March 11th
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Contenido March 11 is the 70th (seventieth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 71stᵉʳ in leap years. There are 295 days left to end the year.
Events
- 222: The emperor Heliogabalo is killed by his mother Julia Soemia Basiana, for his pretorian guard during the rebellion. Their mutilated bodies are strolled through the streets of Rome before being thrown into the River Tiber.
- 1387: In Castagnaro, Italy, Padua's army (leadered by the British condottire John Hawkwood) defeats Verona's army in the battle of Castagnaro.
- 1431: Pedro García de Herrera, Marshal of Castile, conquers the village of Jimena de la Frontera, until that time under Nasrid domination (although during the centuryXV changed hands several times between Muslims and Christians.
- 1513: In Rome begins the pontificate of Pope Leo X.
- 1526: In a room of the Royal Alcázar of Seville, King Charles I and Isabel of Portugal are married, in a ceremony offered by Cardinal Salviati, the legacy of Pope Clement VII.
- 1641: In the Rock of Mbororé (now Argentina), the Guaraní Indians who lived in the Jesuit missions beat the bandeirantes (Portuguese slaves after the separation of Portugal from Spain) in the battle of Mbororé.
- 1702: London is published The Daily Courantthe first daily newspaper of British history.
- 1784: The Treaty of Mangalore is signed by the Second Anglo-Mysore War.
- 1811: During the retreat of André Masséna from the lines of Torres Vedras, a division led by the French Marshal Michel Ney struggle with an Anglo-Portuguese combined force to give time to Masséna to escape.
- 1848: Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the prime ministers of the province of Canada for being democratically elected under a semi-autonomous system.
- 1851: in Venice it is serene Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi.
- 1854: In Mexico, in Acapulco, Ignacio Comonfort reformed the Ayutla Plan proclaimed days earlier.
- 1861: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is approved in the framework of the War of Secession.
- 1864: 13 km from the city of Sheffield (center-north of England) breaks the dale dyke dam the first time it was filled (it was under construction since 1859). In the violent flood of the valley 244 people died. Complaints for sinisters created the largest claim for insurance in the Victorian period.
- 1867: in Paris the opera is premiered Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi.
- 1872: In Japan, the Meiji dynasty annexes the Ryukyu kingdom into what would become the Okinawa prefecture.
- 1888: In New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut, the 1888 Great Snowstorm begins, with winds of 72 km/h. In the next three days more than 120 cm will fall, making people locked in their homes for a week.
- 1900: In the province of Almería, Spain, the Monte de Piedad and Caja de Ahorros de Almería was founded, in activity until its integration into Unicaja in 1991.
- 1917: Venustiano Carranza is elected president of Mexico.
- 1938: In Austria, by pressure of Adolf Hitler, Kurt Schuschnigg, Chancellor of Austria resigns.
- 1942: In the Philippines—in the framework of the Second World War—American General Douglas MacArthur abandons Correction.
- 1945: In the framework of the Second World War, the Japanese imperial navy launches a large-scale attack of kamikaze planes against the American navy anchored in the Ulithi atoll.
- 1945: In the context of World War II, the German city of Essen is bombarded with 4660 tons of bombs that produced 897 fatalities. Essen was bombarded a total of 272 times throughout the war.
- 1951: In New Delhi, India, the First Asian Games are completed.
- 1953: in the United States, a tornado of 230 km/h azota Texas leaving 114 dead.
- 1958: in the unpopulated area of Mars Bluff (South Carolina) an unarmed atomic bomb (without fissile material) accidentally falls from a United States Air Force plane at 4500 m altitude. The fall produced the detonation of its 3447 kg of conventional explosives, which created a crater of 23 m in diameter and 10 m in depth, destroyed several houses and injured a family. (See article Explosion of an atomic bomb in Mars Bluff).
- 1964: in Venezuela, Raúl Leoni took office as president.
- 1971: in Gualliguaica, Chile; There is a rail accident with a balance of 12 dead. known as the Gualliguaica Railway Accident.
- 1973: In Argentina, after rising the proscription against Peronism (vigent since 18 years ago), the Peronist doctor Héctor Cámpora triumphed in the presidential elections of March.
