© Copyright 2022 Day 2 Day History.

Historical Events

11 Mar 1425
BC Thutmose III Pharaoh of Egypt dies (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty).
11 Mar 1502
Ismail I founder of the Safavid dynasty crowned Shah of Persia (rules till 1524)
11 Mar 1567
Geuzen army leaves Walcheren to return to Oosterweel
11 Mar 1649
The Frondeurs (French rebels) and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil.
11 Mar 1665
NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights
11 Mar 1702
1st English daily newspaper Daily Courant publishes
11 Mar 1708
Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation
11 Mar 1744
English auction house Sothebys holds its first ever auction (of books) in London
11 Mar 1779
US Army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)
11 Mar 1791
Samuel Mulliken is 1st to obtain more than one US patent
11 Mar 1823
1st normal school in US opens Concord Academy Concord Vermont
11 Mar 1824
US War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs
11 Mar 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
11 Mar 1850
Womans Medical College of Pennsylvania (1st female medical school)
11 Mar 1861
Confederate convention in Montgomery adopts constitution (US Civil War)
11 Mar 1863
25th Grand National George Stevens wins his 2nd GN aboard 41 Emblem winning mares full sister Emblematic wins the following year
11 Mar 1864
The Great Sheffield Flood the largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield
11 Mar 1867
Giuseppe Verdis opera Don Carlos premieres in Paris
11 Mar 1869
The West first learns of the Giant Panda via French missionary Armand David who receives a skin from a hunter
11 Mar 1872
Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery South Wales begins located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain
11 Mar 1872
The Meiji Japanese government officially annexes the Ryukyu Kingdom into what would become the Okinawa prefecture
11 Mar 1882
Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton New Jersey
11 Mar 1888
Great blizzard of 88 strikes northeastern USA
11 Mar 1892
1st public basketball game (Springfield Massachusetts)
11 Mar 1895
Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks in Straits of Gibraltar over 400 die
11 Mar 1897
A meteorite enters the earths atmosphere and explodes over New Martinsville West Virginia. The debris causes damage but no human injuries are reported.
11 Mar 1901
Cincinnati Enquirer reports Baltimore manager John McGraw signed Cherokee Indian Tokohoma who is really black 2nd baseman Charlie Grant
11 Mar 1904
Stanley Cup Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Brandon Wheat Kings in 2 games
11 Mar 1905
Stanley Cup Ottawa Silver 7 beat Rat Portage Thisles 2 games to 1
11 Mar 1910
Jack Hobbs 1st Test ton (187 v SAfr) his only Test hit wicket
11 Mar 1912
1st Stanley Cup game to be played in 3 20-min periods formerly played in 30-min halfs Quebec beats Moncton 9-3 on way to sweep
11 Mar 1912
Eleftherios Venizelos leader of the Liberal Party wins the Greek elections again.
11 Mar 1915
The British declare a blockade of all German ports
11 Mar 1917
1st NHL championship game ever played Toronto Arenas beats Montreal Canadiens 7-3 in 1st of 2 game set (second game on March 13)
11 Mar 1917
British forces occupy Baghdad the capital of Mesopotamia after Turkish forces evacuated
11 Mar 1918
Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia
11 Mar 1918
First confirmed cases of the Spanish Flu in the US are reported at Fort Riley Kansas
11 Mar 1927
1st armored commercial car hold-up in US Pittsburgh
11 Mar 1927
Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens famous Roxy Theater (NYC)
11 Mar 1930
William Taft US 27th President & Chief Justice buried in Arlington
11 Mar 1931
Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR abbreviated as GTO is introduced in the Soviet Union
11 Mar 1935
Bank of Canada first opens on Wellington Street Ottawa
11 Mar 1938
Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria German troops also entered the country
11 Mar 1942
1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschwitz Concentration Camp
11 Mar 1944
Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested
11 Mar 1945
1000 allied bombers harass Essen 4662 ton bombs
11 Mar 1920
Syria proclaims Emir Feisal king after the country has fought off French domination
11 Mar 1922
Western Hockey Championship Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Regina Capitals in 2 games
11 Mar 1924
Eden Phillpotts Farmers Wife premieres in London
11 Mar 1924
NHL Championship Montreal Canadiens sweeps Ottawa Senators in 2 games
11 Mar 1945
Flemish nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death
11 Mar 1948
WBAL TV channel 11 in Baltimore MD (CBS) begins broadcasting
11 Mar 1956
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
11 Mar 1958
American B-47 accidentally drops nuclear bomb 15000 ft on a family home in Mars Bluff South Carolina creates crater 75 ft across bomb without its nuclear capsule
11 Mar 1958
Charles Van Doren finally loses on US TV game show Twenty-One after winning 129000 - later revealed to be fixed
11 Mar 1958
Starting this season AL batters are required to wear batting helmets
11 Mar 1959
Raisin in the Sun 1st Broadway play by a black woman opens
11 Mar 1959
4th Eurovision Song Contest Teddy Scholten for Netherlands wins singing Een beetje in Cannes
11 Mar 1960
Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth & Venus
11 Mar 1961
Then NHL record 40 penalties Black Hawks & Maple Leafs (20 each)
11 Mar 1963
Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain
11 Mar 1966
A fire at two ski resorts in Numata Japan kills 31 people.
