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February 11th

February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 323 days remaining, 324 in leap years.

Events

660 BC - Traditional founding date of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno.
385 - Oldest Pope elected; Siricius, bishop of Tarragona.
731 - Gregory II ends his reign as Pope.
824 - Paschal I ends his reign as Pope.
1531 - Henry VIII of England recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.
1543 - Battle of Wayna Daga - Ethiopian/Portuguese troops beat Muslim army.
1720 - Sweden and Prussia sign peace (2nd Treaty of Stockholm).
1752 - Pennsylvania Hospital, 1st hospital in the United States, opens.
1790 - Society of Friends petitions United States Congress for abolition of slavery.
1794 - First session of United States Senate open to the public.

1808 - Anthracite coal first burned as fuel, experimentally.
1809 - Robert Fulton patents the steamboat
1810 - Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria.
1812 - Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry gerrymanders for the first time.
1814 - Norway's independence is proclaimed, marking the ultimate end of the Kalmar Union
1826 - London University is founded.
1837 - American Physiological Society organizes in Boston, Massachusetts.
1840 - Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Fille du Regiment premieres in Paris.
1843 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi premieres in Milan.
1858 - Blessed Virgin Mary is said to appear to Saint Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes.
1861 - American Civil War: United States House of Representatives unanimously passes resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
1873 - Spanish Cortes fires king Amadeus I.
1889 - Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet of Japan convenes in 1890

1902 - Police beat up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels.
1903 - Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna.
1905 - Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos.
1908 - Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory over England.
1916 - Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control.
1919 - Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected President of Germany.
1928 - 1928 Winter Olympic Games open in St. Moritz, Switzerland
1929 - Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
1937 - A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Automobile Workers Union.
1941 - First Gold record presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo".
1943 - General Dwight Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
1945 - Yalta Conference ends.
1948 - John Costello follows Eamon de Valera as Premier of Ireland.

1953 - President Dwight Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
1953 - The Soviet Union breaks diplomatic relations with Israel.
1961 - Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
1963 - The Beatles tape 10 tracks for their first album, including "Please, Please Me".
1964 - At the Washington, DC Coliseum, The Beatles have their 1st live appearance in the United States.
1964 - Greeks and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus.
1964 - The Republic of China (Taiwan) drops diplomatic relations with France.
1968 - Israeli-Jordanian border clashes.
1968 - Madison Square Garden III closes and Madison Square Garden IV opens in New York City
1971 - US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons in international waters.
1973 - Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place.
1978 - Censorship: China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, Shakespeare and Dickens.
1979 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini seizes power in Iran.

1981 - 100,000 gallons of radioactive coolant leaks into the containment building of TVA Sequoyah 1 nuclear plant in Tennessee, contaiminating 8 workers
1986 - Rights activist Anatoly Scharansky, released by the USSR, leaves the country.
1987 - Philippines constitution goes into effect.
1990 - James "Buster" Douglas KOs Mike Tyson to win heavyweight boxing crown.
1990 - Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, is freed from Victor Verster prison outside Cape Town, South Africa.
1991 - UNPO, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, forms in The Hague, Netherlands.
1992 - Art band The KLF subvert the UK's Brit Awards