On March 11, 1938, German forces marched into Austria.
In 1941 President Franklin Roosevelt signed into law the Lend-Lease Bill, providing war supplies to countries fighting the Axis.
In 1942, as Japanese forces advanced in the Pacific during World War II, Gen. Douglas MacArthur left the Philippines for Australia.
In 1959 “A Raisin in the Sun” opened in New York.
In 1976 President Richard Nixon acknowledged he ordered the CIA to try to keep Marxist Salvador Allende from becoming president of Chile in 1970.
In 1990 the Lithuanian parliament voted to break away from the Soviet Union and reclaim independence.
In 2004, 10 bombs exploded in Madrid’s commuter rail network, killing 191 people.
In 2006 ex-Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic, 64, was found dead of a heart attack in his prison cell in the Netherlands, ending his four-year UN war crimes trial.
