Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 11

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 * 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.
 * 1888 – The Great Blizzard of 1888 struck the northeastern United States, producing snowdrifts in excess of 50 ft 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 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.


 * 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| Katsuhiko Nakajima |b|1988