Reuters historical calendar - March 11

LONDON, Mar 10 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on March 11 since 1900: 1917 - British and Indian troops marched into Baghdad in World War One, capturing 9,000 Turkish prisoners.

1941 - The US Congress passed the Lend-Lease Bill, enabling Britain to borrow money to buy food and arms during World War Two.

1955 - Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin in 1928, died.

1973 - Hector Campora won the first presidential election to be held in Argentina since 1965.

1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev became head of the Soviet Union after the death of Konstantin Chernenko. At 54, he was the youngest member of the ruling Politburo.

1990 - Lithuania's parliament proclaimed the restoration of the Baltic republic's pre-World War Two independence from the Soviet Union, the first Soviet republic to break away.

2001 - Zapatista Subcommander Marcos and 23 rebel leaders made a triumphant entry into Mexico City after a 12-state march from their jungle hideout in their campaign for Indian rights.

2002 - The Bosnian Serb Democratic Party replaced its founder Radovan Karadzic as president with Dragan Kalinic and insisted it had turned over a new leaf.

2003 - Libya reached political agreement with the US and Britain to accept civil responsibility for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing and pay 10 million dollar each to victims' families.

2004 - Simultaneous bomb blasts ripped through four packed commuter trains in Madrid, killing 191 people in one of Europe's bloodiest guerrilla attacks.

2005 - Almost all Syrian troops left north Lebanon, ending an unbroken 29-year presence and underlining Syria's diminishing role in its small neighbour.

2005 - Italian crooner Aurelio Fierro, who kept the tradition of Neapolitan song alive with favourites like ''Guaglione'' -- or ''Little Boy'' -- and ''Lazzarella'', the Italian word for a spirited young girl, died aged 81.

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