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03-11-2005 06:27 AM |
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MARCH 11th: On this date in:
1810 Emperor Napoleon of France was married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria.
1861 The Confederate convention in Montgomery, Ala., adopted a constitution.
1888 The ''Blizzard of '88'' struck the northeastern United States, resulting in some 400 deaths.
1942 As Japanese forces continued to advance in the Pacific during World War II, Gen. Douglas MacArthur left the Philippines for Australia, vowing: ''I shall return.''
1965 A white minister from Boston, the Rev. James J. Reeb, died after whites beat him during civil rights disturbances in Selma, Ala.
1970 The album ''Deja Vu'' by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young was released.
1977 More than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims were freed after ambassadors from three Islamic nations joined the negotiations.
1978 Palestinian guerrillas went on a rampage on the Tel Aviv-Haifa highway, killing 34 Israelis.
1985 Mikhail S. Gorbachev was chosen to succeed the late Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko.
1990 The Lithuanian parliament voted to break away from the Soviet Union and restore its independence.
1993 Janet Reno was unanimously confirmed by the Senate to be the nation's first female attorney general.
1993 North Korea withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in a harsh rebuff of Western demands to open suspected nuclear weapons development sites for inspection.
1997 Rock musician Paul McCartney was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
2002 Two columns of light soared skyward from ground zero in New York as a temporary memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.
2002 Israel lifted Yasser Arafat's three-month confinement in West Bank.
2004 Ten bombs exploded in quick succession across the commuter rail network in Madrid, Spain, killing 191 people and wounding more than 2,000 in an attack linked to al-Qaida.
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