About March 11

March 11, 2024 is the 71st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 295 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

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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 324 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.
  • 1649 –
    The Frondeurs and the French sign the Peace of Rueil.
  • 1702 –
    The Daily Courant, England’s first national daily newspaper is published for the first time.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1867 –
    The first performance of Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Paris.
  • 1872 –
    Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
  • 1888 –
    The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
  • 1927 –
    In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
  • 1941 –
    World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
  • 1945 –
    World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2.
  • 1983 –
    Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon.
  • 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.
  • 2006 –
    Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile.
  • 2009 –
    Seventeen are killed in a shooting at a school in Germany.
  • 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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