March 11: Day Of The Week
March 11, 2013 is the 70th day of the year 2013 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 295 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is lundi.
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Here’s the March calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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| 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
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Pisces is the zodiac 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.
March 11 Historical Events
- 1784 –The signing of the Treaty of Mangalore brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end.
- 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.
- 1917 –World War I: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
- 1931 –Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union.
- 1945 –World War II: The Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived puppet state, is established with Bảo Đại as its ruler.
- 2006 –Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile.
- 2011 –An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km 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.
Who were born on March 11?
- 1725 –Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1807)
- 1878 –Umegatani Tōtarō II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 20th Yokozuna (d. 1927)
- 1940 –Alberto Cortez, Argentinian singer
- 1956 –Rob Paulsen, American voice actor
- 1958 –Flemming Rose, Danish journalist
- 1966 –Joe Hachem, Lebanese-born Australian poker player
- 1974 –Jon Dalton, American reality show personality
- 1979 –Benji Madden, American guitarist (Good Charlotte)
- 1982 –Thora Birch, American actress
- 1985 –Derek Schouman, American football player
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