Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 11
This is a list of selected February 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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"Le beau vingt-et-unièm" from La fille du régiment
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Emperor Jimmu of Japan
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1250 – Seventh Crusade: After three days of fighting, the Ayyubids successfully defended Al Mansurah, Egypt, from invading crusaders. | unreferenced section |
| 1808 – Anthracite coal was first experimentally burned as a residential heating fuel by Jesse Fell in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. | unreferenced section |
| 1826 – Swaminarayan wrote the Shikshapatri, a book of 212 verses that serves as the basis of Swaminarayan Hinduism. | neutrality issues |
| 1858 – Fourteen-year-old peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous reported the first of eighteen Marian apparitions in Lourdes, France, resulting in the town becoming a major site for pilgrimages by Catholics. | refimprove |
| 1873 – King Amadeo I of Spain abdicated, proclaimed at the Cortes Generales that Spanish people were "ungovernable," and left the country. | refimprove |
| 1929 – To help settle the "Roman Question", Italy and the Holy See of the Roman Catholic Church signed the Lateran Treaty to establish Vatican City as an independent sovereign enclave within Italy. | refimprove section |
| 1971 – Eighty-seven countries signed the Seabed Arms Control Treaty, outlawing weapons of mass destruction on the ocean floor in international waters. | needs more footnotes |
Eligible
- 660 BC – According to tradition, Emperor Jimmu founded Japan and established his capital in Yamato.
- AD 55 – Britannicus, son of Claudius and heir to the Roman emperorship, died after being poisoned at a dinner party.
- 1826 – London University, later University College London, was founded as the first secular university in England.
- 1840 – La fille du régiment, an opéra comique by Gaetano Donizetti, debuted in Paris to a highly negative review, but went on to become a great success.
- 1851 – As part of the celebration of the separation of Victoria from New South Wales, the initial first-class cricket match in Australia started at the Launceston Racecourse in Tasmania.
- 1919 – Friedrich Ebert was elected provisional President of the German Weimar Republic by the Weimar National Assembly.
- 1938 – The BBC aired an adaptation of Karel Čapek's play R.U.R., the first science fiction television programme ever broadcast.
- 1979 – The Pahlavi dynasty of Iran effectively collapsed when the military declared itself "neutral" after rebel troops overwhelmed forces loyal to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in armed street fighting.
- 1991 – The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization was established to represent the interests of indigenous peoples, minorities, occupied nations, and other areas which lack international representation.
- 2008 – Rebel East Timorese soldiers invaded the homes of President José Ramos-Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão, seriously wounding the former.
- 2015 – A Turkish student was murdered during a rape attempt, sparking mass demonstrations across the nation after her body was discovered two days later.
- Born/died this day: René Descartes (d. 1650) · Ellen Broe (b. 1900) · Keith Holyoake (b. 1904) · Kelly Rowland (b. 1981) · Jennifer Aniston (b. 1969) · Whitney Houston (d. 2012)
February 11: Anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran (1979); National Foundation Day in Japan (660 BC)
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- 1823 – About 110 boys were killed in a human crush at the Convent of the Minori Osservanti in Valletta on the last day of the Maltese Carnival.
- 1968 – Following the deaths of two employees on the job, black sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, agreed to begin a strike that would last more than two months.
- 1990 – Anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela (pictured), having been a political prisoner for 27 years, was released from Victor Verster Prison near Paarl, South Africa.
- 2001 – The Anna Kournikova computer worm, which went on to affect millions of users worldwide, was released by a 20-year-old Dutch student.
Ala-ud-Din Bahman Shah (d. 1358) · Helene Kröller-Müller (b. 1869) · Sylvia Plath (d. 1963)