- 1976: in Salta, Argentina, eleven days before the coup against constitutional president Isabel Martínez de Perón, the ultra-conservative terrorist paramilitary band Triple A kidnapped, tortured and murdered doctor Miguel Ragone, a former Peronist governor.
- 1985: in the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev came to the presidency.
- 1990: Lithuania is separated from the Soviet Union.
- 1990: in Chile, Patricio Aylwin, he became the first president elected by universal suffrage, since the Assumption of Salvador Allende in 1970. This also ends the current civil-military regime since the 1973 coup, giving way to the current historical era to the present.
- 1994: in Chile, Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle assumes the presidency
- 1996: In Australia, John Howard assumes as prime minister.
- 1997: In Japan the Tokaimura nuclear accident occurred.
- 1998: In Santiago de Chile, the ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet swears as "vital sever" (which will give him impunity for life to be tried for his crimes), which causes an escalation of violence.
- 2000: in Chile, Ricardo Lagos Escobar assumes the presidency.
- 2003: The International Criminal Tribunal is constituted in The Hague.
- 2004: At the Atocha-Cercanías, El Pozo del Uncle Raimundo and Santa Eugenia stations in Madrid, Spain, the attacks of 11 March 2004 are carried out, resulting in 192 deaths and more than 1800 injuries.
- 2006: in Chile, Michelle Bachelet assumes the presidency, becoming the first woman elected president in the country.
- 2008: in Argentina, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, announced a new plan of mobile retentions applied to soy and corn, causing the reaction of the agricultural sectors that decree a strike that will last 100 days.
- 2010: in Chile, the businessman Sebastian Piñera assumes the presidency, becoming the first president (from the return to democracy in 1990) of the political spectrum of Right democratically elected in that country since 1958.
- 2010: In Chile, there are three consecutive earthquakes of 7.8°, 7.6° and 6.2° replicas of the earthquake of 27 February. These earthquakes occurred during the ceremony of change of command of President Michelle Bachelet to Sebastián Piñera.
- 2011: in Japan, an earthquake of magnitude 90.0 degrees at 130 km from the coast causes a tsunami that averts the northeastern coast of the country, causing directly 15 836 victims, 3650 disappeared and the Fukushima I nuclear accident, one of the most serious in history.
- 2012: In Haiti again the Summer Timetable is established after not being since 2006, watches pass from UTC-5 to UTC-4, was established to optimize energy consumption and presidential decree was issued for change of time.
- 2013: the armistice between North and South Korea is no longer valid.
- 2014: The Republic of Crimea declares its independence.
- 2014: In Chile, Michelle Bachelet assumes the presidency, retaking this position since he left it in 2010.
- 2018: in Chile he assumes the presidency Sebastián Piñera for the second time, returning to the position of president after Bachelet.
- 2020: WHO declares COVID-19 (Coronavirus) as a pandemic. At that time, 118 000 cases were reported in 114 countries, and 4291 persons had lost their lives.
- 2022: In Chile he assumes the presidency Gabriel Boric, becoming the youngest president in the history of that country to take office with 36 years of age. The beginning of its mandate marks the end of the period of the 4 alternate governments between Bachelet and Piñera that ruled Chile for 16 years, between 2006 and 2022.
- 2022: After the victory of San Antonio Spurs over Utah Jazz by 104-102, Gregg Popovich surpassed the 1335 cotejos won by Don Nelson and became the coach with the most victories in the history of the NBA (1336).
Births
- 1544: Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (f. 1595).
- 1725: Henry Benedict Stuart, a pretender to the British Crown (f. 1807).
- 1726: José Solano and Bote, a Spanish military officer (f. 1806).
- 1754: Juan Meléndez Valdés, a Spanish poet (f. 1817).
- 1763: José Miguel Pey, a Colombian politician (f. 1838).
- 1808: Agustín Morales, Bolivian military and political, president of Bolivia between 1871 and 1872 (f. 1872).
- 1811: Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician (f. 1877).
- 1818: Marius Petipa, French dancer and choreographer (f. 1910).
- 1821: Cándido Nocedal, a Spanish politician (f. 1885).
