Talk:March 11

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March 11: Commonwealth Day in the Commonwealth of Nations (2024); National Heroes and Benefactors Day in Belize (2024); Longtaitou Festival in China (2024)

Dale Dyke Dam in Sheffield, after its rupture

1864 – The Great Sheffield Flood killed at least 240 people and damaged more than 600 homes, after a crack in the Dale Dike Reservoir (pictured) caused it to fail.
1993 – The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Janet Reno as the country's first female attorney general.
2007 – Georgian authorities accused Russia of orchestrating a helicopter attack in the Kodori Valley of the breakaway territory of Abkhazia.
2009 – A teenage gunman engaged in a shooting spree at a secondary school in Winnenden, Germany, killing 16, including himself.

Mary of Woodstock (b. 1278)
Stanisław Koniecpolski (d. 1646)
Ralph Abernathy (b. 1926)
Gladys Pearl Baker (d. 1984)

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Jonny Appleseed Day[edit]

March 11th is NOT Johnny Appleseed Day ....Sept 26 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.152.37.108 (talk) 14:37, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]