1669: More than 20,000 people were killed after Mount Etna erupted in Sicily.
1702: 1st English daily newspaper “Daily Courant” publishes.
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1959: A Raisin in the Sun debuted with Stars Sidney Poitier and Claudia McNeil.
1986: The NFL started using the instant replay rule where video is analyzed to review what had just happened in a game.
1990: Lithuania becomes the first Soviet republic to declare its independence. The Baltic country’s secession marked an important step in the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
1990: Patricio Aylwin becomes Chile’s first democratically elected president since the end of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. Pinochet had been in power since a CIA-backed coup d’état in 1973. Under his command, thousands of political opponents were interned, tortured, and killed.
1993: The first woman, Janet Reno, was sworn in as the United States Attorney General as well.
1997: Queen Elizabeth II knighted Paul McCartney from the Beatles. The ceremony for his “services to music” took place at Buckingham Palace.
2004: 191 people die as several bombs explode on Madrid commuter trains. The bombings were conducted by an Islamist terrorist cell and came 3 days before Spain’s general elections.
2008: Soldiers stalked Niger Delta gang leader, Ateke Tom and reported that they found a huge cache of arms and ammunition along with an illegal pipeline used to tap stolen oil, in a raid on one of his bases.
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2011: A 9.0 magnitude earthquake strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing nearly 20,000 thousand people and causing the second worst nuclear accident in history at the Fukushima nuclear plant. Total damage was equivalent to $260 billion.
2018: China’s National People’s Congress approves removal of term limits for a leader, allowing Xi Jinping to be president for life.
2020: COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the head of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, after 121,564 cases worldwide and 4,373 deaths.
Births on This Day, March 11
Didier Drogba, 46 years old
Didier Drogba is an Ivorian football player, best known as a striker for Chelsea. He holds the record for the highest scorer on the Ivory Coast national team, as well as the highest scorer among foreign players at Chelsea. He was named African Footballer of the Year in 2006 and in 2009.
Jodie Comer 31 years old
Jodie Comer is an English actress was born in 1993, best known for her starring role in the television series Killing Eve (2018-2022) for which she won an Emmy Award. She has also starred in films such as Free Guy (2021) and The Last Duel (2021). Before her breakthrough, Comer started in 2008 with a performance in an episode of The Royal Today. She went on to several further television series including Doctor Foster (2015-2017), Thirteen (2016), and The White Princess (2017).
Vinnette Carroll (March 11, 1922 – November 5, 2002)
Vinnette Carroll was an American playwright, actress, and theatre director. She was the first African-American female director on Broadway, starting with the musical Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope (1972), and was the first African-American woman to win a Tony Award for directing. She died as a result of heart disease and diabetes aged 80
Harold Wilson (March 11, 1916 – May 24, 1995)
He was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1976, Wilson was a moderate socialist who emphasized increasing opportunity within society,
He died from cancer at the age of 79.
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