- 1822: Joseph Louis François Bertrand, French mathematician (f. 1900).
- 1827: Édouard Piette, French historian and archaeologist (f. 1906).
- 1842: Leandro N. Alem, Argentine politician, founder of the Radical Civic Union (f. 1896).
- 1843: Barata Ribeiro, doctor, politician and Brazilian writer, first prefect of the city of Rio de Janeiro. (f. 1910).
- 1846: Constance Bache, pianist, composer and British writer (f. 1903).
- 1850: Clément Duval, French anarchist (f. 1935).
- 1858: William Cassels, British Anglican missionary (f. 1925).
- 1869: Angel Amor Ruibal, philosopher, linguist and Spanish theologian, precursor of linguistic thought (f. 1930).
- 1870: Louis Bachelier, French mathematician (f. 1946).
- 1872: K. C. Groom, British writer (f. 1954).
- 1875: Narcissus Alonso Cortés, a Vallisolene poet, researcher and historian of literature (f. 1972).
- 1876: Panchito Gómez Toro, Cuban military, son of Máximo Gómez and assistant of Antonio Maceo. (f. 1896).
- 1876: Carl Ruggles, American composer (f. 1971).
- 1885: Malcolm Campbell, British racing pilot (f. 1948).
- 1887: Raoul Walsh, American filmmaker (f. 1980).
- 1890: Vannevar Bush, American engineer and scientist (f. 1974).
- 1895: Shemp Howard, American actor and comedian, of the Three Chiflates (f. 1955).
- 1897: Henry Cowell, American composer (f. 1965).
- 1898: Dorothy Gish, American actress (f. 1968).
- 1899: Frederick IX, Danish king (f. 1972).
- 1905: Héctor Sgarbi, Uruguayan sculptor and politician (f. 1982).
- 1907: José María Peñaranda, Colombian composer (f. 2006).
- 1907: Jessie Matthews, British actress (f. 1981).
- 1910: Robert Havemann, German chemist (f. 1982).
- 1912: Xavier Montsalvatge, Spanish composer (f. 2002).
- 1914: Pedro Escudero, cineasta, theatrical director and Argentine screenwriter (f. 1989).
- 1914: Alvaro del Portillo, Spanish priest of Opus Dei (f. 1994).
- 1915: Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, American computer (f. 1990).
- 1916: Harold Wilson, British Prime Minister between 1964 and 1970 (f. 1995).
- 1919: Mercer Ellington, musician, composer and American jazz arranger (f. 1996).
- 1919: Kira Nikolaevna Golovko, a Soviet film and theatre actress (f. 2007).
- 1920: Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch physicist and professor, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1981 (f. 2017).
- 1920: Ben Ferencz, American attorney, jurist and prosecutor.
- 1921: Ástor Piazzolla, Argentine composer and bandoneonist (f. 1992).
- 1921: Frank Harary, American mathematician (f. 2005).
- 1922: Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek philosopher expatriated in France (f. 1997).
- 1922: José Luis López Vázquez, Spanish actor (f. 2009).
- 1922: Tun Abdul Razak Hussein, Prime Minister Malay (f. 1976).
- 1923: Alice von Hildebrand, philosopher, writer, university professor and Belgian-American Catholic theologian (f. 2022).
- 1925: Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, biologist, chemistry and American bioinformatics (f. 1983).
- 1926: Ralph David Abernathy, an American civil rights activist (f. 1990).
- 1927: Josep Maria Subirachs, Catalan painter and sculptor (f. 2014).
- 1927: Freda Meissner-Blau, an Austrian environmental activist (f. 2015).
- 1928: Albert Salmi, American actor (f. 1990).
- 1929: Ubaldo de Lío, guitarist and Argentine composer of tango (f. 2012).
- 1931: Rupert Murdoch, an American entrepreneur born in Australia.
- 1931: Janosch, Silesian writer and cartoonist.
- 1933: Sandra Milo, Italian actress.
- 1935: Nancy Kovack, American classic film actress.
- 1936: Antonin Scalia, American jurist (f. 2016).
- 1936: Orestes Omar Corbatta, Argentine footballer (f. 1991).
