Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 11
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March 11: Independence Day in Lithuania (1990).
- 1649 – The Peace of Rueil was signed, signaling an end to the opening episodes of the Fronde, France's civil war, after little blood had been shed.
- 1801 – Russian Emperor Paul I was assassinated in his bedroom by a band of dismissed officers, leading the way for his son Alexander I to accede the throne.
- 1848 – Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.
- 1917 – World War I: British forces led by Sir Stanley Maude captured Baghdad, the southern capital of the Ottoman Empire.
- 1966 – In power since World War II, President Sukarno of Indonesia (pictured) was essentially ousted by Suharto and the military after being forced to sign the Presidential Order Supersemar.
- 2003 – The International Criminal Court, a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression, held its inaugural session.