Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 11
This is a list of selected December 11 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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December 11: Republic Day in Burkina Faso (1958)
- 1905 – In a sign of support for the December Uprising in Moscow, the Council of Workers' Deputies of Kiev decided to stage a mass uprising, establishing the Shuliavka Republic in the city.
- 1946 – The United Nations General Assembly created UNICEF, originally to help provide emergency food and health care to children in countries that had been devastated by World War II.
- 1981 – About 900 civilians in El Salvador were killed in the El Mozote massacre.
- 2006 – The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust opened in Tehran "to provide an appropriate scientific atmosphere for scholars to offer their opinions in freedom about a historical issue", but was criticised worldwide as a "meeting of Holocaust deniers".
- 2008 – American stock broker Bernard Madoff (pictured) was arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme, the largest such in history.