Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 11

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 * 1584 – Spanish explorer Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa founded the town of Nombre de Jesús, the first of two short-lived colonies at the Strait of Magellan.
 * 1823 – Around 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 (audio featured), an opéra comique by Gaetano Donizetti, premiered in Paris to highly negative reviews but later became a success.
 * 1919 – Friedrich Ebert was elected the provisional president of Germany by the Weimar National Assembly.
 * 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.
 * 1990 – Anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela, having been a political prisoner for 27 years, was released from Victor Verster Prison near Paarl, South Africa.
 * 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.
 * 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| William Shenstone |d|1763| Bernard A. Maguire |b|1818| Melville Fuller |b|1833 Adolfo Farsari|b|1841| Ellen Day Hale |bd|1855; 1940| Elizabeth Siddal |d|1862| Louis Bouveault |b|1864| Ellen Broe |b|1900|  L. D. Reynolds |b|1930|  Sylvia Plath |d|1963|  Kelly Rowland |b|1981 | Whitney Houston |d|2012

February 11: National Foundation Day (Japan) (660 BC)


 * 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.
 * 1976 – The Frente de Liberación Homosexual made their final public appearance, shortly before the group's dissolution due to political repression after the 1976 Argentine coup d'état.
 * 2001 – The computer worm Anna Kournikova, which would affect millions of users worldwide, was released by a 20-year-old Dutch student.