11 Mar 1967
14th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament North Carolina beats Duke 82-73
11 Mar 1968
Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting
11 Mar 1968
Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for Dock of the Bay
11 Mar 1970
12th Grammy Awards Aquarius Crosby Stills & Nash Peggy Lee win
11 Mar 1972
Inner City closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 97 performances
11 Mar 1972
OPEC threatens appropriate sanctions against companies that fail to comply with . . . any action taken by a Member Country in accordance with [OPEC] decisions.
11 Mar 1972
19th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament North Carolina beats Maryland 73-64
11 Mar 1974
Rhino Store gives people 5 cents to take home Danny Bonaduces Album
11 Mar 1975
Rightist military coup in Portugal under General Antnio de Spnola fails
11 Mar 1977
Hanafi Muslims hold 130 hostages in Washington D.C.
11 Mar 1978
Terrorists attack mail truck at Tel Aviv 45 killed
11 Mar 1978
USF-led Bill Cartwright scores 23 points as the Dons oust NC
11 Mar 1979
Randy Hold receives 67 min in penalties in a 60 min NHL hockey game
11 Mar 1980
Rod Marsh bowls 10 overs for 51 runs in dull Aust v Pak cricket draw
11 Mar 1981
Johnny Mize & Rube Foster elected to baseball Hall of Fame
11 Mar 1982
Failed military coup under Rambocus and Hawker in Suriname
11 Mar 1982
Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) resigns rather than face expulsion
11 Mar 1983
Ice Dance Championship at Helsinki Finland won by Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (Great Britain)
11 Mar 1983
Ice Pairs Championship at Helsinki won by Valova & Vasiliev (Soviet Union)
11 Mar 1983
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Rosalynn Sumners (USA)
11 Mar 1983
Mens Figure Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
11 Mar 1984
Christa Johnson wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic
11 Mar 1984
31st ACC Mens Basketball Tournament Maryland beats Duke 74-62
11 Mar 1986
1 million days since the foundation of Rome on April 21st 753 BC
11 Mar 1986
187.27 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
11 Mar 1986
Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halleys Comet at 6.8 million km
11 Mar 1988
British pound note ceases to be legal tender replaced by one pound coin
11 Mar 1990
Maggie Will wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International
11 Mar 1990
37th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament 14 Georgia Tech beats Virginia 70-61
11 Mar 1990
31st SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Alabama beats Ole Miss 70-51
11 Mar 1990
11th Big East Mens Basketball Tournament Connecticut beats Syracuse 78-75
11 Mar 1991
John Smith US amateur wrestler wins James E Sullivan Award
11 Mar 1993
Mens Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by Kurt Browning CAN
11 Mar 1994
Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as President of Chile
11 Mar 1995
-36.8F (-38.2C) in Chosedachar Komi-district on 67N
11 Mar 1995
President Nazarbajev disbands Kazakhstan parliament
11 Mar 1995
Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams arrives in US
11 Mar 1995
Yolanda Chen hop-skip-jumps world indoor record 15.03m
11 Mar 1996
Chris Harris scores 130 in losing NZ side v Australia World Cup
11 Mar 1996
Mark Waugh scores 110 v NZ for his third century of the World Cup
11 Mar 1996
John Winston Howard becomes the 25th Prime Minister of Australia. His term in office is the second longest in Australian history ending December 3 2007.
