On this day — March 11

including 3 Buddhist monks, during the Pinlaung massacre in Shan State, Myanmar.

killing all 11 people on board.

Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.

Aftershocks of the 2010 Pichilemu earthquakes hit central Chile during the ceremony.

Fifteen are killed and nine are injured before recent graduate Tim Kretschmer shoots and kills himself, leading to tightened weapons restrictions in Germany.

carrying the first component of the Japanese Kibō module to the International Space Station.

Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain kill 191 people.

making Gorbachev the USSR's de facto, and last, head of state.