On This Day in History - March 11 |
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| What Happened On This Day In History - March 11 |
1702 March 11
1702-03-11
The Daily Courant, England's first national daily newspaper is published for the first time.
1824 March 11
1824-03-11
The United States Department of War creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
1845 March 11
1845-03-11
The Flagstaff War: Unhappy with translational differences regarding the Treaty of Waitangi, chiefs Hone Heke, Kawiti and M?ori tribe members chop down the British flagpole for a fourth time and drive settlers out of Kororareka, New Zealand.
1851 March 11
1851-03-11
The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice.
1861 March 11
1861-03-11
American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
1864 March 11
1864-03-11
The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield.
1917 March 11
1917-03-11
World War I: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
1931 March 11
1931-03-11
Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union.
1983 March 11
1983-03-11
Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon.
1985 March 11
1985-03-11
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1990 March 11
1990-03-11
Lithuania declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1999 March 11
1999-03-11
Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
2003 March 11
2003-03-11
The International Criminal Court was founded in The Hague.
2004 March 11
2004-03-11
Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 191 people.
2006 March 11
2006-03-11
Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile.
2011 March 11
2011-03-11
An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) 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.
