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On This Day In History for March 11, 2026

This is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 295 days remaining in 2026.

It was on this date in 1702, that The Daily Courant, England’s first national daily newspaper, was published for the first time.
It was 18 years ago today that Space Shuttle Endeavour launched on STS-123, carrying the first component of the Japanese Kibō module to the International Space Station.
March 11, 2020, The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 virus epidemic a pandemic.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

French mathematician and astronomer, Urbain Le Verrier, born on this date in 1811.
Joseph Louis François Bertrand, French mathematician, economist, and academic was born on that same date in 1822.
Louis Bachelier, the French mathematician and theorist was born 156 years ago today.
German chemist and academic, Robert Havemann, born on this date in 1910.
Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born on that same date in 1920.
Australian-American businessman and media magnate, Rupert Murdoch is 95 today.
Also turning 76 today is American singer-songwriter, producer, and conductor Bobby McFerrin.
Scottish-American actor and singer, John Barrowman, born on this date in 1967.

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And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for March 11, 2026

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