Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 11
March 11: Red Nose Day in the United Kingdom (2005)
- 1513 - Giovanni de' Medici became Pope Leo X.
- 1845 - Māori forces led by chiefs Kawiti and Hone Heke destroyed the British settlement of Kororareka in New Zealand, beginning the Flagstaff War.
- 1966 - In power since World War II, President Sukarno of Indonesia was ousted by Suharto and the military.
- 1990 - The Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic ceased to exist when Lithuania proclaimed the restitution of independence from the Soviet Union.
- 2004 - The March 11th Attacks: A series of terrorist bombings on commuter trains killed 191 people and wounded more than 1,800 in Madrid.