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Mar 11, 1930: William Howard Taft became the first U.S. president to be buried in the National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.

Mar 11, 1985: Mikhail Gorbachev became head of the Soviet Union following the death of Konstantin Chernenko. At 54, he was the youngest member of the ruling Politburo.

Mar 11, 1888: A torrential rainstorm hit the East Coast. The rain turned to snow the next day and it became the Blizzard of 1888, the most famous snowstorm in American history. It caused more than 400 deaths.

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