March 11

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[edit] Events

• 1801 - Paul I of Russia is assassinated, leading the way for his son Alexander I to accede the throne.
• 1918 - Spanish Flu, first observed at Fort Riley, Kansas
• 1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader.

[edit] Births

• 1895 - Douglas Reed, British journalist and author (d. 1976)
• 1916 - Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)

[edit] Deaths

• 222 - Elagabalus, Roman Emperor
• 222 - Julia Soaemias, mother of Elagabalus (b. 180)
• 2006 - Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia (b. 1941)