March 11: Independence Day in Lithuania (1990)
Michelle Bachelet
- 1843 – Eta Carinae flared up to become the second brightest star in the night sky.
- 1851 – Italian Romantic composer Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto was first performed at La Fenice in Venice.
- 1946 – Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, was captured by British troops.
- 1978 – After hijacking a bus north of Tel Aviv, members of Palestine Liberation Organization faction Fatah engaged in a shootout with the Israel Police, resulting in the deaths of 38 civilians and most of the perpetrators.
- 2006 – Michelle Bachelet (pictured) was inaugurated as the first female President of Chile.
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