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Terrorist bombings in Madrid: 11 March 2004 - This Day in History
On this day in 2004, Madrid suffered a series of terrorist attacks when 10 bombs, detonated by Islamist militants, exploded on four trains at three different rail stations, killing 191 people and injuring some 1,800 others. More Events on this day: 1959:Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun became the first play by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway. 1941: The U.S. Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act. 1930:William Howard Taft was the first U.S. president to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. 1926: African American civil rights leader Ralph David Abernathy was born in Linden, Alabama. 1544:Torquato Tasso, the greatest Italian poet of the late Renaissance, was born in Sorrento, Kingdom of Naples. |
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The Madrid Train Bombings (2004)
 On the morning of March 11, 2004, 10 explosions occurred aboard four commuter trains in Madrid. The series of coordinated bombings killed 191 people and wounded 2,050, making it the deadliest terrorist attack in Spain's history. Although a Basque militant group was originally suspected of the attack, an investigation revealed that it was carried out by an al-Qaeda-inspired terrorist cell. The bombings occurred three days before Spain's general elections and exactly 911 days after what event? Discuss
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Courrières Mine Disaster (1906)
 The Courrières mine disaster, the worst mining accident in European history, killed 1,099 miners in Northern France. It is generally agreed that the majority of the deaths and destruction were caused by an explosion of dust which swept through the mine, however, it has never been ascertained what caused the coal dust to ignite in the first place. A group of thirteen survivors, later known as the rescapés, was found by rescuers twenty days after the explosion. How had they survived?
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Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations Is Published (1776)
 Published in 1776, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of Scottish economist Adam Smith. It is a clearly written account of political economy at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution and is considered the first modern work in the field of economics. In it, Smith postulates the theory of the division of labor and emphasizes that value arises from the labor expended in the process of production. What was Smith's concept of "the invisible hand"?
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