Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 11
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February 11: National Foundation Day in Japan
- 1873 - King Amadeo I of Spain abdicated, proclaimed at the Cortes Generales that Spanish people were "ungovernable," and left the country.
- 1919 - Friedrich Ebert (pictured) became the first Reichspräsident of the Weimar Republic.
- 1929 - The first Lateran treaty was signed, establishing Vatican City as an independent sovereign enclave within Italy.
- 1963 - The Beatles began recording for their first album, Please Please Me.
- 1979 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini seized power in Iran, and eventually became the Supreme Leader of the Islamic republic.
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