Holidays Calendar for March 11, 2026
Decoration Day (also known as a Memorial Day) is a Liberian public holiday celebrated annually on the third Wednesday in March. It is a memorial day when Liberians clean and decorate the graves of their deceased relatives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Day (RDN Day) is celebrated annually on the second Wednesday in March during National Nutrition Month. The day recognizes trained and credentialed food and nutrition experts who are qualified to assess, diagnose, and treat dietary and nutritional issues.
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.
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.
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.
Saudi Flag Day is an official holiday celebrated annually on March 11, commemorating the adoption of the Saudi Arabian national flag in 1937. It is one of three non-religious legal holidays celebrated in Saudi Arabia according to the Gregorian calendar, alongside Founding Day and National Day.
March 11 is National Oatmeal Nut Waffles Day. It's hard to imagine heartier or more specific breakfast, than the oatmeal nut waffles. Even if you never tried these waffles, we're sure you will love them.
National Sofrito Day is one of the many unofficial food days celebrated in the United States. It is observed annually on March 11 in honor of a popular condiment and cooking base found in Mediterranean and Latin American cuisine.
On the second Wednesday in March, No Smoking Day is held in the United Kingdom. This health awareness day focuses on helping people who have decided to quit smoking.
National 311 Day is observed annually on March 11 (obviously) to raise awareness of a non-emergency telephone number that provides access to variety of municipal city services.
Festivals for March 11, 2026
- CPH:DOX Film Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark
- London Book Fair in London, United Kingdom
- AgriTek/FarmTek Astana in Astana, Kazakhstan
- Vilnius International Film Festival “Kino Pavasaris” in Vilnius, Lithuania
- Fumetto in Lucerne, Switzerland
- BUFF International Film Festival in Malmö, Sweden
- Starkbierzeit (Strong Beer Festival) in Munich, Germany
- Taiwan Lantern Festival in Chiayi, Taiwan
- New York International Children’s Film Festival in New York, USA
- Adelaide Festival in Adelaide, Australia
- Hong Kong Arts Festival in Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Adelaide Fringe in Adelaide, Australia
- Bay Area Renaissance Festival in Tampa, USA
- Florida Renaissance Festival in Deerfield Beach, USA
- Arizona Renaissance Festival in Apache Junction, USA
This Day in History
- 2024 Died: Paul Alexander, American paralytic polio survivor, lawyer and author. He contracted polio in 1952 at the age of six and spent the vast majority of his life in an iron lung for more than 70 years.
- 2023 Myanmar Army troops killed at least 30 civilians, including 3 Buddhist monks, during the Pinlaung massacre in the village of Namneng, Shan State.
- 2021 President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan into law to speed up the country's recovery from the economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and recession.
- 2020 The World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic, following extensive criticism that its response to the health emergency had been weak.
- 2012 Died: Ian Turpie, Australian actor, singer, and presenter, best known for hosting the Australian version of the game show The New Price is Right.
- 2011 An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude struck east of Sendai, Japan. The earthquake triggered a tsunami that killed thousands of people. This event also caused a large nuclear accident at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant.
- 2009 16 students were killed and 9 injured in a secondary school shooting in Winnenden, Germany, carried out by 17-year-old Tim Kretschmer, who later shot himself.
- 2006 Died: Slobodan Milošević, Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the president of Serbia between 1989 and 1997 and president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 until his overthrow in 2000.
- 2004 193 people were killed and more than 2,000 injured in a series of coordinated, nearly simultaneous bombings against the Cercanías commuter train system of Madrid, Spain.
- 2002 Died: James Tobin, American economist, professor at Harvard and Yale universities, and 1981 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics laureate. He proposed an economic model for censored endogenous variables.
- 1993 Born: Jodie Comer, English actress best known for her role as sociopathic assassin Villanelle in the BBC America spy thriller series Killing Eve.
- 1992 Died: Richard Brooks, American director, producer, and screenwriter, best known for his outstanding works Blackboard Jungle, Can on a Hot Tin Roof, Elmer Gantry, In Cold Blood, and Looking for Mr. Goodbar.
- 1989 Born: Anton Yelchin, American actor who began his career as a child actor and is best known for portraying Pavel Chekov in the Star Trek reboot films.
- 1978 At least 37 people were killed and more than 70 were wounded when an Israeli bus was hijacked by Al Fatah, a leading secular Palestinian political party. This incident prompted Israel's Operation Litani.
- 1970 Died: Erle Stanley Gardner, American author best known for his detective stories about Perry Mason. He was one of the best-selling American authors of the 20th century at the time of death.
- 1969 Born: Terrence Howard, American actor known for his roles in Hustle & Flow, Winnie Mandela, Ray, Lackawanna Blues, Four Brothers, Iron Man, and many other films.
- 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: David LaChapelle, American photographer, music video director and film director. His work often references art history and sometimes conveys social messages.
- 1963 Born: Alex Kingston, English actress, best known for her roles as Dr. Elizabeth Corday in the medical drama ER and as River Song in Doctor Who.
- 1958 Died: Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish carpenter and businessman. He is known for founding the construction toy company Lego, later known as the Lego Group.
- 1957 Died: Richard E. Byrd, American admiral and explorer. Byrd claimed that 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 the discovery of penicillin. Fleming also discovered lysozyme, an 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 games, and 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, the co-founder of Texaco, the largest oil retail brand, known in the USA, Latin America, West Africa, and the UK.
- 1927 The Roxy Theatre was opened just off Times Square in New York City by Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel. It was a leading Broadway film showcase through the 1950s and also noted for its lavish stage shows.
- 1921 Born: Astor Piazzolla, Argentinian bandoneón player and tango composer. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style called nuevo tango, incorporating elements of jazz and classical music.
- 1921 Born: Frank Harary, American mathematician who specialized in graph theory and standardized the terminology of graphs. He is widely recognized as one of the "fathers" of modern graph theory.
- 1916 Born: Ezra Jack Keats, American author and illustrator. The Snowy Day, written and illustrated by Keats, is considered one of the most important American books of the 20th century.
- 1915 Died: Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian author. Browne is best known for this novel Robbery Under Arms that was published under the pen name Rolf Boldrewood.
- 1907 Born: Jessie Matthews, English actress, singer, and dancer. Matthews was a much-loved personality of British theater and film audiences for her warbling voice and round cheeks.
- 1888 The Great Blizzard of 1888 began, paralyzing the East Coast of the United States from Chesapeake Bay to Maine, as well as the Atlantic provinces of Canada. It resulted in more than 400 deaths.
- 1873 Born: David Horsley, English-American director and producer. He founded the Centaur Film Company and its West Coast branch, the Nestor Film Company, which established the first film studio in Hollywood in 1911.
- 1864 At least 240 people were killed during the Great Sheffield Flood in Sheffield, England, when the Dale Dyke Dam broke as its reservoir was being filled for the first time.
- 1818 Born: Marius Petipa, French-Russian dancer and choreographer. Today Petipa is considered one the most influential ballet masters and choreographers.
- 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 by the Kingdom of Mysore and the British East India Company, bringing the Second Anglo-Mysore War (1780-1784) to an end.