11 Mar 1997
Ashes of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry are launched into space
11 Mar 1997
San Francisco Giant J T Snow suffers a fractured eye socket when hit by a pitch
11 Mar 1999
Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
11 Mar 2000
21st Big East Mens Basketball Tournament St. Johns beats Connecticut 80-70
11 Mar 2001
48th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament 3 Duke beats 6 North Carolina 79-53
11 Mar 2001
42nd SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Kentucky beats Ole Miss 77-55
11 Mar 2003
The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
11 Mar 2004
Terrorists explode simultaneous bombs on Madrids rail network ripping through a commuter train and rocking three stations killing 190
11 Mar 2006
27th Big East Mens Basketball Tournament Syracuse beats Pittsburgh 65-61
11 Mar 2007
54th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament 8 North Carolina beats NC State 89-80
11 Mar 2007
48th SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Florida beats Arkansas 77-56
11 Mar 2009
Winnenden school shooting - 17 people are killed at a school in Germany.
11 Mar 2010
Sebastin Piera becomes Chilean president
11 Mar 2011
9.0 magnitude earthquake strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai Japan triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people and causing the second worst nuclear accident in history
11 Mar 2012
59th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament 17 Florida State beats 4 North Carolina 85-82
11 Mar 2012
53rd SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Vanderbilt beats Kentucky 71-64
11 Mar 2013
European Union bans the sale of cosmetics that have been tested on animals
11 Mar 2013
North Korea cuts the phone line with South Korea breaching the 1953 armistice
11 Mar 2013
Falkland Islands sovereignty referendum 99.8% choose to remain an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom
11 Mar 2014
Refugees from Syria pour into the Kingdom of Jordan
11 Mar 2017
At least 65 killed in landslide at rubbish dump near Addis Ababa Ethopia
11 Mar 2017
England retains the Six Nations Rugby Championship with 61-21 win over Scotland at Twickenham Englands 11th consecutive Six Nations win and equals NZs record of 18 consecutive international wins
11 Mar 2018
Superhero movie The Black Panther becomes the fifth Marvel movie to earn 1 billion worldwide
11 Mar 2018
Greek football Super League suspended after PAOK Salonikas president Ivan Savvidis invades pitch with a gun after goal disallowed
11 Mar 1850
Womens Medical College of Pennsylvania opens 2nd female medical school in the US
11 Mar 1876
English FA Cup Final Kennington Oval London Wanderers and Old Estonians draw 1-1 Wanderers win replay 3-0 for 3rd title
11 Mar 1905
Stanley Cup Deys Arena Ottawa ON Ottawa Senators beat Rat Portage Thisles 5-4 for 2-1 challenge series victory
11 Mar 1912
First Stanley Cup challenge game to be played in three 20-minute periods (formerly 30-minute halves) Quebec beats Moncton 9-3 on way to series sweep
11 Mar 1956
LPGA Titleholders Championship Womens Golf Augusta CC Louise Suggs wins her 3rd Titleholders title by 1 stroke from Patty Berg
11 Mar 1981
Johnny Mize and Rube Foster are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
11 Mar 2010
Sebastin Piera becomes Chilean president for the 1st time
11 Mar 2011
9.0 magnitude earthquake strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai Japan triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people and causing the second worst nuclear accident in history at Fukushima nuclear plant
11 Mar 2019
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (82) changes his mind saying he will not seek a fifth term and postpones elections after mass protests
11 Mar 1669
Mt Etna in Sicily erupts in its largest recorded eruption killing 15000
11 Mar 1910
Jack Hobbs scores 187 vs South Africa his 1st international test hundred only to get out hit wicket
11 Mar 1926
Eamon da Valera ends leadership of Sinn Fin
11 Mar 1982
Detroit Pistons play the Chicago Bulls with final score of Detroit 152 to Chicago 144 and Detroit having 20 blocked shots
11 Mar 1995
Sinn Fin party leader Gerry Adams arrives in US
11 Mar 2020
Smallest dinosaur ever discovered - skull preserved in piece of amber smaller than a fingertip from a mine in Myanmar reported in Nature
11 Mar 2020
11-year bull market ends as the Dow Jones industrial average falls more than 20% becoming a bear market
11 Mar 2020
NBA suspends 2019-20 season until further notice after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tests positive for COVID-19
11 Mar 1864
Dale Dike on Humber River crumbles killing at least 240 in Sheffield Yorkshire England
11 Mar 1930
William Taft American 27th President & Chief Justice buried in Arlington Cemetery
11 Mar 1959
Lorraine Hansberrys stage drama A Raisin in the Sun 1st Broadway play by a black woman starring Ruby Dee and Sidney Poitier opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre NYC later transfers to the Belasco Theatre runs for 530 performances
11 Mar 1970
12th Grammy Awards Aquarius Crosby Stills & Nash Peggy Lee win
11 Mar 2021
Digital art work Everydays The First 5000 Days a digital college by Beeple with a non-fungible token sells for record 69.3 million in online auction by Christies [1]
11 Mar 1918
Conservationists John Merriam Madison Grant and Henry Fairfield Osborn found Save the Redwoods League - a non-profit forest conservation land trust in San Francisco California founded
11 Mar 1964
21st Golden Globes The Cardinal Sidney Poitier & Leslie Caron win
11 Mar 2003
Nicholas Winton (93) former British stockbroker who helped 669 young Jews flee Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Nazi invasion in 1939 receives knighthood from Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace
11 Mar 1597
Albert VII Archduke of Austria occupies Amiens France
11 Mar 1876
English FA Cup Final Kennington Oval London Wanderers and Old Etonians draw 1-1 Wanderers win replay 3-0 for 3rd title
11 Mar 1930
Hans Luther is appointed as president of the Reichsbank.
