Reuters historical calendar - March 11

March 4 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major events to have occurred on March 11 since 1900:

1917 - British and Indian troops marched into Baghdad in World War One, capturing 9,000 Turkish prisoners.

1941 - The U.S. Congress passed the Lend-Lease Bill, enabling Britain to borrow money to buy food and arms during World War Two.

1955 - Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin in 1928, died.

1973 - Hector Campora won the first presidential election to be held in Argentina since 1965.

1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party after the death of Konstantin Chernenko. At 54, he was the youngest member of the ruling Politburo.

1990 - Lithuania's parliament proclaimed the restoration of the Baltic republic's pre-World War Two independence from the Soviet Union, the first Soviet republic to break away.

2001 - Zapatista Subcommander Marcos and 23 rebel leaders made a triumphant entry into Mexico City after a 12-state march from their jungle hideout in their campaign for Indian rights.

2003 - Libya reached political agreement with the United States and Britain to accept civil responsibility for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing and pay $10 million each to victims' families.

2004 - Simultaneous bomb blasts ripped through four packed commuter trains in Madrid, killing 191 people in one of Europe's bloodiest guerrilla attacks.

2005 - Almost all Syrian troops left north Lebanon, ending an unbroken 29-year presence and underlining Syria's diminishing role in its small neighbour.

2006 - Slobodan Milosevic was found dead in his cell at The Hague, only months before a verdict was due in his war crimes trial. Serbian president from 1990 until his overthrow in 2000, he was 64.

2009 - French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced that France would rejoin NATO's military command, more than 40 years after President Charles de Gaulle pulled out of the alliance's inner circle.

REUTERS