Timeline March 2011

Events in March 2011 12

• 1925 – 2011 Farley Granger (1925-2011) American actor known for two Hitchcock films, Rope and Strangers on a Train.
• 1932 – 2011 Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) Died 23 March 2011, aged 79 The British-American actress, a two-time Academy Award winner known for films including "Cleopatra" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", died in Los Angeles of congestive heart failure. She was one of the last major stars of Hollywood's golden age. She was also known for her AIDS activism and jewelry collection.
• 1935 – 2011 Geraldine Ferraro (1935-2011) Died 26 March 2011, aged 75 The American politician became the first woman nominated for vice president on a major party ticket when Walter Mondale chose her as his running mate in 1984. She served in the U.S. House of Representatives representing New York. She died in Boston of complications from multiple myeloma.
• 2011 Iditarod 2011 Winner: John Baker — 8 days 18h (record) John Baker, Inupiaq from Kotzebue, set a new course record of 8 days 18 hours 46 minutes that stood for years. He dedicated the win to his village and Alaska Native heritage.
• 2011 Marries Honor Dillon Life beyond the rugby field Carter married Honor Dillon, a former Silver Ferns netball international, in Christchurch in 2011. The couple later had three children together, and Honor became a well-known supporting presence throughout the later years of Carter's playing career in France and Japan.
• 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster Worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl The March 11, 2011 tsunami caused three reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, forcing 154,000 people to evacuate.
• 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami 19,000 killed, Fukushima meltdown A magnitude 9.1 earthquake off Japan's Tohoku coast on March 11, 2011 generated a devastating tsunami killing nearly 19,000 people and triggering the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
• 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami — supply chain devastated The Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami of 11 March 2011 devastates Japan's northeast, killing nearly 20,000 people and triggering the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Toyota's supply chain is severely disrupted: dozens of suppliers are destroyed or damaged; Toyota halts production at all Japanese plants for weeks. Global Toyota production falls 37% in April 2011. The disaster exposes the vulnerability of Toyota's highly concentrated Japanese supply chain and accelerates Toyota's strategy of localising production closer to final markets.
• 2011 Syrian Civil War begins Protests in Daraa spiral into nationwide uprising Anti-government protests broke out in the southern city of Daraa after the arrest and torture of teenagers who had painted revolutionary graffiti, quickly spreading across Syria as part of the wider Arab Spring. President Bashar al-Assad's violent crackdown on demonstrators escalated the unrest into an armed insurgency and, eventually, a full civil war. The conflict would go on to kill hundreds of thousands and displace millions over the following decade.
• 2011 NATO intervention in Libya Airstrikes support rebel forces against Gaddafi Acting under a UN Security Council resolution, NATO conducted a bombing campaign against forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi to protect civilians during the Libyan Civil War. The intervention ran from March to October 2011 and was decisive in the rebels' eventual victory. It was one of the alliance's largest combat operations since Kosovo.
• 2011 Amy Winehouse records Body and Soul with Tony Bennett Last recording Her final studio recording.
• 2011 Farley Granger dies in New York Farley Granger dies aged 85.