March 11
What happened on March 11 in history
3 events fall on March 11, from 1702 to 2011. Read them below, then try to place a historical scene yourself — guess where in the world it happened and in what year.
Events on March 11
1702
The first English daily newspaper appears
The Daily Courant is published from premises near Fleet Street.
1918
The first recorded case of the 1918 flu
A soldier reports sick at Camp Funston, Kansas, in the pandemic's first wave.
2011
The Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
A magnitude 9.0 quake and huge waves devastate north-east Japan and flood Fukushima.
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