March 11, the day which is under the "sign" of natural disasters !

On 11 March took place over time, several natural hazards, the violent eruption of Etna in Sicily, in 1974, to something recent earthquake followed by tsunami in Japan.

On March 11, 2011, in Japan there was an earthquake of magnitude 9. This was followed by a devastating tsunami that razed to the ground entire towns.

Nearly 20,000 people were killed or went missing after the tsunami, a catastrophe followed by the nuclear accident in Fukushima. Abolition of the six reactors devastated by the floods will last 40 years, according to Japanese officials.

Also on March 11, but in 1974 there was a violent eruption of Etna in Sicily. It has a height of 3,340 meters, is the highest and most active volcano in Europe. Etna is also the oldest active volcano in the world, it having an activity of over 6000 years.


1513 - He was elected Pope Leo X (secular Giovanni de Medici, son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, Duke of Florence and patron of the arts). Leo pontifical seat occupied between 1513 and 1521.

1818 - It is published novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.

1861 - The Confederation of American States Constitution was adopted, the ten southern states who were separated from northern abolitionist. The war of secession lasted between 1861 and 1865.

1871 - The Conservative government was formed under the leadership of Lascar Catargiu, which will continue until 1976 ("conservative authoritarian government").

1908 - He died writer Edmondo De Amicis ("Cuore - Heart of a Child") (b. October 31, 1846).

1918 - Moscow became the capital of Soviet Russia.

1935 - Hermann Goering creates Lufftwafe, the airborne troops of the Third Reich.

1955 - He died Sir Alexander Fleming, English bacteriologist, discoverer of penicillin (b. August 6, 1881).

1985 - Mikhail S. Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the CPSU CC. Policy reform ("perestroika" and "glasnost") was the beginning of openness to dialogue of the USSR.

1990 - was adopted "Proclamation of Timisoara". Paragraph 8 required by law banning election for the first three consecutive legislatures, the right to candidacy of former communist leaders or security officers.

1993 - Janet Reno becomes the first female US Attorney General.

1995 - The National Council voted for signing protocol PL'93 electoral CDR, which meant out party opposition alliance.

2000 - Economic experts from Romania, Hungary and Germany signed in Debrecen, a trilateral agreement on the development of economic relations of the Romanian-Hungarian border.

2003 - The Blue Helmets of the UN Monitoring Mission for Iraq and Kuwait (MONUIK), carried out along the Iraqi border were ordered to withdraw from Headquarters.

2003 - Washington sent a diplomatic protest Pyongyang on the interception of a US spy plane on March 2 by four North Korean fighter planes in international airspace.

2003 - The International Criminal Court is established at The Hague.

2004 - Held in Madrid, a powerful terrorist attack that resulted in an impressive number of casualties: 200 people died, among them 16 with staying Romanian.

2004 - The European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Romania to intensify efforts to prepare for accession to the Union, without which an accession in 2007 might prove impossible.

2005 - Former Nazi Corporal Paul Schaefer, Colonia Dignidad founder of the German enclave in Chile, convicted pedophile and accused of torturing prisoners during the regime of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), was arrested in Argentina.

2006 - A Slobodan Milosevic died, the former Yugoslav president, who was suffering from heart disease, died in his cell in prison TPI.