TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – MARCH 11
0537 The Goths lay siege to Rome.
1665 A new legal code is approved for the Dutch and English towns, guaranteeing religious observances unhindered.
1811 Ned Ludd leads a group of workers in a wild protest against mechanization.
1824 The U.S. War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Seneca Indian Ely Parker becomes the first Indian to lead the Bureau.
1888 A torrential rainstorm hit the East Coast. The rain turned to snow the next day and it became the Blizzard of 1888, the most famous snowstorm in American history. It caused more than 400 deaths.
1905 The Parisian subway is officially inaugurated.
1930 President Howard Taft becomes the first U.S. president to be buried in the National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.
1931 The work on the Boulder Dam was started after having been approved in 1928 and when completed it will be the worlds tallest dam at over 700 ft.
1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorizes the Lend-Lease Act which authorizes the act of giving war supplies to the Allies.
1942 1st deportation train leaves Paris France for Auschewitz Concentration Camp
1969 Levi-Strauss starts to sell bell-bottomed jeans.
1973 An FBI agent is shot at Wounded Knee in South Dakota.
1977 Film director Roman Polanski is charged with four charges including rape, sodomy, child molestation and giving drugs to a minor in the case raping a 13-year-old girl at the home of Hollywood star Jack Nicholson. While awaiting trial Polanski jumped bail and fled to France in February 1978
1977 Moslems hold 130 hostages in Washington DC
1985 Mikhail Gorbachev is named the new Soviet leader.
1993 Janet Reno won unanimous Senate confirmation to be the first female U.S. Attorney General.
1993 North Korea withdraws from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
2004 Four trains in the Madrid area are attacked by terrorists using 10 bombs exploded via mobile telephone, 191 are killed during the attacks
2011 9.0 magnitude earthquake strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people and causing the second worst nuclear accident in history at Fukushima nuclear plant
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