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This article covers breaking news and events in March 2011.
Daily events
Tuesday March 1, 2011
- Berlin / Germany : Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg resigns as Federal Defense Minister and from all other political offices because of the plagiarism affair surrounding his dissertation .
Wednesday March 2, 2011
- The Hague / Netherlands : The International Criminal Court begins an investigation into Libya's dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi on suspicion of human rights violations during the protests .
- Frankfurt am Main / Germany : In an attack at the airport , the 21-year-old Arid Uka from Kosovo shot two US soldiers ( United States Air Force ) and seriously injured two others.
Thursday March 3, 2011
- Khanty-Mansiysk / Russia : Beginning of the biathlon world championships
- Cairo / Egypt : After violent protests against his transitional government , Prime Minister Ahmad Schafiq is stepping down from his office, his successor being Essam Scharaf .
Friday March 4th 2011
- Apia / Samoa : The ruling Human Rights Protection Party won the parliamentary elections with 55.6% of the vote, while the Tautua Samoa Party won 22.7% and independent candidates received 19.7% of the vote.
- Paris / France : Start of the European Indoor Athletics Championships
- Santa Barbara County / United States : After the launch of NASA's Glory satellite at Vandenberg Air Force Base , the Taurus-XL launcher failed to reach orbit and crashed into the Pacific Ocean .
Saturday 5th March 2011
- Florianópolis / Brazil : At least 25 people are killed in a bus accident in the state of Santa Catarina .
Sunday March 6, 2011
- Tallinn / Estonia : In the parliamentary elections , Prime Minister Andrus Ansip's Reform Party received 28.6%, the Center Party 23.3%, Isamaa ja Res Publica Liit 20.5% and the Social Democratic Party 17.1% of the vote.
- Tokyo / Japan : Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara resigns due to a donation affair.
Monday March 7, 2011
- Hamburg / Germany : Olaf Scholz is elected First Mayor ; Social Democrat Dorothee Stapelfeldt will be the new President of the Citizenship .
- Paris / France : Trial begins against the former mayor and President Jacques Chirac , who is accused of misappropriating public funds.
Tuesday March 8, 2011
- Faisalabad / Pakistan : At least 23 people are killed and more than 150 others are injured in a bomb attack by the Taliban .
Wednesday March 9, 2011
- Dublin / Ireland : Enda Kenny will be the Parliament elected prime minister.
- Peshawar / Pakistan : A Taliban bombing kills at least 36 people and injures more than 100 others.
- Springfield / United States : Illinois is the 16th state to abolish the death penalty .
Thursday March 10, 2011
- Kunming / China : An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 to 5.8 M w in Yunnan Province kills at least 24 people and injures more than 150 others.
- Paris / France : The government is the first in the world to recognize the opposition National Council as the legal representative of Libya .
Friday March 11, 2011
- Ōkuma / Japan : As a result of the Tōhoku earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 M w , a series of serious to severe accidents occurred in the Fukushima I nuclear power plant , and the Fukushima II nuclear power plant was also affected by disruptions.
- Sanaa / Yemen : After the Islamic Friday prayer, thousands of demonstrators demand the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Salih .
- Sendai / Japan : The Tōhoku earthquake and the tsunami it triggered killed over 11,000 people , mainly in northeastern Japan , and more than 17,000 more are missing.
Saturday March 12, 2011
- Lisbon / Portugal : In several cities in the country , a total of around 300,000 people demonstrate for improvements in working and living conditions.
- New York / United States : At least 15 people are killed in a bus accident.
- Niamey / Niger : In the runoff election for the presidency , Mahamadou Issoufou wins with 57.95% of the vote, while Seini Oumarou has 42.05%.
- Stuttgart / Germany : Around 60,000 demonstrators form a human chain between the seat of the Baden-Württemberg state government and the Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant , protesting for an immediate nuclear phase-out .
Sunday March 13, 2011
- Khanty-Mansiysk / Russia : End of the biathlon world championships
- Porto-Novo / Benin : In the presidential election , incumbent Boni Yayi wins with 53.18% of the vote, while Adrien Houngbédji has 35.66%.
