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11 March
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1689 Sambhaji Bhosale, second Chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire, who ruled from 1681 to 1689, died at Tulapur, Maharashtra. He was the eldest son of Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire.
- 1784 The Treaty of Mangalore was signed between Tipu Sultan and the British East India Company.
- 1840 Dwijendranath Tagore, Bengali poet, song composer, philosopher, mathematician and painter, was born in Kolkata. He was one of the pioneers of shorthand and notation in Bengali script. He was the eldest son of Debendranath Tagore and the eldest brother of Rabindranath Tagore.
- 1863 Sayajirao Gaekwad III, Maharaja of Baroda State from 1875 to 1939, was born. He is remembered for reforming much of his state during his rule.
- 1872 Sher Ali, who assassinated Lord Mayo, the then Viceroy of India, while the latter was on a visit to Port Blair, was hanged.
- 1999 Infosys became the first India-registered company to be listed on NASDAQ Stock Market.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1702 The Daily Courant, first British daily newspaper, started publication. It consisted of a single page, with advertisements on the reverse side.
- 1955 Sir Alexander Fleming - the man who first discovered the life-saving drug penicillin - dies of a heart attack at London, United Kingdom.
- 1974 Mount Etna in Sicily erupted. It is one of the world's most active volcanoes and is in an almost constant state of activity.
- 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev takes over charge of the Soviet Union following the death of Konstantin Chernenko.
- 1990 Lithuania declares its Independence.
- 2020 COVID-19 declared a pandemic by the head of the World Health Organization.
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