What are the important events that happened on March 11? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

March 11: Facts & Myths About This Day

March 11 is the 70^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 295 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 26, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,741,651,200 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘heptacontagon’ day.

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.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 343 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,463 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

March 11 Historical Events

• 1387 –
  Battle of Castagnaro: English condottiero Sir John Hawkwood leads Padova to victory in a factional clash with Verona.
• 1784 –
  The signing of the Treaty of Mangalore brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end.
• 1917 –
  World War I: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
• 1927 –
  In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
• 1942 –
  World War II: General Douglas MacArthur leaves Corregidor.
• 1945 –
  World War II: The Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived puppet state, is established with Bảo Đại as its ruler.
• 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.
• 1985 –
  Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• 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.
• 2006 –
  Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile.

Who were born on March 11?

• 1876 –
  Carl Ruggles, American composer (d. 1971)
• 1903 –
  Ronald Syme, New Zealand classicist and historian (d. 1989)
• 1926 –
  İlhan Mimaroğlu, Turkish musician and composer
• 1948 –
  César Gerónimo, Dominican baseball player
• 1950 –
  Jerry Zucker, American director
• 1956 –
  Curtis Brown, NASA astronaut
• 1964 –
  Peter Berg, American film actor, director and producer
• 1973 –
  Martin Hiden, Austrian footballer
• 1984 –
  Tom James, British rower
• 1989 –
  Anton Yelchin, Russian/American actor

Who died on March 11?

• 1198 –
  Marie de Champagne, daughter of Louis VII of France (b. 1145)
• 1602 –
  Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer
• 1607 –
  Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer
• 1931 –
  Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, German film director (b. 1888)
• 1951 –
  János Zsupánek, Slovene (Prekmurian) poet and writer (b. 1861)
• 1955 –
  Oscar Mayer, Bavarian-born American meat packer (b. 1859)
• 1955 –
  Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1881)
• 1967 –
  Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (b. 1882)
• 1971 –
  Philo T. Farnsworth, American inventor (b. 1906)
• 2006 –
  Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and Yugoslavia (b. 1941)