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

Ineligible

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
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 independence – an 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.

Eligible

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 M_w 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|

Notes

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

March 11

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.
2020 – The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the COVID-19 virus epidemic a pandemic.

Mary of Woodstock (b. 1278)
Stanisław Koniecpolski (d. 1646)
Ralph Abernathy (b. 1926)
Gladys Pearl Baker (d. 1984)

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