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1818 : Frankenstein On March 11, 1818, Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein is published. The young British writer was then 21 years old.
1851 : Premiere of Rigoletto On March 11, 1851, the first performance of Verdi's opera, Rigoletto, is given at La Fenice in Venice.
1888 : Great Blizzard of '88 On March 11, 1888, began one of the worst blizzard in U.S. history. It paralyzed the U.S. East Coast for a week with snowfall reaching 1m30 high and caused the deaths of 400 people.
1985 : Mikhail Gorbachev On 11 March 1985, just after the death of Konstantin Chernenko, Mikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary of Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He contributed to the end of the Cold War and undertook radical reforms in his policy of Perestroika.
2004 : Madrid bombings On March 11, 2004, four commuter trains are under attack from terrorists who exploded 10 bombs through mobile phones. Nearly 200 people are killed and 1,500 injured. The attack was attributed to Moroccan Islamists linked to al-Qaida attack in retaliation for Spain's involvement in the Iraq War.
2011 : Earthquake in Japan On March 11, 2011 at 2:46 p.m. local time, an earthquake of moment magnitude 9.0 hits Japan, at 373 km from Tokyo. The devastating waves of the tsunami which follows cause immense damage. This is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan at that time.

Mikhail Gorbachev
Democracy must learn to defend itself.

Ivan Nabokov, General ruso (1787)
Raoul Walsh, Director de cine americano (1887)
Dorothy Gish, Actriz americana (1898)
J. C. R. Licklider, Científico estadounidense, precursor de la Internet (1915)
Nicolaas Bloembergen, Físico holandés, Premio Nobel (1920)
Ralph Abernathy, Líder de los derechos civiles (1926)
Rupert Murdoch, Magnate de los medios de Australia (1931)
Sandra Milo, Actriz italiana (1935)
Dominique Sanda, Actriz francesa (1948)
Jerry Zucker, Director de cine americano (1950)
Nina Hagen, Cantante alemana (1955)
Curtis Brown, Astronauta americano (1956)
Cheryl Lynn, Cantante americana (1957)
Alex Kingston, Actriz Inglesa (1963)
Soraya, Cantante americana (1969)
Christopher Rice, Escritor americano (1978)
Didier Drogba, Futbolista de Costa de Marfil (1978)
Benji Madden, Músico estadounidense (Good Charlotte) (1979)
Joel Madden, Músico estadounidense (Good Charlotte) (1979)
Anna Tsuchiya, Cantante japonesa (1984)

Jean Casimir-Perier, Político francés (1907)
Henri Giraud, General francés (1949)
Alexander Fleming, Biólogo escocés, descubridor de la penicilina, Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina (1955)
Richard Byrd, Explorador estadounidense (1957)
Erle Stanley Gardner, Novelista estadounidense (1970)
Claude François, Cantante francés (1978)
Richard Brooks, Director de cine americano (1992)
Slobodan Miloević, Presidente de Serbia y de Yugoslavia (2006)

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