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Events on the 11th of March in history

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11 Mar 0222 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.
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11 Mar 0417 Zosimus becomes bishop of Rome
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11 Mar 0537 Goths lay siege to Rome
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11 Mar 0843 Icon worship officially re-instated in Aya Sofia Constantinople
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11 Mar 1302 Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare
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11 Mar 1387 Battle of Castagnaro: English condottiero Sir John Hawkwood leads Padova to victory in a factional clash with Verona.
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11 Mar 1502 Tebriz shah Ismail I of Persia crowned
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11 Mar 1513 Giovanni de' Medici chosen Pope Leo X
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11 Mar 1563 League of High Nobles routes 2nd protest against King Philip II
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11 Mar 1567 Geuzen army leaves Walcheren to return to Oosterweel
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11 Mar 1597 Land guardian Albrecht occupies Amiens on France
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11 Mar 1598 Countess Charlotte of Nassau marries duke Claude de la Tremoille
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11 Mar 1641 Guaraní forces living in the Jesuit reductions defeat bandeirantes loyal to the Portuguese Empire at the Battle of Mbororé in present-day Panambí, Argentina.
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11 Mar 1649 The Frondeurs and the French sign the Peace of Rueil.
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11 Mar 1649 Treaty of Rueil destroys 1st Fronde-uprising
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11 Mar 1665 New York approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights
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11 Mar 1669 Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000
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11 Mar 1702 1st English daily newspaper "Daily Courant, " publishes
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11 Mar 1702 The Daily Courant, England's first national daily newspaper is published for the first time.
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11 Mar 1708 Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
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11 Mar 1779 US army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)
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11 Mar 1784 The signing of the Treaty of Mangalore brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end.
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11 Mar 1789 Benjamin Banneker with L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington DC
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11 Mar 1791 Samuel Mulliken, Philadelphia PA, is 1st to obtain more than 1 US patent
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11 Mar 1794 Royal Theatre in London's Dury Lane opens
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11 Mar 1795 Battle at Kurdla India: Mahratten beat Mogols
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11 Mar 1810 Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise
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11 Mar 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.
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11 Mar 1812 Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews
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11 Mar 1823 1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vermont
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11 Mar 1824 The United States Department of War creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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11 Mar 1824 US War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs
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11 Mar 1835 HMS Beagle anchors off Valparaiso, Chile
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11 Mar 1845 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.
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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.
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11 Mar 1850 Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania (1st female medical school)
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11 Mar 1851 The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice.
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11 Mar 1851 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" premieres in Venice
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11 Mar 1861 American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
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11 Mar 1861 Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution
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11 Mar 1862 General Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia Army of the Potomac. General Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief
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11 Mar 1862 Lincoln removes McClellen as general-in-chief and makes him head of
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11 Mar 1862 General Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia
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11 Mar 1862 Lincoln removes McClellen as general-in-chief & makes him head of Army of the Potomac. Gen Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief
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11 Mar 1864 The Great Sheffield Flood kills 238 people in Sheffield, England.
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11 Mar 1864 Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee
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11 Mar 1865 General Sherman's Union forces occupy Fayetteville NC
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11 Mar 1867 The first performance of Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Paris.
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11 Mar 1867 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Don Carlos" premieres in Paris France
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11 Mar 1867 Great Mauna Loa eruption (Hawaiian volcano)
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11 Mar 1872 Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
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11 Mar 1879 Shō Tai formally abdicated his position of King of Ryūkyū, under orders from Tokyo, ending the Ryukyu Kingdom
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11 Mar 1882 Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton, New Jersey
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11 Mar 1888 The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
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11 Mar 1888 Great blizzard of '88 strikes northeast US
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11 Mar 1892 1st public basketball game (Springfield, Massachusetts)
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11 Mar 1895 Spanish cruiser Reina Regenta sinks at Gibraltar, 400 killed
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11 Mar 1901 Cincinnati Enquirer reports Baltimore manager John McGraw signed Cherokee Indian Tokohoma, who is really black 2nd baseman Charlie Grant
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11 Mar 1904 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Brandon Wheat Kings in 2 games
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11 Mar 1905 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 beat Rat Portage Thisles, 2 games to 1
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11 Mar 1910 Jack Hobbs 1st Test ton (187 vs. South Africa), his only Test hit wicket
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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
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11 Mar 1912 1st Stanley Cup game to be played in 3 20-minute periods, formerly played in 30-minute halfs, Qu
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11 Mar 1916 USS Nevada (BB-36) is commissioned as the first US Navy "super-dreadnought".