Monday March 14, 2011
- Berlin / Germany : In response to the accidents in Japanese nuclear power plants after the Tōhoku earthquake , the federal government imposed a three-month nuclear moratorium .
- Frankfurt am Main / Germany : Stephan Grill receives the young talent award and Cesare Montecucco the main prize of the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize .
- Kunduz / Afghanistan : At least 36 people are killed and more than 40 others are injured in a suicide attack by the Taliban .
- Manama / Bahrain : After ongoing clashes between the Shiite opposition and the Sunni government, over 1,000 Saudi Arabian soldiers march into the country. The Iran criticized this action sharply and calls on Bahrain to peacefully respond to the demonstrations.
Tuesday March 15, 2011
- Jounieh / Lebanon : Béchara Pierre Raï is elected to succeed the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and the whole Orient, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir , who resigned on February 26, 2011 .
Wednesday March 16, 2011
- Berlin / Germany : Ulla Bonas , Christian Büchel , Anja Feldmann , Kai-Uwe Hinrichs , Anthony A. Hyman , Bernhard Keimer , Franz Pfeiffer , Joachim Friedrich Quack , Gabriele Sadowski and Christine Silberhorn are awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize .
Thursday March 17, 2011
- Abidjan / Ivory Coast : At least 25 people are killed in an artillery attack on a market square.
- Leipzig / Germany : The writer Clemens J. Setz , the non-fiction author Henning Ritter and the translator Barbara Conrad are awarded the Leipzig Book Fair Prize.
- Miranshah / Pakistan : At least 38 people are killed and more than ten others are injured in an attack by a US drone on the Taliban in northern Waziristan .
- New York / United States : In a resolution on the situation in Libya, the United Nations Security Council decides to set up a no-fly zone and "necessary measures" to protect the civilian population in the country.
- Port-au-Prince / Haiti : Former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is returning from exile in South Africa after seven years .
Friday March 18, 2011
- Dar'ā / Syria : Starting from the city in the south of the country there are protests across the country, some of which are violently broken up by the police, and several regime critics are arrested. In response to the demonstrations, the governor of Dar'a governorate was sacked by President Bashar al-Assad two days later .
- Sanaa / Yemen : During an attack by government forces on protesters arrive at least 52 people dead and more than 126 are wounded, then calls on President Ali Abdullah Saleh the state of emergency from.
- Washington, DC / United States : NASA's MESSENGER Mercury probe is the first orbiter to enter the planet's orbit .
Saturday 19th March 2011
- Cairo / Egypt : In the constitutional referendum, 77.2% of the electorate vote in favor of the constitution drawn up by a constitutional committee and authorized by the military council .
- Lenzerheide / Switzerland : The German ski racer Maria Riesch wins the overall World Cup for the first time , while the Croatian Ivica Kostelić is successful in the men .
- Tripoli / Libya : Following the resolution of the United Nations Security Council , the military operation begins against the troops of the ruler Muammar al-Gaddafi .
Sunday March 20, 2011
- Dharamsala / India : Parliamentary elections for the Tibetan government in exile
- Magdeburg / Germany : In the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt , the CDU under top candidate Reiner Haseloff becomes the strongest party with 32.5% of the votes. The Left with 23.6%, the SPD with 21.5% and the Greens with 7.1% are also represented in the future state parliament; the FDP , on the other hand, fails to make it again with 3.8%.
- Oslo / Norway : The biathlete Tarjei Bø wins the overall men's world cup for the first time , while the Finn Kaisa Mäkäräinen is successful in the overall women's world cup.
- Port-au-Prince / Haiti : Michel Martelly wins the runoff election for the presidency against Mirlande Manigat .
Monday March 21, 2011
- Brazzaville / Republic of the Congo : At least 14 people are killed in a plane crash.
- Brussels / Belgium : The finance ministers of the Eurogroup decide on the modalities of the permanent stabilization mechanism through which debt crises in the European monetary union are to be prevented.
