Memipedia: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 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.
 * 1864 – The Great Sheffield Flood killed at least 240 people and damaged more than 600 homes, after a crack in the Dale Dyke Dam caused it to fail.
 * 1879 – Shō Tai, the last king of the Ryūkyū Kingdom, abdicated when the kingdom was annexed by Japan and became Okinawa Prefecture.
 * 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.
 * 1966 – Indonesian president Sukarno signed the document known as Supersemar, giving General of the Army Suharto the authority to restore order during the recent mass killings.
 * 1993 – The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Janet Reno as the country's first female attorney general.
 * 1999 – Infosys became the first Indian-registered company to have its shares listed on Nasdaq.
 * 2006 – Michelle Bachelet was inaugurated as the first female President of Chile.
 * 2007 – Georgian authorities accused Russia of orchestrating a helicopter attack in the Kodori Valley of the breakaway territory of Abkhazia.
 * 2009 – A teenage gunman engaged in a shooting spree at a secondary school in Winnenden, Germany, killing 16, including himself.
 * 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.
 * 2012 – United States Army officer Robert Bales murdered sixteen civilians and wounded six others in the Panjwayi District of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.
 * Born/died: | Mary of Woodstock |b|1278| Clemente Tabone |d|1665| Benjamin Tupper |b|1738| Anna Bochkoltz |b|1815| Jane Meade Welch |b|1854| Margaret Oakley Dayhoff |b|1925| Ralph Abernathy |b|1926| Anastasios Charalambis |d|1949| Helen Rollason |b|1956| Didier Drogba |b|1978| Katsuhiko Nakajima |b|1988