TUESDAY, March 11, 2025

1966-Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out

1985-Mikhail Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader

2011-9.0 magnitude earthquake strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people and causing the second worst nuclear accident in history at Fukushima nuclear plant

2018-China's National People's Congress approves removal of term limits for a leader, allowing Xi Jinping to be presidency for life

2020-COVID-19 declared a pandemic by the head of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, after 121,564 cases worldwide and 4,373 deaths