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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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        • 14 – Pi Day (3/14)
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          • And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for March 11, 2026

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