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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, Generale russo (1787)
Raoul Walsh, Regista americano (1887)
Dorothy Gish, Attrice americana (1898)
J. C. R. Licklider, Scienziato americano, precursore di Internet (1915)
Nicolaas Bloembergen, Fisico olandese, premio Nobel (1920)
Ralph Abernathy, Leader americano dei diritti civili (1926)
Rupert Murdoch, Magnate dei media australiano (1931)
Sandra Milo, Attrice italiana (1935)
Dominique Sanda, Attrice francese (1948)
Jerry Zucker, Regista americano (1950)
Nina Hagen, Cantante tedesca (1955)
Curtis Brown, Astronauta americano (1956)
Cheryl Lynn, Cantante americana (1957)
Alex Kingston, Attrice inglese (1963)
Soraya, Cantante americana (1969)
Christopher Rice, Scrittore americano (1978)
Didier Drogba, Calciatore ivoriano (1978)
Benji Madden, Musicista americano (Good Charlotte) (1979)
Joel Madden, Musicista americano (Good Charlotte) (1979)
Anna Tsuchiya, Cantante giapponese (1984)

Jean Casimir-Perier, Politico francese (1907)
Henri Giraud, Generale francese (1949)
Alexander Fleming, Biologo scozzese, scopritore della penicillina, premio Nobel per la Fisiologia e Medicina (1955)
Richard Byrd, Esploratore americano (1957)
Erle Stanley Gardner, Romanziere americano (1970)
Claude François, Cantante francese (1978)
Richard Brooks, Regista americano (1992)
Slobodan Miloević, Presidente della Serbia e della Jugoslavia (2006)

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