March 11: Purim begins at sunset (Judaism, 2017); Independence Day in Lithuania (1990)
Shō Tai
- 1707 – Queen Anne withheld royal assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoed legislation.
- 1818 – Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a novel by Mary Shelley, was first published in London.
- 1879 – Shō Tai (pictured), the last king of the Ryūkyū Kingdom, abdicated when the kingdom was annexed by Japan and became Okinawa Prefecture.
- 1993 – Janet Reno was confirmed by the Senate as the first female United States Attorney General.
- 2007 – Georgian authorities accused Russia of orchestrating a helicopter attack in the Kodori Valley of the breakaway territory of Abkhazia.
Margaret Oakley Dayhoff (b. 1925) · Helen Rollason (b. 1956)
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