Quick glance of 11 March in the pages of History

March 11: Here are the major events that occurred on 11 March….

• 11 March, 1689: Death anniversary of Maratha ruler Sambhaji Bhosale who ascended the Throne after the death of his father, the Great Maratha ruler Shivaji. He ruled the Maratha empire for a period of 9 years and had constant struggles against the Mughal Empire.
• 11 March, 1811: French astronomer who predicted by mathematical means the existence of the planet Neptune was born on this day.
• 11 March, 1840: Dwijendranath Tagore, a quintessential Bengali Renaissance man who, among other things, was a poet, composer, mathematician and philosopher, was born on this day.
• 11 March, 1915: Birth anniversary of Vijay Hazare who was an Indian cricketer. He had also served as the captain of Indian cricket team for 14 test matches period in fact under his captaincy India had won its first test match. After his retirement he had also served as a selector for sometime and there is a zonal tournament which has been named in his honour as the Vijay Hazare trophy. He was one of the first few cricketers who received India’s civilian honour of Padma shri.
• 11 March, 1918: Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia.
• 11 March, 1969: US Levi jeans add their latest craze of jeans, ‘the Bell Bottoms’ to their line of jeans which had become fashionable as part of the hippie counterculture movement together with love beads, granny glasses and tie-dye shirts.
• 11 March, 1985: Mikhail Gorbachev was named the new chairman of the Soviet Communist Party.
• 11 March, 1990: Lithuania becomes the 1st Soviet Republic to declare its independence.
• 11 March, 2002: Two columns of light were pointed skyward from ground zero in New York as a temporary memorial to the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
• 11 March, 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.
• 11 March, 2018: China’s National People’s Congress approves removal of term limits for a leader, allowing Xi Jinping presidency for life.