Editing Worldpedia:Selected anniversaries/March 11

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==Images==
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File:Maude in Baghdad.jpg|British soldiers entering Baghdad
File:Presiden Sukarno dyk.jpg|President Sukarno of Indonesia
File:King Sho Tai.jpg|King Shō Tai of the Ryūkyū Kingdom
File:Monumento 11M, Alcalá de Henares, España (15).JPG|Monument to the victims of the 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings in Alcalá de Henares
File:Eta Carinae.jpg|Eta Carinae and the surrounding [[Homunculus Nebula]]
File:Michelle Bachelet foto campaña.jpg|Michelle Bachelet
File:Etna eruzione 1669 platania.jpg|Fresco of the eruption of Mount Etna by [[Giacinto Platania]]
File:SendaiAirportMarch16.jpg|Aftermath of the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami at [[Sendai Airport]]
File:Great Sheffield Flood.jpg|Dale Dyke Dam in Sheffield, after its rupture
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==Ineligible==
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| [[List of national independence days|Independence Day]]<!--[[Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania]] not linked; needs more footnotes--> in '''[[Lithuania]]''' ([[1990]])
| Independence day not mentioned in target article
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| '''[[Maha Shivaratri]]''' (Hinduism, 2021)
| CN tags
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| [[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
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| [[1795]] – '''[[Battle of Kharda]]''', fought between the [[Maratha Confederacy]] and the [[Nizam of Hyderabad]], resulting in Maratha victory.
| stubby
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| [[1848]] – '''[[Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine]]''' and '''[[Robert Baldwin]]''' became the first [[Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada|Prime Ministers]] of the [[Province of Canada]] to be democratically elected under a system of [[responsible government]].
| Lafontaine: needs expert attention
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| [[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]].
| unreferenced section
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| [[1917]] – [[World War I|First World War]]: British forces led by Sir [[Frederick Stanley Maude|Stanley Maude]] '''[[Fall of Baghdad (1917)|captured Baghdad]]''', the southern capital of the [[Ottoman Empire]].
| needs more footnotes
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| [[1941]] – [[World War II]]: The '''[[Lend-Lease|Lend-Lease Act]]''' was signed into law, allowing the United States to supply the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, France and other [[Allies of World War II|Allied nations]] with vast amounts of war materiel.
| too many quotes, essay-like
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| [[1983]] – Pakistan '''[[Project-706|successfully conducted]]''' a [[Nuclear weapons testing#Types of nuclear weapons tests|cold test]] of a [[nuclear weapon]].
| unreliable source
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| [[1990]] – '''[[Patricio Aylwin]]''' was sworn in as the first [[List of presidents of Chile|President of Chile]] after its [[Chilean transition to democracy|return to democratic rule]] following the military government of General [[Augusto Pinochet]].
| refimprove section
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| [[1990]] – Lithuania became the first [[Republics of the Soviet Union|Soviet republic]] to '''[[Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania|proclaim independence]]'''{{snd}}an act that ultimately contributed to the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]].
| needs more footnotes
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| [[2004]] – '''[[2004 Madrid train bombings|A series of simultaneous bombings]]''' on [[Cercanías]] commuter trains killed 191 people and wounded more than 1,800 in [[Madrid]]<!-- ''(memorial pictured)''-->.
| expansion
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|  '''[[Sophronius of Jerusalem]]'''<!--Syrian patriarch--> |d|638| 
| unref'd section
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|* [[222]] – Disaffected with [[Roman emperor]] '''[[Elagabalus]]'''{{`s}} disregard for Roman religious traditions and sexual [[taboo]]s, the [[Praetorian Guard]] assassinated him and [[Julia Soaemias|his mother]], throwing his mutilated body into the [[Tiber]].
|Article gives date as 11 or 12 March
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|* [[1945]] – [[World War&nbsp;II]]: [[Empire of Japan|Imperial Japan]] established the '''[[Empire of Vietnam]]''', a short-lived [[puppet state]], with [[Bảo Đại]] as its ruler.
|Source cited is a master's thesis which fails [[WP:SCHOLARSHIP]]
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|* [[1966]] – President [[Sukarno]] signed the '''[[Supersemar]]''', giving Indonesian general [[Suharto]] the authority to restore order during [[Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66|recent mass killings]].
|citations needed
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|* [[1879]] – '''[[Shō Tai]]''', the last king of the [[Ryūkyū Kingdom]]<!--not bold, refimprove section-->, abdicated when the kingdom was [[annexation|annexed]] by Japan and became [[Okinawa Prefecture]].
|article states date of abdication was 27 March
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|* [[1946]] – '''[[Rudolf Höss]]''', the first commandant of [[Auschwitz concentration camp]], was captured by British troops.
|Date does not appear in article
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|[[1999]] – '''[[Infosys]]''' became the first Indian-registered company to have its shares listed on [[Nasdaq]].
|Mutiple issues
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|* [[2006]] – '''[[Michelle Bachelet]]''' was inaugurated as the first female [[President of Chile]].
|many citations needed
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|'''[[Marie of France, Countess of Champagne]]'''<!--French--> |d|1198|
|Too much uncited
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|'''[[Anastasios Charalambis]]'''<!--Greek general--> |d|1949|
|Orange "lede too short" banner
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|'''[[Katsuhiko Nakajima]]'''<!--Japanese pro wrestler--> |b|1988
|Additional citations needed tag.
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==Eligible==
* [[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|

==Notes==
* [[La traviata]] and [[Nabucco]] (both Verdi operas) appear on [[WP:Selected anniversaries/March 6|March 6]] and [[WP:Selected anniversaries/March 9|March 9]] respectively, so neither Rigoletto nor Don Carlos should appear in the same year
* [[Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina]] appears on March 9, so Empire of Vietnam should not appear in the same year
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* [[1851]] – The first performance of Verdi's '''''[[Rigoletto]]''''' took place at [[La Fenice]] in Venice ''(poster pictured)''.
* [[1864]] – The '''[[Great Sheffield Flood]]''' killed at least 240 people and damaged more than 600 homes, after a crack in the dam holding the [[Dale Dike Reservoir]]<!-- ''(pictured)''--> caused it to fail.
* [[1993]] – The [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] unanimously confirmed '''[[Janet Reno]]''' as the first female [[United States Attorney General|United States attorney general]].
* [[2007]] – Georgian authorities accused Russia of orchestrating '''[[2007 Georgia helicopter incident|a helicopter attack]]''' in the [[Kodori Valley]], in the breakaway territory of [[Abkhazia]].
{{Born and died list|'''[[Mary of Woodstock]]'''<!--English nun--> |b|1278| '''[[Stanisław Koniecpolski]]'''<!--Polish military leader--> |d|1646|'''[[Ralph Abernathy]]'''<!--American civil rights leader--> |b|1926|'''[[Gladys Pearl Baker]]'''<!--American mother of Marilyn Monroe--> |d|1984| }}
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