TODAY IN HISTORY 11-3-2011

1861 - Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopted constitution.

1917 - British troops occupied Baghdad.

1918 - Moscow became capital of revolutionary Russia

1913 - Frontier between Nigeria and Cameroon is agreed by Britain and Germany.

1918 - First confirmed cases of the Spanish Flu were observed at Fort Riley, Kansas.

1922 - The South African Industrial Federation, a white miners union, ran riot in the Rand Gold mining district.

1953- Following the murder of a British farmer in Kenya, eleven Kikuyu tribesmen were hanged.

1984- South African government offered to take part in a peace conference with the South-West African People's Organisation (SWAPO)

1986- South African Police fire at three thousand school-children protesting against the arrest of twenty six students.

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