- 1936: Hollis Frampton, American filmmaker.[chuckles]required]
- 1936: Harald zur Hausen, German scientist, nobel prize for physiology in 2008.
- 1937: Carlos Larrañaga, Spanish actor (f. 2012)..
- 1940: Alberto Cortez, Argentine composer and singer (f. 2019).
- 1942: Paul Leduc, director of Mexican cinema (f. 2020).
- 1943: Arturo Merzario, Italian motor racing driver.
- 1945: Pirri, footballer and Spanish doctor.
- 1945: José Mari Chan, Filipino singer.
- 1947: Tristan Murail, French composer.
- 1948: César Gerónimo, Dominican baseball player.
- 1948: Jim McMillian, American basketball player (f. 2016).
- 1948: Dominique Sanda, French actress and model.
- 1950: Bobby McFerrin, American singer.
- 1950: Jerry Zucker, American filmmaker.
- 1951: Steve David, footballer trinitense.
- 1952: Douglas Adams, British novelist (f. 2001).
- 1952: Ricardo Martinelli, Panamanian politician, president of Panama between 2009 and 2014.
- 1953: László Bölöni, Romanian footballer.
- 1953: Derek Daly, Irish motor racing pilot.
- 1955: Nina Hagen, German singer.
- 1956: Rob Paulsen, an American voice actor.
- 1957: Qasem Soleimani, Iranian military (f. 2020).
- 1957: Víctor Rangel, Mexican footballer.
- 1958: Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer, Iraqi politician, Acting President.
- 1959: Leave Stojanović, a Serbian-American writer, philosopher and journalist.
- 1959: Manuel Negrete, soccer player, coach and Mexican politician.
- 1961: Elias Koteas, a Canadian actor.
- 1962: Abdullahi Mohamed, Somali diplomat and politician, President of Somalia between 2017 and 2022.
- 1963: Fernando Guillén Cuervo, Spanish actor.
- 1963: Alex Kingston, British actress.
- 1964: Peter Berg, American filmmaker.
- 1964: Leena Lehtolainen, a Finnish writer.
- 1964: Vinnie Paul, American musician, of the Pantera band (f. 2018).
- 1964: Shane Richie, British actor.
- 1965: Juanchi Baleirón, Argentine singer, of the band Los Pericos.
- 1965: Wallace Langham, American actor.
- 1965: Emilia Mazer, an Argentine actress.
- 1966: Shurik'N, French rapper.
- 1967: Cynthia Klitbo, Mexican actress.
- 1967: John Barrowman, Scottish actor.
- 1967: Renzo Gracie, Brazilian mixed martial arts wrestler.
- 1968: Lisa Loeb, American singer.
- 1969: Terrence Howard, American actor.
- 1971: Osqui Guzmán, an Argentine actor.
- 1971: Johnny Knoxville, American actor and double.
- 1972: Benjamin Diamond, French singer.
- 1972: Solomon Torres, Dominican baseball player.
- 1973: Martin Hiden, Australian footballer.
- 1973: Tomasz Rząsa, Polish footballer.
- 1973: Vedin Musić, Bosnian footballer.
- 1974: Bobby Abreu, Venezuelan baseball player.
- 1976: Maximilian of the Cross, actor, humorist and Uruguayan television driver.
- 1976: Thomas Gravesen, Danish footballer.
- 1976: Javier Casquero, footballer and Spanish coach.
- 1977: Andre Nickatina, American rapper.
- 1977: Becky Hammon, American ex-ballooncestist and current coach.
- 1978: Albert Luque, Spanish footballer.
- 1978: Christopher Rice, American writer.
- 1978: Didier Drogba, retired ivory footballer.
- 1979: Elton Brand, American basketball player.
- 1979: Fred Jones, American basketball player.
- 1979: Mirko Savini, footballer and Italian coach.
- 1979: Gueorgui Péyev, Bulgarian footballer.
- 1979: Arturo Sanhueza, Chilean footballer.
- 1979: Jassim Mohammed Ghulam, an Iraqi footballer.
- 1979: Benji and Joel Madden, American singer and guitarist, by Good Charlotte.
