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Holidays Calendar for March 11, 2014

03/12/2014 →

Public Holidays → Lithuania

Day of Restoration of Independence of Lithuania

Day of Restoration of Independence of Lithuania is a Lithuanian public holiday celebrated on March 11. It commemorates the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania adopted in 1990.

Public Holidays → Lesotho

King Moshoeshoe I's Anniversary in Lesotho

King Moshoeshoe I's Anniversary (Moshoeshoe Day) is a public holiday in the Kingdom of Lesotho. It is celebrated on March 11 each year. The holiday honors King Moshoeshoe I who consolidated various Basotho peoples and created the foundation of the present Lesotho.

International Observances

World Plumbing Day

World Plumbing Day is observed annually on March 11. It was established to raise awareness of the important role of plumbing in community health and highlight the contribution of plumbers to preventing public health hazards.

Professional Days → Russia

Day of Drug Control Authorities in Russia

March 11 is Day of Drug Control Authorities in Russia. It is the professional holiday of all the employees of the Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation (FKSN). This professional day was established by President Vladimir Putin in 2008.

Professional Days → Tajikistan

Tajik Press Day

Tajik Press Day is the official professional holiday of all the journalists, editors, and other print media employees in the Republic of Tajikistan. It has been celebrated annually on March 11 since 1993.

Professional Days → USA

National Funeral Director and Mortician Recognition Day

National Funeral Director and Mortician Recognition Day is observed annually on March 11. It was created to recognize the professionals who help people during the darkest time in their lives and often don’t get enough credit for what they do.

Ecological Observances → USA

Johnny Appleseed Day in the USA

Johnny Appleseed Day is an unofficial holiday in the United States dedicated to a Christian missionary and gardener who is credited with introducing apple trees to large parts of the American Midwest. It is celebrated on March 11 or September 26.

Cultural Observances

World Day of Muslim Culture, Peace, Dialogue and Film

World Day of Muslim Culture, Peace, Dialogue and Film is an annual observance held on March 11. It was created in 2010 by Javed Mohammed, a writer and producer from California.

Anniversaries and Memorial Days → USA, Canada

National COVID-19 Day

The COVID-19 pandemic had caused more than 6.8 million confirmed deaths as of March 2023, making it one of the deadliest epidemics and pandemics in history. National COVID-19 Day is observed in the United States and Canada on March 11 to honor the lives lost during the pandemic and express gratitude to frontline workers.

Unofficial Holidays → USA

This Day in History

2012 Died: Ian Turpie, Australian actor, best known for hosting the Australia version of game show The New Prince is Right.
2011 An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude stroke east of Sendai, Japan. The earthquake triggered a tsunami, that killed thousands of people. This event also caused the large nuclear accident at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant.
2009 16 students were killed and 11 injured at a secondary school in Winnenden, Germany, by a recent-graduated Tim Kretschmer, who later shot himself.
2006 Died: Slobodan Milošević, Serbian politician, the 3rd President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
2004 191 were killed and 1,800 injured when trains simultaneously exploded on rush hour in Madrid, Spain.
2002 Died: James Tobin, American economist, teacher at Harvard and Yale Universities and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics laureate in 1981. Tobin pioneered the study of investment, monetary and fiscal policy, financial markets and proposed an economic model for censored endogenous variables.
1992 Died: Richard Brooks, American director, producer, and screenwriter, best known for outstanding works Blackboard Jungle, Can on a Hot Tin Roof, Elmer Gantry, In Cold Blood and Looking for Mr. Goodbar.
1978 At least 37 were killed and more than 70 were wounded when an Israel bus was hijacked by Al Fatah, a leading secular Palestinian political party. This incident prompted Israel's Operation Litani, when Israel Defense Forces invaded Lebanon up to the Litani River.
1970 Died: Erle Stanley Gardner, American author, best known for the detective stories Perry Mason. He is considered as one of the best-selling American authors of the 20th century at the time of death.
1967 Born: John Barrowman, Scottish-American actor, singer, and dancer, best known for the role as Captain Jack Harkness in Doctor Who and Torchwood.
1963 Born: Alex Kingston, English actress, best known for her roles as Dr. Elizabeth Corday in medical drama ER and as River Song in Doctor Who.
1958 Died: Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman, founder of The Lego Group, Lego toys manufacturer.
1957 Died: Richard E. Byrd, American admiral and explorer. Byrd claimed hat his expeditions were the first to reach the North Pole and the South Pole by air.
1955 Died: Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate for discovery of penicillin. Fleming also discovered the lysozyme, the enzyme that damages bacterial cell walls.
1952 Born: Douglas Adams, English-American author and playwright best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, that became the basis for TV series, stage plays, comics, computer game a a feature film.
1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease Act, that allowed American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
1937 Died: Joseph S. Cullinan, American businessman, co-founder of Texaco, the largest oil retail brand, known in the USA, Latin America, West Africa and the UK.
1927 Roxy Theater was opened in New York City by Samuel Roxy Rothafel.
1921 Born: Astor Piazzolla, Argentinian bandoneón player and tango composer. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style nuevo tango, that incorporated elements of jazz and classic music.
1921 Born: Frank Harary, American mathematician, who specialized in graph theory and standardized the terminology of graphs.
1918 The first case of Spanish flue occurred, that marked the beginning of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
1916 Born: Ezra Jack Keats, American author and illustrator. The Snowy Day, that was written and illustrated by Keats, is considered as one of the most important American books of the 20th century. Keats is also known for introduction of multiculturalism into mainstream American children's literature and development of the use of collage as a medium for illustration.
1915 Died: Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian author. Browne is best known for this novel Robbery Under Arms, that was published under a pen name Rolf Boldrewood.
1907 Born: Jessie Matthews, English actress, singer, and dancer. Matthews was much-loved personality of the British theater and film audience for her warbling voice an round cheeks, that is why film exhibitors voted her among the top ten stars in Britain.
1888 More then 400 people were killed during the Great Blizzard, that hit the eastern seaboard of the United States.
1873 Born: David Horsley, English-American director and producer, co-founder of Universal Studios in Hollywood.
1864 238 people were killed during the Great Sheffield Flood in Sheffield, England.
1818 Born: Marius Petipa, French-Russian dancer and choreographer. Today Petipa is considered as the most influential ballet master and choreographer of ballet.
1811 Born: Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician and astronomer, best known for predicting the existence of Neptune using only mathematics.
1784 The Treaty of Mangalore was signed, that brought the Second Anglo-Mysore War (1780-1784) to an end.