Tuesday March 22, 2011
- Tel Aviv / Israel : The district court sentenced former Israeli President Moshe Katzav to seven years in prison for rape .
Wednesday March 23, 2011
- Brussels / Belgium : The European Anti-Fraud Office initiates fast-track proceedings against MEPs Ernst Strasser , Zoran Thaler and Adrian Severin on suspicion of corruption .
- Lisbon / Portugal : Prime Minister José Sócrates resigns after a failed vote on his government's austerity budget .
- Oslo / Norway : The American mathematician John Willard Milnor is awarded the Abel Prize.
Thursday March 24, 2011
- Berlin / Germany : In the 20th Echo Awards is online - video clip platform iTunes store company Apple Inc. awarded as a trading partner of the year.
- Naypyidaw / Myanmar : An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 M w in the border area with Laos and Thailand kills at least 75 people.
Friday March 25, 2011
- Berlin / Germany : The Bundestag decides that the Bundeswehr with up to 300 soldiers in AWACS -Aufklärungsflügen over Afghanistan participate is.
- Ottawa / Canada : The conservative minority government under Prime Minister Stephen Harper is overthrown by a vote of no confidence, which will lead to early elections in May.
Saturday March 26, 2011
- Berlin , Cologne / Germany : In several cities in the country a total of around 250,000 opponents of nuclear power are demonstrating for an immediate “ nuclear phase-out ”.
Sunday March 27, 2011
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- Damascus / Syria : President Bashar al-Assad repeals the emergency law, which has been in force since 1963 , thereby fulfilling one of the demands of the demonstrators .
- Mainz / Germany : In the state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate , the previously sole ruling SPD under Prime Minister Kurt Beck loses 9.9 percentage points, but with 35.7% of the votes remains just under the strongest force ahead of the CDU with 35.2%. The Greens achieved 15.4% and the FDP failed to make it into the state parliament with 4.2%.
- Stuttgart / Germany : In the state elections in Baden-Württemberg , the previously ruling CDU and FDP received 39.0% and 5.3% of the vote. The Greens under top candidate Winfried Kretschmann achieve their best result in a state election with 24.2% ; the SPD comes to 23.1%.
- Wiesbaden / Germany : Local election and referendum in Hesse
Monday March 28, 2011
- Chast / Afghanistan : In several Taliban attacks in the Paktika province in the south-east of the country, at least 24 people are killed and more than 53 others are injured.
- Pristina / Kosovo : The Constitutional Court declares the February election of President Behgjet Pacolli unconstitutional .
- Sanaa / Yemen : At least 110 people are killed and more than 150 others are injured in the explosion in an ammunition factory in Abyan Governorate in the south of the country.
Tuesday March 29, 2011
- Damascus / Syria : Following ongoing protests , the government of Prime Minister Muhammad Naji al-Utri announces its resignation, while President Bashar al-Assad remains in office.
- Los Angeles / United States : The Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura is awarded the Pritzker Prize .
- Näs / Sweden : This year's Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize goes to the Australian writer and illustrator Shaun Tan .
- Tikrit / Iraq : At least 65 people are killed in a hostage-taking in the regional parliament.
Wednesday March 30, 2011
- Duékoué / Ivory Coast : More than 800 people die in fights between supporters of President Alassane Ouattara and his predecessor and adversary Laurent Gbagbo .
- London / United Kingdom : Mussa Kussa announces his resignation as Libyan Foreign Minister.
- Naypyidaw / Myanmar : The previous Prime Minister Thein Sein is sworn in as President and the military junta is replaced by a civilian government.
Thursday March 31, 2011
- Mamoudzou / Mayotte : The 374 km² island of Mayotte in the Indic becomes the 101st department of the Republic of France . This is accompanied by their new status as an overseas territory of the European Union and their participation in the common currency, the euro .
- Olten / Switzerland : A letter bomb attack on Swissnuclear , a specialist group made up of representatives from Swiss electricity network companies, was carried out. The letter was addressed to a member of the management of the Mühleberg nuclear power plant .
