About March 11
March 11, 2025 is the 70th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 295 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 343 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 11
- 1387 –Battle of Castagnaro: English condottiero Sir John Hawkwood leads Padova to victory in a factional clash with Verona.
- 1702 –The Daily Courant, England’s first national daily newspaper is published for the first time.
- 1708 –Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
- 1784 –The signing of the Treaty of Mangalore brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end.
- 1811 –During André Masséna’s retreat from the Lines of Torres Vedras, a division led by French Marshal Michel Ney fights off a combined Anglo-Portuguese force to give Masséna time to escape.
- 1824 –The United States Department of War creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
- 1845 –The Flagstaff War: Unhappy with translational differences regarding the Treaty of Waitangi, chiefs Hone Heke, Kawiti and Māori tribe members chop down the British flagpole for a fourth time and drive settlers out of Kororareka, New Zealand.
- 1848 –Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.
- 1851 –The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice.
- 1861 –American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
- 1864 –The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield.
- 1977 –The 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege: more than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations.
- 1985 –Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- 1990 –Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
- 1990 –Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970.
- 1993 –Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
- 1999 –Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
- 2007 –Russian helicopters reportedly attack the Kodori Valley in Abkhazia, an accusation that Russia categorically denies later.
- 2010 –Economist and businessman Sebastián Piñera is sworn in as President of Chile, while three earthquakes, the strongest measuring magnitude 6.9 and all centered next to Pichilemu, capital of Cardenal Caro Province, hit central Chile during the ceremony.
- 2011 –An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
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