This Day In History.

March   11
1985 --  Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader

1970 --  Iraq Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation

1954 --  US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics

1953 --  1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams)

1945 --  1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs

1943 --  Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands

1942 --  Japanese troop land on North-Sumatra

1942 --  Gen MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia

1942 --  1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschewitz Concentration Camp

1917 --  British troops occupy Baghdad

1865 --  Gen Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, NC

1862 --  12] Gen Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia Army of the Potomac. Gen Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief

1779 --  US army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)