See also
- Nekrolog March 2011 for deaths this month
- List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in March
- Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in March
Web links
Commons : March 2011 - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ spiegel.de: Bundestag puzzles over possible waiver of mandate (accessed on March 1, 2011).
- ↑ stern.de: Power struggle in Libya: Criminal court investigates Gaddafi (accessed on March 2, 2011).
- ↑ zeit.de: Assassin from Frankfurt planned the act alone (accessed on March 4, 2011)
- ↑ ugrasport.com: IBU World Championships 2011 (accessed on March 5, 2011).
- ↑ tagesspiegel.de: New beginning in Egypt (accessed on March 3, 2011).
- ↑ samoaelection.ws: Election 2011 ( memento of March 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on March 6, 2011).
- ↑ paris-2011.com: Paris 2011 - European Athletics Indoor Championships ( Memento of February 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (Accessed March 6, 2011).
- ↑ derstandard.at: Sic transit "Glory" - US research satellite misses orbit and crashes (accessed on March 4, 2011).
- ↑ abc.net.au: 25 killed in Brazil bus smash (accessed on March 28, 2011).
- ↑ faz.net: From CP member to Moses of integration into the West - The Estonian Prime Minister is the winner of the parliamentary election (accessed on March 7, 2011).
- ↑ derstandard.at: Donation affair - Japan's Foreign Minister Maehara resigned (accessed March 7, 2011).
- ^ Abendblatt.de: Olaf Scholz is mayor - he takes his time with the senators (accessed on March 8, 2011).
- ↑ sz-online.de: Chirac in the dock ( memento from September 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ).
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de : At least 23 dead in attack in Pakistan ( Memento from March 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ focus.de: Enda Kenny new Irish Prime Minister (accessed March 9, 2011).
- ^ Nzz.ch: 36 dead in suicide attack in Pakistan (accessed March 9, 2011).
- ↑ zeit.de: US state of Illinois abolishes the death penalty (accessed on March 10, 2011).
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Natural disaster - at least 24 deaths in quake in China (accessed on March 10, 2011).
- ↑ tagesschau.sf.tv: News ticker on Libya: NATO is not sending any soldiers for the time being (accessed on March 10, 2011).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Explosion in nuclear power plant - government speaks of an unprecedented catastrophe (accessed on March 12, 2011).
- ^ Nzz.ch: Tens of thousands demand the resignation of Yemen's President Saleh (accessed on March 11, 2011).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Earthquake and Tsunami - Japan's Black Day (accessed on March 12, 2011).
- ↑ nachrichten.at: The number of victims after the earthquake in Japan continues to rise (accessed on March 30, 2011).
- ↑ derstandard.at: Portuguese demonstrate, Spain wants to save more (accessed on March 14, 2011).
- ↑ nzz.ch: 15 dead in serious bus accident in New York - metal mast slashes vehicle (accessed on March 13, 2011).
- ↑ dw-world.de: opposition wins runoff in Niger (Accessed on 15 March 2011).
- ↑ stuttgarter-zeitung.de: Demonstration against nuclear power - tens of thousands form human chains (accessed on March 12, 2011).
- ↑ derstandard.at: Police use tear gas against demonstrators (accessed on March 27, 2011).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Atomic Politics -Merkel wants to take old nuclear power plants off the grid (accessed on March 14, 2011).
- ↑ hr-online.de: Ceremony - Ehrlich Prize for Cell Researchers ( Memento from February 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on March 28, 2011).
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Dozens of dead in Taliban attack in Afghanistan (accessed on March 14, 2011).
- ↑ stern.de: Criticism of the stationing of Saudi Arabian troops (accessed on March 15, 2011).
- ↑ kathweb.at: Maronite Church elects Bechara Rai as the new patriarch (accessed on July 31, 2011).
- ↑ bundesregierung.de: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Awards 2011 ( Memento from January 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on March 28, 2011).
- ↑ focus.de: Conflicts - UN: at least 25 dead in Ivory Coast (accessed on March 18, 2011).
