Historical events March 11.

1784: Treaty of Mangalore -Second Anglo-Mysore war ended with the signing of a treaty.

1795: Battle of Kurdla India: Mahratten beat Mongols.

1886, 11th March: Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi was awarded a doctorate from the University of Philadelphia.

1889: Pandita Ramabai started Shardasadan in Mumbai for widows.

1984: Oahili modern ship Jalusha launched at Visakhapatnam.

1999: Infosys became the first Indian company to gain ground on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange.

2001, 11th March: Indian Badminton player P Gopichand won the All England Badminton Championship after 21 years.

2001: Harbhajan Singh became the first Indian bowler to take a hat-trick in Test cricket. He did it against Australia.

2011: A magnitude 8.9 earthquake east of Sendai in Japan triggered a tsunami. It killed thousands of people in Japan.

Famous birthdays – March 11

1840: Dwijendranath Tagore, an Indian poet, musician, philosopher, and mathematician.

1863: Sayajirao Gaekwad III, the Maharaja of Baroda.

1915: Vijay Hazare, Former an Indian cricketer.

1916: Harold Wilson, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1942: Captain Amarinder Singh, an Indian politician and military historian serving as the 15th and current Chief Minister of Punjab.

1966: Mohit Chauhan, an Indian playback singer.

Death anniversaries  March 11

1689: Sambhaji Bhosale, the second ruler of the Maratha kingdom.

1955: Sir Alexander Fleming, a Scottish physician, and microbiologist.

1957: Richard Byrd Jr., an American naval officer, and explorer.

1965: Gaurishankar Govardhanram Joshi, pen name Dhumaketu, an Indian Gujarati-language writer.

1971: Philo Farnsworth, an American inventor and television pioneer.