Shocking events on March 11 throughout history

Did you know that March 11 is a significant date throughout history? From natural disasters to political events, this date has seen some shocking moments. Watch this video to learn more about the events that occurred on March 11 throughout history.
1708 Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation
1779 US Army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)
1789 Benjamin Banneker and Pierre Charles L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington, D.C.
1791 Samuel Mulliken is 1st to obtain more than one US patent
1823 1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vermont
1824 US War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs
1855 Bowery Boys gang leader William Poole aka "Bill the Butcher" is buried in Brooklyn with 155 carriages and 6,000 mourners
1861 Confederate convention in Montgomery adopts constitution (US Civil War)
1862 Abraham Lincoln removes George McClellan as General-in-Chief of the US Army
1865 General William T. Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, North Carolina
1897 A meteorite enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes over New Martinsville, West Virginia. The debris causes damage but no human injuries are reported.
1941 FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill, allowing US to provide material support to Great Britain's war effort in return for future use of land for US military bases in England
1942 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1953 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams)
1963 US Defense Secretary Robert MacNamara orders the adoption by the US military of the M16 assault rifle, originally designed as the AR-15 by Eugene Stoner
1964 Gene Roddenberry brings together a 16-page pitch for the original Star Trek series
1968 Otis Redding is the first person in the US to posthumously receive gold record for his single "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay”
1977 Hanafi Muslims hold 130 hostages in Washington, D.C.
1997 Beatle Paul McCartney is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
1999 Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
2011 9.0 magnitude earthquake strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people and causing the second worst nuclear accident in history at Fukushima nuclear plant
2013 North Korea cuts the phone line with South Korea, breaching the 1953 armistice
2018 China's National People's Congress approves removal of term limits for a leader, allowing Xi Jinping to be presidency for life
2018 Superhero movie "The Black Panther" becomes the fifth Marvel movie to earn $1 billion worldwide
2020 COVID-19 declared a pandemic by the head of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, after 121,564 cases worldwide and 4,373 deaths
2020 Harvey Weinstein is sentenced to 23 years in prison in New York
2020 Smallest dinosaur ever discovered - skull preserved in piece of amber smaller than a fingertip from a mine in Myanmar, reported in "Nature"
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