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

  • 222 –
    Emperor Elagabalus is assassinated, along with his mother, Julia Soaemias, by the Praetorian Guard during a revolt. Their mutilated bodies are dragged through the streets of Rome before being thrown into the Tiber.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1851 –
    The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice.
  • 1864 –
    The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield.
  • 1867 –
    The first performance of Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Paris.
  • 1872 –
    The Meiji Japanese government officially annexes the Ryukyu Kingdom into what would become the Okinawa prefecture.
  • 1927 –
    In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
  • 1931 –
    Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union.
  • 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.
  • 1978 –
    Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Al Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel’s Operation Litani.
  • 1985 –
    Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  • 1990 –
    Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
  • 1999 –
    Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
  • 2004 –
    Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 191 people.
  • 2006 –
    Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile.
  • 2009 –
    Seventeen are killed in a shooting at a school in Germany.

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