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Today is Tuesday 11 March, the 70th day of 2025. There are still 295 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On 11 March 2011, an earthquake with Magnitude-9 and resulting Tsunami met the northeastern coast of Japan, killing nearly 20,000 people and the nuclear power plant of Fukushima Daiichi seriously damaged.
Also on this date:
In 1918 it was assumed that it was reported to the first confirmed American cases of a deadly global flu pandemic to US Army, stationed in Fort Riley, Kansas; 46 soldiers would die. (The outbreak of the flu would ultimately kill an estimated 20 million to 40 million people worldwide.)
In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease Act, who provided war stocks to Allied countries during the Second World War.
In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev was chosen to succeed the deceased Konstantin Chersenko as the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
In 2004, three days before general elections in Spain, 10 bombs quickly exploded in command trains in Madrid, killing 193 people in an attack linked to al-Qaida inspired militants.
In 2006, the former Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević was found dead at the age of 64 of a heart attack in his prison chat in the Netherlands, which abruptly ended his four-year-old VN War crimes test.
In 2010, a Federal Court of Appeal in San Francisco confirmed the use of the words “under God” in the promise of Trouw and “In God we trust” on the American currency.
In 2012, US Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales shot and killed 16 Afghan villagers – mainly women and children – while sleeping. (Bales later argued guilty and were sentenced to life in prison without conditional release.)
In 2021, President Joe Biden signed a $ 1.9 trillion Covid help package in the law that he said would help defeat the virus and beat the economy again. Americans with a lower income would receive up to $ 1,400 in direct payments, together with extensive unemployment benefits.
Today’s birthdays:
- Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch is 94.
- Former ABC news correspondent Sam Donaldson is 91.
- Musician Flaco Jimenez (Flah’-Koh Hee-Meh’-Nez) is 86.
- Singer Bobby McFerrin is 75.
- Actor Elias Koteas (Ee-Ly’-Uhs Koh-Tay’-Uhs) is 64.
- Actor Alex Kingston is 62.
- Actor John Barrowman is 58.
- Singer Lisa Loeb is 57.
- Actor Terrence Howard is 56.
- Actor Johnny Knoxville is 54.
- Basketball Hall of Famer Becky Hammon is 48.
- Rock musicians Benji and Joel Madden (Good Charlotte; The Madden Brothers) are 46.
- Singer Letoya Luckett is 44.
- Actor Thora Birch is 43.
- Actor Jodie Comer is 32.