From Historynet: Today in History March 11

537             The Goths lay siege to Rome.

1649          The peace of Rueil is signed between the Frondeurs (rebels) and the French government.

1665          A new legal code is approved for the Dutch and English towns, guaranteeing religious observances unhindered.

1702          The Daily Courant, the first regular English newspaper is published.

1810          The Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte  is married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise .

1811          Ned Ludd  leads a group of workers in a wild protest against mechanization.

1824          The U.S. War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Seneca Indian Ely Parker  becomes the first Indian to lead the Bureau.

1845          Seven hundred Maoris led by their chief, 

Hone-Heke , burn the small town of Kororareka in protest at the settlement of Maoriland by Europeans, in breach with the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.

1861          A Confederate Convention is held in Montgomery, Ala., where the new constitution is adopted.

1863          Union troops under General Ulysess S. Grant  give up their preparations to take Vicksburg after failing to pass Fort Pemberton, north of Vicksburg.

1865          Union General William Sherman  and his forces occupy Fayetteville, N.C.

1888          A disastrous blizzard hits the northeastern United States. Some 400 people die, mainly from exposure.

1900          British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury  rejects the peace overtures offered from Boer leader Paul Kruger .

1905          The Parisian subway is officially inaugurated.

1907          President Teddy Roosevelt  induces California to revoke its anti-Japanese legislation.

1930          President Howard Taft  becomes the first U.S. president to be buried in the National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.

1935          The German Air Force becomes an official organ of the Reich.

1941          President Franklin D. Roosevelt  authorizes the Lend-Lease Act which authorizes the act of giving war supplies to the Allies.

1942          General Douglas MacArthur  leaves Bataan for Australia.

1965          The American navy begins inspecting Vietnamese junks in hopes of ending arms smuggling to the South.

1966          Three member of the Nation of Islam are convicted of the murder of Malcolm X .

1969          Levi-Strauss starts to sell bell-bottomed jeans.

1973          An FBI agent is shot at Wounded Knee in South Dakota.

1985          Mikhail Gorbachev  is named the new Soviet leader.

1990           Lithuania declares its independence from the Soviet Union.