Editing Worldpedia:Selected anniversaries/March 11 (section)

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* [[1669]] – [[Mount Etna]] in Sicily '''[[1669 eruption of Mount Etna|began erupting]]'''<!-- ''(depicted)''-->, eventually producing the largest lava flow in the volcano's history, and damaging [[Catania]] and other towns.
* [[1708]] – [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain|Queen Anne]] withheld '''[[royal assent]]''' from the [[Scottish Militia Bill]], in the most recent [[veto#United Kingdom|veto by a British monarch]] of a [[bill (law)|bill]] that had been passed by [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]].
* [[1843]] – During a period of activity known as the Great Eruption, '''[[Eta Carinae]]''' ''(pictured)'' briefly became the [[List of brightest stars|second-brightest star]] in the night sky.
* [[1845]] – [[Māori people|Māori]] forces, led by chiefs [[Te Ruki Kawiti]] and [[Hōne Heke]], [[Battle of Kororāreka|attacked]]<!--not bold; insufficient refs--> the British settlement of [[Russell, New Zealand|Kororāreka, New Zealand]], beginning the '''[[Flagstaff War]]'''.
* [[1851]] – Italian composer [[Giuseppe Verdi]]'s opera '''''[[Rigoletto]]''''' premiered at [[La Fenice]] in [[Venice]].
* [[1978]] – After '''[[Coastal Road massacre|hijacking a bus]]''' north of [[Tel Aviv]], Israel, members of the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] faction [[Fatah]] engaged in a shootout with police, resulting in the deaths of 38 civilians and most of the perpetrators.
* [[1984]] – The [[anime]] film '''''[[Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (film)|Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind]]''''' by [[Hayao Miyazaki]] was released.
* [[2009]] – A teenage gunman engaged in '''[[Winnenden school shooting|a shooting spree]]''' at a secondary school in [[Winnenden]], Germany, killing 16, including himself.
* [[1888]] – The '''[[Great Blizzard of 1888]]''' struck the northeastern United States, producing [[snowdrift]]s in excess of {{convert|50|ft|m|abbr=on}} and confining some people to their houses for up to a week.
* [[2010]] – During the inauguration of Chilean president [[Sebastián Piñera]]<!--not bold, refimprove-->, '''[[2010 Pichilemu earthquakes|earthquakes]]''' registering {{nowrap|6.9 and 7.0 {{M|w|link=yes}}}} struck the [[O'Higgins Region]] near the city of [[Pichilemu]], causing widespread damage.
* [[2011]] – '''[[2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami|A massive earthquake and tsunami]]''' struck [[Tōhoku region|northeastern Japan]]<!-- ''(damage pictured)''--> and triggered '''[[Fukushima nuclear accident|a nuclear accident]]''' at the [[Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant]].
* [[2012]] – [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] soldier [[Robert Bales]] '''[[Kandahar massacre|murdered sixteen civilians]]''' and wounded six others in [[Kandahar Province]], Afghanistan.
* [[2020]] – The [[World Health Organization]] (WHO) officialy declared the [[COVID-19]] outbreak as a '''[[COVID-19 pandemic|pandemic]]'''.

* Born/died: |   '''[[Clemente Tabone]]'''<!--Maltese soldier--> |d|1665| '''[[Benjamin Tupper]]'''<!--American general--> |b|1738| '''[[Anna Bochkoltz]]'''<!--German singer--> |b|1815| '''[[Jane Meade Welch]]'''<!--American journalist--> |b|1854| '''[[Nicolaas Bloembergen]]'''<!-- Dutch physicist--> |b|1920| '''[[Margaret Oakley Dayhoff]]'''<!--American chemist--> |b|1925| '''[[Madam Auring]]'''<!--Filipino fortune teller--> |b|1940 | '''[[Helen Rollason]]'''<!--English journalist--> |b|1956 | '''[[Didier Drogba]]'''<!--Ivorian footballer--> |b|1978| '''[[Cassandra Fairbanks]]'''<!--American journalist--> |b|1985| '''[[Múte Bourup Egede]]'''<!--Greenlandic politician--> |b|1987|