Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 11
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March 11: Holi (Hinduism, 2009); Independence Day in Lithuania
- 1649 – The Peace of Rueil was signed, signaling an end to the opening episodes of the Fronde, France's civil war, after little blood had been shed.
- 1851 – Italian Romantic composer Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto was first performed at La Fenice in Venice.
- 1879 – Japan annexed the Ryūkyū Kingdom into what would become the Okinawa Prefecture.
- 1917 – World War I: British forces led by Sir Stanley Maude captured Baghdad, the southern capital of the Ottoman Empire.
- 1966 – In power since World War II, President Sukarno of Indonesia (pictured) was essentially ousted by Suharto and the military after being forced to sign the Presidential Order Supersemar.
- 2004 – A series of simultaneous bombings on Cercanías commuter trains killed 191 people and wounded more than 1,800 in the Spanish capital of Madrid.