Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 11

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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.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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  • British soldiers entering Baghdad
    British soldiers entering Baghdad
  • President Sukarno of Indonesia
    President Sukarno of Indonesia
  • King Shō Tai of the Ryūkyū Kingdom
    King Shō Tai of the Ryūkyū Kingdom
  • Monument to the victims of the 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings in Alcalá de Henares
    Monument to the victims of the 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings in Alcalá de Henares
  • Eta Carinae and the surrounding Homunculus Nebula
    Eta Carinae and the surrounding Homunculus Nebula
  • Michelle Bachelet
    Michelle Bachelet
  • Fresco of the eruption of Mount Etna by Giacinto Platania
    Fresco of the eruption of Mount Etna by Giacinto Platania
  • Aftermath of the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami at Sendai Airport
    Aftermath of the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami at Sendai Airport

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Blurb Reason
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
1795Battle of Kharda, fought between the Maratha Confederacy and the Nizam of Hyderabad, resulting in Maratha victory. stubby
1848Louis-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
1867Don 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
1917First World War: British forces led by Sir Stanley Maude captured Baghdad, the southern capital of the Ottoman Empire. needs more footnotes
1941World 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
1990Patricio 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 independence – an act that ultimately contributed to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. needs more footnotes
2004A 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
* 1945World 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
* 1879Shō 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
* 1946Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, was captured by British troops. Date does not appear in article
1999Infosys became the first Indian-registered company to have its shares listed on Nasdaq. Mutiple issues
* 2006Michelle 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

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Notes

March 11: Commonwealth Day in the Commonwealth of Nations (2024); National Heroes and Benefactors Day in Belize (2024); Longtaitou Festival in China (2024)

Dale Dyke Dam in Sheffield, after its rupture
Dale Dyke Dam in Sheffield, after its rupture
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