- 1980: Paul Scharner, Austrian footballer.
- 1981: David Anders, American actor.
- 1981: Russell Lissack, British musician, from the Bloc Party band.
- 1981: LeToya Luckett, American singer, founder of the Destiny's Child band.
- 1981: Paul Wall, American rapper and DJ.
- 1982: Thora Birch, American actress.
- 1982: Patrícia Araújo, pornographic Brazilian transgender (f. 2019).
- 1985: Armando Panceri, Argentine footballer.
- 1986: Mariko Shinoda, Japanese actress, singer and model.
- 1987: Alec Dufty, American footballer.
- 1988: Fábio Coentrão, Portuguese footballer.
- 1989: Anton Yelchin, Russian actor (f. 2016).
- 1991: Jack Rodwell, British footballer.
- 1991: Alessandro Florenzi, Italian footballer.
- 1992: Sacha Parkinson, British actress.
- 1992: Nao Tōyama, Japanese voice actress.
- 1992: Manuel Senni, Italian actress.
- 1993: Jodie Comer, British actress.
- 1994: Andrew Robertson, Scottish footballer.
- 1997: Matreya Fedor, Canadian actress.
Deaths
- 222: Heliogabalo, Roman emperor (n. about 203).
- 222: Julia Soemia Basiana, mother of the emperor Heliogabalo (n. 180).
- 859: Eulogio de Córdoba, lérigo mozárabe (n. 800).
- 1198: Mary of France, patrons and French aristocrat (n. 1145).
- 1275: Bohemundo VI, prince of Antioch (n. 1237).
- 1486: Alberto III Achilles, German aristocrat (n. 1414).
- 1514: Donato Bramante, Italian architect (n. 1444).
- 1514: Carlotta de Albret, Lady of Châlus and Duchess Valentinois (n. 1480).
- 1575: Flacio Illirico, Croatian reformist (n. 1520).
- 1602: Emilio de'Cavalieri, Italian composer (n. 1550).
- 1607: Giovanni María Nanino, Italian composer (n. 1544).
- 1722: John Toland, Irish philosopher (n. 1670).
- 1820: Benjamin West, American painter (n. 1738).
- 1841: José de Fábrega, a Panamanian military man, sought the independence of his country (n. 1774).
- 1845: Johnny Appleseed, American acronym (n. 1774).
- 1857: Manuel José Quintana, a Spanish writer (n. 1772).
- 1858: Tomás Roda Rodríguez, Spanish bishop (n. 1779).
- 1869: Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher (n. 1803).
- 1874: Charles Sumner, American politician (n. 1811).
- 1898: Tigran Chukhacheán, Armenian composer (n. 1837).
- 1898: William Rosecrans, American General (n. 1819).
- 1907: Jean Casimir-Perier, a French politician (n. 1847).
- 1908: Edmundo de Amicis, Italian writer (n. 1846).
- 1920: Julio Garavito Armero, astronomer and Colombian economist (n. 1865).
- 1925: José María del Canto Arteaga, Chilean military (n. 1840).
- 1926: Usui Mikao, Japanese mystic, creator of Reiki (n. 1865).
- 1931: F. W. Murnau, German filmmaker (n. 1888).
- 1936: David Beatty, British Admiral (n. 1871).
- 1942: Enric Morera i Viura, Spanish composer (n. 1865).
- 1949: Anastasios Charalabis, general and Greek politician (n. 1862).
- 1949: Henri Giraud, French military (n. 1879).
- 1950: Heinrich Mann, German writer (n. 1871).
- 1952: Pierre Renoir (66), French film and theatre actor (n. 1885).
- 1955: Alexander Fleming, British biologist (n. 1881).
- 1955: Oscar Mayer, American businessman (n. 1859).
- 1957: Richard E. Byrd, an American explorer who falsely claimed to have overflew the poles (n. 1888).
- 1958: Ole Kirk Christiansen, inventor of Legos (n. 1891).
- 1960: Roy Chapman Andrews, American explorer (n. 1884).
- 1967: Francisco Petrone, Argentine actor (n. 1902).
- 1967: Geraldine Farrar, American singer and actress (n. 1882).
