Here are some historical events that occurred on March 11th in the history of the United States of America:
1810: The U.S. Congress authorized the creation of the Revenue Cutter Service, which would later become the United States Coast Guard.
1861: The Confederate States of America adopted its first constitution.
1888: The Great Blizzard of 1888 struck the northeastern United States, causing widespread damage and loss of life.
1930: President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which raised U.S. tariffs to historically high levels and is often cited as a contributing factor to the Great Depression.
1965: The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a group of civil rights demonstrators on a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to demand voting rights for African Americans.
1993: Janet Reno was confirmed as the first female Attorney General of the United States.
2004: Ten bombs exploded on four commuter trains in Madrid, Spain, killing 191 people and injuring more than 2,000. The attacks were later linked to an Al-Qaeda affiliate.
2011: A magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Japan, triggering a devastating tsunami that killed thousands of people and caused a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
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