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THIS DAY IN HISTORY Thursday, 11 March 2010

	537 The Goths laid siege to Rome.

	1669 The volcano called Etna erupted in Italy, killing 15,000 people.

	1850 The Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania became the world's first women's medical college.

	1918 Moscow became the capital of Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution.

	1926 Eamon de Valera stepped down from his leadership of Sinn Fein, the Irish nationalist party.

	1966 A military coup was led by General Suharto in Indonesia.

	1985 Mikhail Gorbachev replaced Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader.

	1997 The ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry, were launched into space.