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2020

Harvey Weinstein is sentenced to 23 years in prison in New York for sex crimes.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declares that the world has entered a pandemic caused by COVID-19, with 121,564 cases reported and 4,373 deaths.

2011

A 9.0-magnitude earthquake strikes 130 km east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami that kills 18,079 people and causes the second-worst nuclear accident in history at Fukushima.

1996

The Canadiens play their final game at the Montreal Forum. The NHL team had played its home games there for 72 years.

1985

Mikhail Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as leader of the USSR.

1978

Bobby Hull of the Winnipeg Jets joins Gordie Howe by recording the 1,000th point of his career in a game against the Quebec Nordiques.

1967

The band Pink Floyd releases its very first song, “Arnold Layne.”

1935

The Bank of Canada is established on Wellington Street in Ottawa.

1867

Giuseppe Verdi premieres his opera “Don Carlos” in Paris.

1865

The Canadian Assembly votes 91–33 in favor of forming a confederation.

1851

Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Rigoletto” premieres in Venice.

1848

Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first premiers of the Province of Canada. They are democratically elected.

1669

Mount Etna in Sicily erupts, killing 15,000 people.

It happened on… March 11

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