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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)
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11 Mar 1917 World War I: Mesopotamian campaign: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
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11 Mar 1917 1st NHL championship game ever played, Toronto Arenas beats Montr
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11 Mar 1917 British troops occupy Baghdad
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11 Mar 1918 The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
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11 Mar 1918 Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia
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11 Mar 1918 Save the Redwoods League founded
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11 Mar 1919 General strike in Germany, crushed
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11 Mar 1922 Western Hockey Championship: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Regina Capitals, in 2 games
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11 Mar 1924 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweeps Ottawa Senators in 2 games
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11 Mar 1924 3rd term of Belgium Theunis government begins
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11 Mar 1924 Eden Phillpotts' "Farmer's Wife" premieres in London
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11 Mar 1924 NHL Championship: Montr
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11 Mar 1926 Eamon da Valera ends leadership of Sinn Fein
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11 Mar 1927 In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
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11 Mar 1927 1st armored commercial car hold-up in US, Pittsburgh
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11 Mar 1927 1st golden gloves tournament
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11 Mar 1927 Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens famous Roxy Theater (New York NY)
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11 Mar 1928 Netherlands & Belgium tie 1-1 (soccer match in Amsterdam)
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11 Mar 1930 President & Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington
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11 Mar 1931 Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union.
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11 Mar 1932 Booming Ben, the last heath hen was seen for the final time.
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11 Mar 1933 Ground breaking musical film 42nd Street is released.
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11 Mar 1934 Netherlands beats Belgium 9-3, in soccer
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11 Mar 1935 Bank of Canada opens
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11 Mar 1935 Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe
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11 Mar 1938 Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria; German troops also entered the country
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11 Mar 1938 Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria
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11 Mar 1938 German troops enter Austria
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11 Mar 1941 World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
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11 Mar 1941 Bronko Nagurski beats Ray Steele in Minnesota, to become wrestling champion
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11 Mar 1941 FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill (lend money to Britain)
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11 Mar 1942 World War II: General Douglas MacArthur flees Corregidor.
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11 Mar 1942 1st deportation train leaves Paris France for Auschewitz Concentration Camp
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11 Mar 1942 General MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia
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11 Mar 1942 Japanese troop land on North-Sumatra
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11 Mar 1943 Nazi Militia forms in the Netherlands
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11 Mar 1944 Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested
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11 Mar 1945 World War II: The Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived Japanese puppet state, is established with Bảo Đại as its ruler.
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11 Mar 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.
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11 Mar 1945 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs
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11 Mar 1945 Flemish Nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death
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11 Mar 1946 Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, is captured by British troops.
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11 Mar 1948 1st black in the US Tennis Open (Reginald Weir)
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11 Mar 1948 WBAL TV channel 11 in Baltimore, Maryland (CBS) begins broadcasting
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11 Mar 1948 Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed
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11 Mar 1948 Reginald Weir became the 1st black to play in the US Tennis Open
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11 Mar 1953 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams)
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11 Mar 1953 An American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches
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11 Mar 1954 US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics
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11 Mar 1956 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
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11 Mar 1958 Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21"
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11 Mar 1958 Starting this season, American League batters are required to wear batting helmets
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11 Mar 1959 "Raisin in the Sun, " 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens
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11 Mar 1959 Teddy Scholten wins Eurovision Song festival with "A Little Bit"
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11 Mar 1960 Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth & Venus
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11 Mar 1961 Then NHL record 40 penalties, Black Hawks & Maple Leafs (20 each)
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11 Mar 1963 Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain
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11 Mar 1965 Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto
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11 Mar 1966 Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out
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11 Mar 1967 Pink Floyd releases their 1st song (Arnold Layne)
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11 Mar 1968 Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting
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11 Mar 1968 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 12nd string quartet
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11 Mar 1968 Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay"
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11 Mar 1970 12th Grammy Awards: Aquarius, Crosby Stills & Nash, Peggy Lee win
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11 Mar 1970 Iraq Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation
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11 Mar 1972 "Inner City" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 97 performances
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11 Mar 1973 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA S&H Green Stamp Golf Classic
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11 Mar 1974 Mount Etna in Sicily erupts
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11 Mar 1974 Rhino Store gives people 5
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11 Mar 1975 Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong guerrilla forces establish control over Ban Me Thuot commune from the South Vietnamese army.
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11 Mar 1975 Portugal military coup under General Spinola fails
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11 Mar 1975 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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11 Mar 1977 The 1977 Hanafi Siege: More than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations.
