11 Mairch

The 11t o Mairch is the 70t day o the year (71st in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 295 days ti come.

Events

• 1879 – Shō Tai formally abdicatit his position o Keeng o Ryūkyū, unner orders frae Tokyo, endin the Ryukyu Kinrick
• 2011 – An yirdquauk measurin 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east o Sendai, Japan, triggerin a tsunami killin thoosands o fowk. This event also triggered the seicont lairgest nuclear accident in history, an ane o only twa events tae be classified as a Level 7 on the Internaitional Nuclear Event Scale.

Births

• 1952 – Douglas Adams, Inglish-American author an playwricht (d. 2001)

Daiths

• 1955 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, an botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)

Halidays

• 11 Mairch is the eat day o the follaein saunts:

St. Aurea

St. Constantine

St. Aengus

St. Amunia

St. Benedict Crispus

St. Vigilius

St. Teresa Margaret Redi

Sts. Trophimus & Thalus

St. Candidus

St. Firmian

St. Heraclius an Zosimus

St. Peter the Spaniard

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