Chinese President Xi Jinping casts a vote during the third plenary session of the first session of the 13th National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, March 11, 2018. Representatives of the National People's Congress voted for an amendment to abolish the office of the current head of state. Term limit. File photo: Hwee Young/EPA-EFE
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus a pandemic, with more than 118,000 cases and 4,300 deaths. File photo: Morteza Nikoubazl/UPI
In 1918, Spanish flu patients are hospitalized in a makeshift ward at Camp Funston, Kansas.File photo provided by: U.S. Army
On March 11, 1930, William Howard Taft became the first former U.S. president and chief justice to be buried in the National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. File photo: Kevin Dietsch/UPI
Attorney General Janet Reno appoints a special prosecutor to investigate presidential candidate Vice President Al Gore's campaign fundraising activities in the run-up to the 1996 election, August 23, 2000 in Washington, D.C. He said he would not. On March 11, 1993, she was sworn in as the country's first female attorney general with unanimous approval by the U.S. Senate in Reno. File photo: Chris Corder/UPI
On March 11, 2006, former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, on trial for war crimes, was found dead of an apparent heart attack in his prison cell in The Hague. UPI file photo
On March 11, 2011, Japan was hit by a magnitude 9 earthquake that occurred approximately 330 miles northeast of Tokyo. File photo: Keizo Mori/UPI
March 11 (UPI) — This day in history:
In 1824, the U.S. War Department established the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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In 1845, John Chapman, known as Johnny Appleseed, died in Allen County, Indiana.
In 1861, in Montgomery, Alabama, representatives from South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas adopted the Permanent Constitution of the Confederate States of America.
In 1918, the first case of Spanish flu was reported in the United States. By 1920, the virus had killed up to 22 million people worldwide and 500,000 in the United States.
In 1930, William Howard Taft became the first former U.S. president and chief justice to be buried in the National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.
In 1942, after struggling to save the Philippines from Japanese conquest, U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur, on the orders of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, abandoned his fortress on Corregidor Island and abandoned 90,000 American and Filipino troops. left behind.
In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev, the youngest member of the ruling Politburo, was elected as leader of the Communist Party to replace President Konstantin Chernenko, marking the final time the post-World War II generation assumed power.
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In 1990, Lithuania declared independence from Moscow in a long-awaited move, sparking the first breakup of the Soviet Union since the communist state was founded nearly 70 years earlier.
In 1993, Janet Reno won unanimous approval in the U.S. Senate to become the country's first female attorney general.
In 2004, 10 bombs exploded almost simultaneously on four commuter trains in Madrid, killing 191 people and injuring 1,400.
In 2006, former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, on trial for war crimes, was found dead of an apparent heart attack in his prison cell in The Hague.
In 2006, Michelle Bachelet, who was tortured during Chile's military dictatorship, became the country's first female president.
In 2011, Japan was hit by a magnitude 9 earthquake about 330 miles northeast of Tokyo. The earthquake triggered a tsunami that swept away people, homes, vehicles, and ships. Tens of thousands of buildings were destroyed and nuclear power plants were damaged, including one where three reactors melted down. The death toll from this disaster reached nearly 15,900.
In 2018, China's legislature almost unanimously approved a constitutional amendment that formally removed term limits, allowing Xi Jinping to remain president for life.
In 2020, the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus a pandemic, with more than 118,000 infections and 4,300 deaths in 114 countries. A year later, COVID-19 has killed more than 2.5 million of her people.
In 2022, Russian forces kidnapped and arrested Ivan Fedorov, the mayor of Melitopol. Russian authorities released him from captivity five days later.
File photo: Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA-EFE
