Worldpedia:Selected anniversaries/March 11
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British soldiers entering Baghdad
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President Sukarno of Indonesia
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King Shō Tai of the Ryūkyū Kingdom
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Monument to the victims of the 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings in Alcalá de Henares
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Eta Carinae and the surrounding Homunculus Nebula
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Michelle Bachelet
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Fresco of the eruption of Mount Etna by Giacinto Platania
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Aftermath of the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami at Sendai Airport
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Dale Dyke Dam in Sheffield, after its rupture
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Independence Day in Lithuania (1990) | Independence day not mentioned in target article |
| Maha Shivaratri (Hinduism, 2021) | CN tags |
| 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 |
| 1795 – Battle of Kharda, fought between the Maratha Confederacy and the Nizam of Hyderabad, resulting in Maratha victory. | stubby |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1917 – First World War: British forces led by Sir Stanley Maude captured Baghdad, the southern capital of the Ottoman Empire. | needs more footnotes |
| 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. | too many quotes, essay-like |
| 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. | refimprove section |
| 1990 – Lithuania became the first Soviet republic to proclaim independenceTemplate:Sndan act that ultimately contributed to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. | needs more footnotes |
| 2004 – A series of simultaneous bombings on Cercanías commuter trains killed 191 people and wounded more than 1,800 in Madrid. | expansion |
| Sophronius of Jerusalem |d|638| | unref'd section |
| * 222 – Disaffected with Roman emperor Elagabalus's disregard for Roman religious traditions and sexual taboos, the Praetorian Guard assassinated him and his mother, throwing his mutilated body into the Tiber. | Article gives date as 11 or 12 March |
| * 1945 – World War II: 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 |
| * 1966 – President Sukarno signed the Supersemar, giving Indonesian general Suharto the authority to restore order during recent mass killings. | citations needed |
| * 1879 – Shō Tai, the last king of the Ryūkyū Kingdom, abdicated when the kingdom was annexed by Japan and became Okinawa Prefecture. | article states date of abdication was 27 March |
| * 1946 – Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, was captured by British troops. | Date does not appear in article |
| 1999 – Infosys became the first Indian-registered company to have its shares listed on Nasdaq. | Mutiple issues |
| * 2006 – Michelle Bachelet was inaugurated as the first female President of Chile. | many citations needed |
| Marie of France, Countess of Champagne |d|1198| | Too much uncited |
| Anastasios Charalambis |d|1949| | Orange "lede too short" banner |
| Katsuhiko Nakajima |b|1988 | Additional citations needed tag. |
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- 1669 – Mount Etna in Sicily began erupting, eventually producing the largest lava flow in the volcano's history, and damaging Catania and other towns.
- 1708 – Queen Anne withheld royal assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, in the most recent veto by a British monarch of a bill that had been passed by Parliament.
- 1843 – During a period of activity known as the Great Eruption, Eta Carinae (pictured) briefly became the second-brightest star in the night sky.
- 1845 – Māori forces, led by chiefs Te Ruki Kawiti and Hōne Heke, attacked the British settlement of Kororāreka, New Zealand, beginning the Flagstaff War.
- 1851 – Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto premiered at La Fenice in Venice.
- 1978 – After 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 by Hayao Miyazaki was released.
- 2009 – A teenage gunman engaged in 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 snowdrifts in excess of 50 ft (15 m) and confining some people to their houses for up to a week.
- 2010 – During the inauguration of Chilean president Sebastián Piñera, earthquakes registering 6.9 and 7.0 Template:M struck the O'Higgins Region near the city of Pichilemu, causing widespread damage.
- 2011 – A massive earthquake and tsunami struck northeastern Japan and triggered a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
- 2012 – U.S. Army soldier Robert Bales 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 pandemic.
- Born/died: | Clemente Tabone |d|1665| Benjamin Tupper |b|1738| Anna Bochkoltz |b|1815| Jane Meade Welch |b|1854| Nicolaas Bloembergen |b|1920| Margaret Oakley Dayhoff |b|1925| Madam Auring |b|1940 | Helen Rollason |b|1956 | Didier Drogba |b|1978| Cassandra Fairbanks |b|1985| Múte Bourup Egede |b|1987|
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- 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
- Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina appears on March 9, so Empire of Vietnam should not appear in the same year
Premiere poster of Rigoletto
Premiere poster of Rigoletto
- 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 caused it to fail.
- 1993 – The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Janet Reno as the first female United States attorney general.
- 2007 – Georgian authorities accused Russia of orchestrating a helicopter attack in the Kodori Valley, in the breakaway territory of Abkhazia.
- Mary of Woodstock (b. 1278)
- Stanisław Koniecpolski (d. 1646)
- Ralph Abernathy (b. 1926)
- Gladys Pearl Baker (d. 1984)