311 - On This Day March 11th
Interesting that the Spanish Flu and COVID-19 have markers on the same day - 311.
2020 Coronavirus COVID-19 declared a pandemic by the head of the World Health Organization with 121,564 cases worldwide and 4,373 deaths
2020 Harvey Weinstein is sentenced to 23 years in prison for a criminal sex act and rape in New York
2018 China's National People's Congress approves removal of term limits for a leader, will allow Xi Jinping presidency for life
2013 North Korea cuts the phone line with South Korea, breaching the 1953 armistice
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
1997 Beatle Paul McCartney knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
1997 Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space
1988 British pound note ceases to be legal tender, replaced by one pound coin
1986 1 million days since the foundation of Rome on April 21st, 753 BC
1985 Mikhail Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader
1978 Terrorists attack mail truck at Tel Aviv, 45 killed
1977 Hanafi Muslims hold 130 hostages in Washington, D.C.
1974 Mount Etna in Sicily erupted
1971 Jim Morrison leaves for Paris to reorient himself emotionally and creatively and to avoid the jail sentence given to him in Miami. He will never return to the US.
1963 US Defense Secretary Robert MacNamara orders the adoption by the US military of the M16 assault rifle, originally designed as the AR-15 by Eugene Stoner
1960 Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth & Venus
1958 American B-47 accidentally drops nuclear bomb 15,000 ft on a family home in Mars Bluff, South Carolina; creates crater 75 ft across, bomb without its nuclear capsule
1945 Flemish nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death
1945 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs
1943 Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands
1942 Japanese troops land on North Sumatra
1942 General MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia
1942 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1941 FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill (lend money to Britain)
1938 Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria; German troops also entered the country
1935 Hermann Goering officially creates the Luftwaffe (German Air Force)
1935 Bank of Canada first opens on Wellington Street, Ottawa
1930 William Taft, US 27th President & Chief Justice buried in Arlington
1919 General strike in Germany crushed
1918 Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia
1918 First confirmed cases of the Spanish Flu in the US are reported at Fort Riley, Kansas
1864 The Great Sheffield Flood: the largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield
1862 General Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia Army of the Potomac. Gen Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief
1862 Abraham Lincoln removes George McClellen as general-in-chief
1861 Confederate convention in Montgomery adopts constitution (US Civil War)
1789 Benjamin Banneker and Pierre Charles L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington, D.C.
1779 US Army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)
1669 Mt Etna in Sicily erupts in its largest recorded eruption, killing 15,000
1513 Giovanni de' Medici chosen Pope Leo X
full list - https://www.onthisday.com/events/march/11