March 11

On This Day In History
	2004: Terrorist bombings in Madrid On this day in 2004, Madrid suffered a series of terrorist attacks when 10 bombs, detonated by Islamist militants, exploded on four trains at three different rail stations, killing 191 people and injuring some 1,800 others.
Rescue workers evacuating the bodies of victims of a terrorist train bombing near Atocha Station
Biography Of The Day
	Harold Wilson Harold Wilson, born this day in 1916 and a cabinet minister by age 31, led the Labour Party to victory in four of five general elections and was prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1976.
Harold Wilson
More Events On This Day In History
	1985 Mikhail Gorbachev succeeded Konstantin Chernenko as leader of the Soviet Union.
1959	1959 Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun became the first play by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway.
	1942 During World War II, Allied forces in the Southwest Pacific Theatre came under the command of U.S. General Douglas MacArthur following his tour on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines.
1941	1941 The U.S. Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act.
	1930 William Howard Taft was the first U.S. president to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.
	1926 African American civil rights leader Ralph David Abernathy was born in Linden, Alabama.
	1544 Torquato Tasso, the greatest Italian poet of the late Renaissance, was born in Sorrento, Kingdom of Naples.