Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 11
This is a list of selected March 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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President Sukarno of Indonesia -
King Shō Tai of the Ryūkyū Kingdom -
Flooding caused by the tsunami following the Tōhoku earthquake -
Monument to the victims of the 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings in Alcalá de Henares
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 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. | refimprove |
| 1845 – Māori forces led by chiefs Kawiti and Hone Heke destroyed the British settlement of Kororareka in New Zealand, beginning the Flagstaff War. | more footnotes |
| 1848 – Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin became the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government. | Lafontaine: needs expert attention |
| 1917 – First World War: British forces led by Sir Stanley Maude captured Baghdad, the southern capital of the Ottoman Empire. | Tagged with {{inline}} |
| 1966 – Indonesian President Sukarno was forced to sign the Presidential Order Supersemar, giving Suharto the authority to take whatever measures he deemed necessary to restore order during the Indonesian killings. | refimprove section |
| 1983 – Pakistan successfully conducted a cold test of a nuclear weapon. | unreliable source |
| 1990 – Patricio Aylwin was sworn in as the first President of Chile after its return to democratic rule following the military government of General Augusto Pinochet. | unreferenced sections |
| 1990 – Lithuania became the first Soviet republic to proclaim independence – an act that ultimately contributed to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991. | needs more footnotes |
| 1993 – Janet Reno was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the first female Attorney General of the United States. | neutrality disputed |
| 2004 – A series of simultaneous bombings on Cercanías commuter trains killed 191 people and wounded more than 1,800 in Madrid. | expansion |
| 2011 – A massive earthquake struck the northeastern coast of Japan and triggered a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. | outdated |
Eligible
- 222 – Disgusted with Roman emperor Elagabalus's disregard for Roman religious traditions and sexual taboos, the Praetorian Guard assassinated him and his mother Julia Soaemias, mutilated their bodies, and threw them in the Tiber River.
- 1708 – Queen Anne withheld royal assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoed legislation.
- 1864 – A crack in the Dale Dyke Dam in Sheffield, England, caused it to fail, and the resulting flood killed 238 people and damaged more than 600 homes.
- 1867 – Don Carlos, Giuseppe Verdi's opera based on conflicts in the life of Carlos, Prince of Asturias, made its debut with the Paris Opera at the Salle Le Peletier.
- 1879 – Shō Tai, the last king of the Ryūkyū Kingdom, abdicated when the kingdom was annexed by Japan and became Okinawa Prefecture.
- 1888 – The Great Blizzard of 1888 struck the northeastern United States, producing snowdrifts in excess of 50 ft (15 m) and confining some people to their houses for up to a week.
- 1941 – World War II: The Lend-Lease Act was signed into law, allowing the United States to supply the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, France and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war materiel.
- 1945 – World War II: The Empire of Japan established the Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived puppet state, with Bảo Đại as its ruler.
`* 1977 – After a 39-hour standoff, the gunmen who had seized three buildings in Washington, D.C., and had taken over 130 hostages, surrendered to authorities.
- 2007 – Georgian authorities accused Russia of orchestrating a helicopter attack in the Kodori Valley of the breakaway territory of Abkhazia.
- 2009 – A teenage gunman engaged in a shooting spree at a secondary school in Winnenden, Germany, killing sixteen, including himself.
- 2012 – United States Army officer Robert Bales murdered sixteen civilians and wounded six others in the Panjwayi District of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.
Notes
- La traviata and Nabucco (both Verdi operas) appear on March 6 and March 9 respectively, so neither Rigoletto nor Don Carlos should appear in the same year
March 11: Independence Day in Lithuania (1990)
- 1843 – Eta Carinae flared up to become the second brightest star in the night sky.
- 1851 – Italian Romantic composer Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto was first performed at La Fenice in Venice.
- 1946 – Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, was captured by British troops.
- 1978 – After hijacking a bus north of Tel Aviv, members of Palestine Liberation Organization faction Fatah engaged in a shootout with the Israel Police, resulting in the deaths of 38 civilians and most of the perpetrators.
- 2006 – Michelle Bachelet (pictured) was inaugurated as the first female President of Chile.