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11 Mar 1977 34 Israelis killed by Palestinians on the Tel Aviv-Haifa highway
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11 Mar 1977 Moslems hold 130 hostages in Washington DC
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11 Mar 1978 Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel's Operation Litani.
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11 Mar 1978 Terrorists attack mail truck at Tel Aviv, 45 killed
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11 Mar 1978 University of San Francisco-led Bill Cartwright scores 23 points as the Dons oust North Carolina
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11 Mar 1979 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic
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11 Mar 1979 Randy Hold receives 67 minutes in penalties in a 60 minute NHL hockey game
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11 Mar 1980 Rod Marsh bowls 10 overs for 51 runs in dull Australia vs Pakistan cricket draw
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11 Mar 1981 Chile constitution takes effect, Augusto Pinochet 2nd term begins
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11 Mar 1981 Johnny Mize & Rube Foster elected to baseball Hall of Fame
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11 Mar 1982 Failed military coup under Rambocus/Hawker in Suriname
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11 Mar 1982 Harrison Williams (Senator-Democrat-NJ) resigned rather than face expulsion
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11 Mar 1982 Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Washington DC
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11 Mar 1983 Ice Dance Championship at Helsinki Finland won by Torvill and Dean (GRB)
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11 Mar 1983 Ice Pairs Championship at Helsinki won by Valova and Vasiliev (URS)
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11 Mar 1983 Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon.
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11 Mar 1983 World Ice Dance Championship in Helsinki Finland won by Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (Great Britain)
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11 Mar 1983 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Elena Valova & Oleg Vasiliev (USSR)
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11 Mar 1983 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Rosalynn Sumners (USA)
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11 Mar 1983 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
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11 Mar 1984 Chris Johnson wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic
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11 Mar 1985 Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader
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11 Mar 1986 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4 / 21 / 753 BC
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11 Mar 1986 187.27 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
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11 Mar 1986 Islander Mike Bossy, 1st NHLer to score 50 goals in 9 straight seasons
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11 Mar 1986 Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 millionkm
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11 Mar 1986 NFL adopts instant replay rule
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11 Mar 1987 Wayne Gretzky scores 1,500th NHL point
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11 Mar 1988 Utrecht conservatory destroyed by fire
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11 Mar 1990 Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970.
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11 Mar 1990 Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
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11 Mar 1990 16th People's Choice Awards
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11 Mar 1990 Lithuania declares it's Independence
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11 Mar 1990 Maggie Will wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International
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11 Mar 1991 Janet Jackson signs $40M three album deal with Virgin records
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11 Mar 1991 John Smith, amateur wrestler, wins James E Sullivan Award
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11 Mar 1991 Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked as #1
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11 Mar 1993 Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
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11 Mar 1994 Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as President of Chile
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11 Mar 1995 President Nazarbajev disbands Kazakhstan parliament
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11 Mar 1995 Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in US
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11 Mar 1995 Yolanda Chen hop-skip-jumps world indoor record 15.03 meter
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11 Mar 1996 Chris Harris scores 130 in losing New Zealand side vs Australia, World Cup
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11 Mar 1996 Mark Waugh scores 110 vs New Zealand for his third century of the World Cup
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11 Mar 1997 Beatle McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen
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11 Mar 1997 3rd Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
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11 Mar 1997 Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space
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11 Mar 1997 Beatle Paul McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen Elizabeth II
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11 Mar 1997 San Francisco Giant J T Snow suffers a fractured eye socket when hit by a pitch
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11 Mar 1999 Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
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11 Mar 2004 Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 191 people.
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11 Mar 2006 Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile.
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11 Mar 2007 Georgia claims Russian helicopters attacked the Kodori Valley in Abkhazia, an accusation that Russia categorically denies later.
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11 Mar 2009 Winnenden school shooting: Sixteen are killed and 11 are injured before recent-graduate Tim Kretschmer shoots and kills himself, leading to tightened weapons restrictions in Germany.
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11 Mar 2010 Economist and businessman Sebastián Piñera is sworn in as President of Chile, while three earthquakes, the strongest measuring magnitude 6.9 and all centered next to Pichilemu, capital of Cardenal Caro province, hit central Chile during the ceremony.
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11 Mar 2011 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.
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11 Mar 2012 A U.S. soldier kills 16 civilians in the Panjwayi District of Afghanistan near Kandahar.
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11 Mar 2014 Russia annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Getting 2014 Crimean crisis and 2014–15 Russian military intervention in Ukraine.
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