March 11: Independence Day in Lithuania (1990)
- 1649 – The Peace of Rueil was signed, signaling an end to the opening episodes of the Fronde, France's civil war, after little blood had been shed.
- 1879 – Japan annexed the Ryūkyū Kingdom into what would become the Okinawa Prefecture.
- 1941 – World War II: The Lend-Lease Act was signed into law, allowing the United States to supply the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China,France and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war material.
- 1966 – President Sukarno of Indonesia (pictured) was essentially ousted bySuharto and the military after being forced to sign the Presidential OrderSupersemar, giving Suharto authority to take whatever measures he deemed necessary to restore order during the Indonesian killings.
- 2004 – A series of simultaneous bombings on Cercanías commuter trains killed 191 people and wounded more than 1,800 in Madrid.
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