11 Mar 1964
Gene Roddenberry brings together a 16-page pitch for the original Star Trek series
11 Mar 1972
OPEC threatens appropriate sanctions against companies that fail to comply with ... any action taken by a Member Country in accordance with [OPEC] decisions.
11 Mar 1986
1 million days since the foundation of Rome on April 21 753 BC
11 Mar 1502
Founder of the Safavid dynasty Ismail I is crowned Shah of Persia (rules till 1524)
11 Mar 1895
Boston opens its palace for the people Boston Public Librarys McKim Building in Copley Square designed by Charles Follen McKim - the first major Beaux Arts building in the US [1]
11 Mar 1927
1st armored commercial car hold-up in US (Pittsburgh Pennsylvania)
11 Mar 1990
Lithuania declares its Independence from the Soviet Union
11 Mar 2005
Miguel Rodrguez Orejuela co-founder of the Cali Cartel is extradited to the United States
11 Mar 2023
Chinas government appoints Li Qiang a close ally of President Xi Jinping as the countrys new Premier [1]
11 Mar 2024
Fertilizer spill in Red Oak Iowa kills an estimated 789000 fish along a 60-mile stretch of river after valve was left open at NEW Cooperative [1]
11 Mar 2024
Romanian police detain Andrew Tate and his brother following the prosecutor of the Bucharest Court of Appeals order for a one-day detention
11 Mar 1702
First English daily newspaper Daily Courant is published
11 Mar 1791
Samuel Mulliken is the first to obtain more than one US patent
11 Mar 1901
Cincinnati Enquirer reports Baltimore manager John McGraw signed Cherokee Indian Tokohoma who is really black second baseman Charlie Grant
11 Mar 1904
Stanley Cup Ottawa Silver Sevens beat Brandon Wheat City 2-0 at the Aberdeen Pavilion Ottawa for a 2 game sweep and back-to-back titles
11 Mar 1917
1st NHL championship game Toronto Arenas defeat Montreal Canadiens 7-3 in the first of a two-game set (second game is on March 13)
11 Mar 1957
Charles Van Doren finally loses on the US TV game show Twenty-One after winning 129000 later revealed to be fixed
11 Mar 1974
Rhino Records store in Claremont California offers customers 5 cents to take home Partridge Family actor Danny Bonaduces debut solo album
11 Mar 1988
British pound note ceases to be legal tender replaced by one-pound coin
11 Mar 2011
9.0 magnitude earthquake strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai Japan triggering a tsunami that kills thousands and causes the second worst nuclear accident in history at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant
11 Mar 2025
132-year old shipwreck rediscovered in Lake Superior of steel streamer The Great Western which sank in 1892 with the loss of 27 lives [1]
11 Mar 2025
Astronomers announce the discovery of 128 new moons orbiting the planet Saturn bring the planets total to 274 moons [1]
11 Mar 2025
NASAs space telescope the Spherex observatory is launched by SpaceX from California to study how galaxies are formed by observing their cosmic glow [1]
11 Mar 2025
Pakistani Jaffa Express train hijacked by the Balochistan Liberation Army travelling from Quetta to Peshawar - results in a 30-hour siege and the deaths of over 50 people [1]
11 Mar 2025
World Air Quality Report identifies Byrnihat India as the worlds most polluted city with Chad Bangladesh Pakistan the Democratic Republic of Congo and India the most polluted countries [1]