Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 11

This is a list of selected February 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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  Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
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  Nelson Mandela

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Blurb	Reason
55 – One day before his 14th birthday, Britannicus, heir to the Roman Emperorship, died under mysterious circumstances in Rome, apparently poisoned at a dinner party.	more footnotes
1808 – Anthracite coal was first experimentally burned as a residential heating fuel by Jesse Fell in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, US.	Tagged with {{globalize}}
1858 – Fourteen year-old peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous reported the first of eighteen Marian apparitions in Lourdes, France, resulting in the town becoming a major site for pilgrimages by Catholics.	more footnotes
1873 – King Amadeo I of Spain abdicated, proclaimed at the Cortes Generales that Spanish people were "ungovernable," and left the country.	Tagged with {{refimprove}}
1919 – Friedrich Ebert became the first President of the German Weimar Republic.	Tagged with {{refimprove}}
1929 – To help settle the "Roman Question", Italy and the Holy See of the Roman Catholic Church agreed to establish Vatican City as an independent sovereign enclave within Italy.	refimprove section
1971 – Eighty-seven countries signed the Seabed Arms Control Treaty, outlawing weapons of mass destruction on the ocean floor in international waters.	no footnotes
1991 – The international organization Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization was established to represent the interests of indigenous peoples, minorities, occupied nations, and other areas which lack international representation.	more footnotes

Eligible

• 1826 – University College London was founded as the first secular university in England.

February 11: Victory of the Revolution in Iran (1979), National Foundation Day in Japan

• 660 BCE – According to tradition, Emperor Jimmu founded Japan and established his capital in Yamato.

• 1826 – Swaminarayan wrote the Shikshapatri, a book of 212 verses that serves as the basis of Swaminarayan Hinduism.

• 1938 – The BBC aired an adaptation of Karel Čapek's play R.U.R., the first science fiction television programme ever broadcast.

• 1979 – Iranian Revolution: The Pahlavi dynasty effectively collapsed when the military declared itself "neutral" after rebel troops overwhelmed forces loyal to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in armed street fighting.

• 1990 – Anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, was released from Victor Verster Prison near Paarl, South Africa.

• 2008 – Rebel East Timorese soldiers invaded the homes of President José Ramos-Horta (pictured) and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão, seriously wounding the former.

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