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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.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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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
1845Māori forces led by chiefs Kawiti and Hone Heke destroyed the British settlement of Kororareka in New Zealand, beginning the Flagstaff War. refimprove section
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
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. possible copyvio
1945World War II: The Empire of Japan established the Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived puppet state, with Bảo Đại as its ruler. refimprove section
1966Indonesian 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
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. 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
2004A series of simultaneous bombings on Cercanías commuter trains killed 191 people and wounded more than 1,800 in Madrid. expansion
2011A massive earthquake struck the northeastern coast of Japan and triggered a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. outdated

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March 11: Purim begins at sunset (Judaism, 2017); Independence Day in Lithuania (1990)

King Shō Tai of the Ryūkyū Kingdom
Shō Tai

Margaret Oakley Dayhoff (b. 1925) · Helen Rollason (b. 1956) · Katsuhiko Nakajima (b. 1988)

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