March 11: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1702 - The Daily Courant, England's first national daily newspaper is published for the first time.
2. 1824 - The United States Department of War creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
3. 1848 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.
4. 1879 - Shō Tai formally abdicated his position of King of Ryūkyū, under orders from Tokyo, ending the Ryukyu Kingdom
5. 1916 - USS Nevada (BB-36) is commissioned. The first US Navy "super-dreadnought".
6. 1941 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
7. 1990 - Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
8. 1993 - Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
9. 2006 - Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile.
10. 2011 - An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
11. Famous Birthdays: Urbain Le Verrier (French mathematician and astronomer), Vannevar Bush (American engineer), Robert Havemann (German chemist), J. C. R. Licklider (American computer scientist and psychologist), Nicolaas Bloembergen (Dutch-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)

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