- ↑ http://www.leipziger-buchmesse.de/pressemitteilungen/der-preis-der-leipziger-buchmesse-2011- geht-an-clemens-j-setz-henning-ritter-und-barbara-conrad/ 10558
- ↑ stern.de: Pakistan: 38 Taliban killed in US drone attack
- ↑ spiegel.de: UN vote - Security Council approves military operation against Libya (accessed on March 18, 2011).
- ↑ focus.de: Haiti - Ex-President Aristide has returned from exile (accessed on March 18, 2011).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Uprising in Syria - Assad dismisses governor of the unrest province (accessed on March 23, 2011).
- ↑ AFP: More than 50 dead after the attack on Yemen's opposition ( memento from January 24, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on March 18, 2011).
- ↑ zeit.de: Space probe - "Messenger" probe reaches orbit of Mercury (accessed on March 18, 2011).
- ↑ n-tv.de: Historical referendum on the Nile, New Constitution for Egypt (accessed on March 21, 2011).
- ↑ faz.net: After the race was canceled - Riesch took overall victory: “The greatest ever” (accessed on March 19, 2011).
- ↑ tagesschau.de: According to UN resolution - French jets bombard target in Libya ( Memento from March 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on March 19, 2011).
- ↑ https://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/ausland/exil-tibeter-waehlen-neuen-ministerpraesidents-106124045
- ↑ spiegel.de: Election in Saxony-Anhalt - CDU wins, Greens move into parliament (accessed on March 21, 2011).
- ^ Spiegel.de: Runoff election - Carnival singer to be the new President of Haiti (accessed on April 7, 2011).
- ↑ derstandard.at: At least 14 deaths from plane crash in Congo-Brazzaville (accessed on March 22, 2011).
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Euro rescue package - Germany has to pay 22 billion euros (accessed on March 22, 2011).
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Israel - Ex-President Katzav has to be behind bars (accessed on March 22, 2011).
- ^ Diepresse.com: lobbyist affair: identify EU fraud fighters (accessed on March 23, 2011).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Portugal stumbles over austerity program (accessed on March 23, 2011).
- ↑ abelprisen.no: Laureates 2011 (accessed on March 24, 2011).
- ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/panorama/asien-viele-tote-durch-schweres-erdbeben-in-birma-und-thailand/3986654.html
- ↑ dw-world.de: Parliament Approves AWACS mandate (Accessed on 25 March 2011).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Canada's government falls through a vote of no confidence (accessed on March 25, 2011).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Record demos in Germany - nuclear dispute hits coalition with full force (accessed on March 26, 2011).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Protests in Syria - Dictator Assad repeals emergency law (accessed on March 27, 2011).
- ^ Spiegel.de: State election in Rhineland-Palatinate - Gestutzter Beck must court the Greens (accessed on March 27, 2011).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Change of Power in the Ländle - The Green Revolution (accessed on March 27, 2011).
- ↑ de.reuters.com: 24 dead in attacks on construction company in Afghanistan (accessed on March 28, 2011).
- ^ Taz.de: Constitutional crisis in Kosovo - Supreme Court overturns presidential election (accessed on March 29, 2011).
- ↑ focus.de: Conflicts - Yemen is sinking into chaos (accessed on March 28, 2011).
- ↑ Syria - Government surrenders to the protests and resigns (Accessed March 29, 2011).
- ↑ wienerzeitung.at : Pritzker Prize for de Moura ( Memento from January 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ zeit.de: Literature - Shaun Tan receives Lindgren Children's Book Prize (accessed on March 29, 2011).
- ↑ westfaelische-nachrichten.de: hostage drama with 65 dead is being investigated (accessed on March 30, 2011).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Bloody power struggle - More than 800 dead in the Ivory Coast (accessed on April 2, 2011)
- ↑ orf.at: Important confidante of Al-Gaddafi (accessed on March 31, 2011).
- ↑ focus.de: domestic policy - Burma's new civil government with old staff (accessed on March 30, 2011).
- ^ Nzz.ch: A piece of France in the Indian Ocean - the island of Mayotte becomes the 101st department of the country (accessed on April 2, 2011).