Birthday Paper › What happened on …? › March 11

Events on March 11

• 1405 The council of the city of Frankfurt am Main buys the citizens' houses Haus zum Römer and Haus zum Goldenen Schwan and makes them the town hall of the city.
• 1829 With the first revival performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion after his death by the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy establishes a Bach renaissance in the 19th century.
• 1872 In the German Empire, in the course of the Kulturkampf, all schools are placed under state supervision under the School Supervision Act and church school inspectorates are replaced.
• 1941 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act, which enables the still neutral United States in World War II to supply Great Britain, and later primarily the Soviet Union, with war-essential material on loan.
• 1976 In Germany, ARD broadcasts the first episode of the crime series The Rockford Files with James Garner in the title role.
• 1985 One day after Konstantin Chernenko's death, the Central Committee of the CPSU elects the 54-year-old Mikhail Gorbachev as General Secretary – one of the youngest in its history.
• 1991 Through her victory in the Key Biscayne final, Monica Seles becomes the new number 1 in the women's tennis world ranking, replacing Steffi Graf, who had held this position since August 17, 1987 for 186 weeks and a total of an unprecedented 377 weeks.
• 1993 With Janet Reno, under US President Bill Clinton, a woman becomes United States Attorney General and thus head of the Department of Justice for the first time.
• 2005 The Nintendo DS video game console is released in Europe.
• 2009 In Winnenden near Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg, a 17-year-old gunman shoots twelve people at the Albertville-Realschule and three passers-by during his subsequent escape. After being shot by a police officer, he kills himself with a shot to the head.
• 2011 The Tōhoku earthquake shakes Japan and triggers a tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
• 2020 The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the spread of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 an international pandemic.

Born on March 11

• 1894 Otto Grotewohl, German politician
• 1910 Robert Havemann, German chemist and resistance fighter
• 1921 Astor Piazzolla, Argentine tango musician, bandoneon player and composer
• 1931 Janosch, German children's book author and writer
• 1931 Rupert Murdoch, Australian media entrepreneur
• 1950 Bobby McFerrin, US-American jazz musician
• 1950 Jerry Zucker, US-American director and screenwriter
• 1971 Johnny Knoxville, US-American actor
• 1981 Matthias Schweighöfer, German actor
• 1982 Thora Birch, US-American actress

Is your birthday on March 11?

Then there is a newspaper that tells only the story of your day: what was going on in the world on March 11 of your birth year, which song was at the top, what the weather was like at your birthplace, plus birthday twins and a personal greeting.

• For every birth year from 1946
• 4 to 10 pages, always €14.90, as a PDF to print
• With a greeting page for voice and video messages

Create the paper for March 11 · €14.90

Day and month are already filled in, you only choose the birth year.

Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „11. März“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

More days in March