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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  Anthracite coal
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  Bernadette Soubirous
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  Bernadette Soubirous
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  Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
• "Le beau vingt-et-unièm" from La fille du régiment
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  José Ramos-Horta
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  Swaminarayan writing the Shikshapatri
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  Emperor Jimmu of Japan
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  Nelson Mandela

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
660 BC – According to tradition, Emperor Jimmu founded Japan and established his capital in Yamato.	refimprove section
1250 – Seventh Crusade: After three days of fighting, the Ayyubids successfully defended Al Mansurah, Egypt, from invading crusaders.	unreferenced section
1808 – Anthracite coal was first experimentally burned as a residential heating fuel by Jesse Fell in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.	unreferenced section
1826 – Swaminarayan wrote the Shikshapatri, a book of 212 verses that serves as the basis of Swaminarayan Hinduism.	neutrality issues
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.	refimprove
1873 – King Amadeo I of Spain abdicated, proclaimed at the Cortes Generales that Spanish people were "ungovernable," and left the country.	refimprove
1929 – To help settle the "Roman Question", Italy and the Holy See of the Roman Catholic Church signed the Lateran Treaty 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.	needs more footnotes
Bernard A. Maguire |b|1818	TFA for 2021

Eligible

• AD 55 – Britannicus, son of Claudius and heir to the Roman emperorship, died after being poisoned at a dinner party.
• 1823 – About 110 boys were killed in a human crush at the Convent of the Minori Osservanti in Valletta on the last day of the Maltese Carnival.
• 1840 – La fille du régiment, an opéra comique by Gaetano Donizetti, debuted in Paris to a highly negative review, but went on to become a great success.
• 1919 – Friedrich Ebert was elected provisional President of the German Weimar Republic by the Weimar National Assembly.
• 1964 – The Beatles played their first concert in the United States at the Washington Coliseum.
• 1979 – The Pahlavi dynasty of Iran 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, having been 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 and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão, seriously wounding the former.
• 2015 – Turkish student Özgecan Aslan was murdered during a rape attempt, sparking mass demonstrations across the country after her body was discovered two days later.
• Born/died this day: | Ala-ud-Din Bahman Shah |d|1358| René Descartes |d|1650| Helene Kröller-Müller |b|1869| Ellen Broe |b|1900| Keith Holyoake |b|1904| Sylvia Plath |d|1963| Jennifer Aniston |b|1969| Whitney Houston |d|2012

February 11: Fat Thursday (Western Christianity, 2021); anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran (1979); National Foundation Day in Japan (660 BC)

UCL Main Building

• 1826 – London University, later University College London (pictured), was founded as the first secular university in England.
• 1851 – As part of celebrations marking the separation of Victoria from New South Wales, the inaugural first-class cricket match in Australia began at the Launceston Racecourse in Tasmania.
• 1938 – The BBC aired an adaptation of a section of Czech writer Karel Čapek's play R.U.R. in the first broadcast of science fiction on television.
• 1991 – The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization was established in The Hague to represent the interests of indigenous peoples, minorities, occupied nations, and other areas lacking international recognition.
• 2001 – The computer worm Anna Kournikova, which would affect millions of users worldwide, was released by a 20-year-old Dutch student.

• William Shenstone (d. 1763)
• Louis Bouveault (b. 1864)
• Kelly Rowland (b. 1981)

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