Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/March/March 11

1862 - Shōgun Iemochi marries the emperor's sister Kazunomiya in an effort to unite the court and the Shōgunate. (Traditional Japanese Date: Eleventh Day of the Second Month, 1862)
1922 - Pilot Gotō Yūkichi and three passengers participate in Japan's first passenger flight.
1946 - The six major Tokyo universities (University of Tokyo, Waseda University, Keiō University, Hōsei University, Meiji University and Rikkyō University) form the six universities baseball league.
1970 - A Pan American Boeing 747 becomes the first jumbo jet to land in Japan. The plane carried 172 passengers, and after a 3 hour stop over it returned to Honolulu. Over 10,000 people went to Haneda Airport to see it.
1984 - Animator Miyazaki Hayao's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind opens in Tōkyō.
1992 - The price of can drinks in vending machines is increased from 100 to 110 yen.