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March 11 is the 70th day of the year (71st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; ... This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, ...
March 11: Commonwealth Day in the Commonwealth of Nations (2024); National Heroes and Benefactors Day in Belize (2024) Dale Dyke Dam in Sheffield, after its rupture 1864 – The Great Sheffield Flood killed at least 240 people and damaged more than 600 homes, after a crack in the Dale Dike Reservoir (pictured) caused it to fail.
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Spain marked the 20th anniversary of the terrorist Madrid train bombings of March 11, 2004, that killed 191 people as experts say there are lessons learned on the importance of fighting Al Qaeda.
Events. 1779 - Army Corps of Engineers for the United States is authorized by the Congress; 1824 - The United States War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.; 1861 - American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
Habitat’s Women Build Month provides a platform for women to effect positive change through construction projects and community outreach.
1597 - Birth of Jean-Charles della Faille, Belgian mathematician (d. 1652); 1610 - Birth of John Pell, English mathematician (d. 1685); 1700 - Sweden introduces its own Swedish calendar, in an attempt to gradually merge into the Gregorian calendar, reverts to the Julian calendar on this date in 1712, and introduces the Gregorian calendar on this date in 1753
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