- 1969: John Wyndham, British writer (n. 1903).
- 1970: Erle Stanley Gardner, American writer (n. 1889).
- 1972: Fredric Brown, American writer (n. 1906).
- 1977: Alberto Rodríguez Larreta, Argentine racing pilot (n. 1934).
- 1978: Claude François, French singer (n. 1939).
- 1980: Julio de Caro, Argentine composer (n. 1899).
- 1982: Horace Gregory, American poet, translator, and academic (n. 1898).
- 1986: Sonny Terry, American blues musician (n. 1911).
- 1989: John J. McCloy, American lawyer and banker (n. 1895).
- 1991: Maria Reining, Austrian soprano (n. 1903).
- 1991: Rafael Santa Cruz, Peruvian bullfighter (n. 1928).
- 1992: Richard Brooks, American filmmaker (n. 1912).
- 1992: Joaquín Satrústegui, a Spanish lawyer and politician (n. 1909).
- 1997: Uncle Johnny, child animator and Peruvian television presenter (n. 1936).
- 1998: Manuel Piñeiro, Cuban politician and military (n. 1933).
- 2000: René Cóspito, a musician and an Argentine actor (n. 1905).
- 2000: Laureano López Rodó, a Spanish politician (n. 1920).
- 2001: Eugenio Jofra Bofarull, Spanish humorist (n. 1941).
- 2001: Raúl Calviño, Argentinian locutor (n. 1934).
- 2001: Pedro Quetglas Ferrer "Xam", cultural promoter, educator, as well as cartoonist, cartoonist, posterist, engraver and Spanish painter (n. 1915).
- 2002: Rudolf Hell, inventor and German engineer (n. 1901).
- 2002: James Tobin, American economist (n. 1918).
- 2005: Karen Wynn Fonstad, British illustrator (n. 1945).
- 2006: Slobodan Milošević, a Serbian politician (n. 1941).
- 2006: Jesús Rollán, Spanish waterpolista (n. 1968).
- 2006: José Luis Martínez Sansalvador, actor, director, and Spanish bent adjuster (n. 1933).
- 2007: Betty Hutton, American actress (n. 1921).
- 2016: Keith Emerson, musician, pianist and British composer (n. 1944).
- 2017: Angel Parra, Chilean singer (n. 1943).
- 2018: Alba Arnova, Argentinean actress and dancer (n. 1930).
- 2018: Baltasar Corrada del Río, politician and Puerto Rican jurist (n. 1935).
- 2018: Mario Vegetti, Italian historian (n. 1937).
- 2020: Javier Hervada, philosopher of law, iustheric and Spanish canonist (n. 1934).
- 2020: Raúl Ordóñez, Colombian tennis player (n. 1968).
- 2021: Luis Palau, evangelist, lecturer and Argentine writer (n. 1934).
- 2021: Florentín Giménez, Paraguayan composer and concertist (n. 1925).
- 2022: Gerardo Rozín, journalist, producer and presenter of Argentine radio and television (n. 1970).
- 2022: Rupiah Banda, a Zambian politician, president of Zambia between 2008 and 2011 (n. 1937).
Celebrations
Catholic saints list
- San Pionio de Esmirna, priest and martyr (f. c. 250)
- Saints Trophy and Tale of Laodiceamartyrs (s. IV)
- St. Constantine of ScotlandKing and martyr (s. VI)
- Saint Vincent de Leónabad (f. 630)
- Saint Sophronium of Jerusalem, bishop (f. 639)
- San Vidiciano de Cambrai, bishop (f. c. 712)
- San Benito de Milan, bishop (f. 725)
- San Oengo de Tallaght “Culdeo”, monk (f. c. 824)
- San Eulogio de Córdoba, priest and martyr (f. 859)
- Blessed John the Baptist of Fabriano Righi, priest (f. 1539)
- Blessed Thomas Atkinson, priest and martyr (f. 1616)
- Blessed Juan Kearney, priest and martyr (f. 1653)
- Holy Sunday, priest and martyr (f. 1859)
- Saint Mark Chng Ui-ba and Alejo U Se-yongmartyrs (f. 1866)
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