Wikipedia: February 11

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 -- [King Henry VIII]? recognized as supreme head of the Church in England.
1543 -- [Battle of Wayna Daga]? - Ethiopian/Portugese? troops beat Muslim army.
1720 -- Sweden & Prussia sign peace ([2nd Treaty of Stockholm]?).
1752 -- [Pennsylvania Hospital]?, the 1st hospital in the US, opened.
1790 -- [Society of Friends]? petitions Congress for abolition of slavery.
1794 -- 1st session of US Senate open to the public.
1808 -- Anthracite? coal 1st burned as fuel, experimentally.
1809 -- Robert Fulton patents the steamboat?.
1810 -- Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria.
1812 -- Massachusetts governer Elbridge Gerry invents gerrymandering.
1814 -- Norway's independence is proclaimed.
1826 -- [London University]? is founded.
1837 -- [American Physiological Society]? organizes in Boston.
1840 -- [Gaetano Donizetti]?'s opera "La Fille du Regiment" premieres in Paris.
1843 -- Giuseppe Verdi's opera "I Lombardi" premieres in Milan?.
1852 -- 1st British public toilet for women opens in Bedford Street London.
1854 -- Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time.
1858 -- [Virgin Mary]? appears to [St Bernadette]? of Lourdes?.
1861 -- US House unanimously passes resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
1873 -- Spanish Cortes fires king Amadeus I.
1878 -- 1st US bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms.
1878 -- 1st weekly Weather report published in UK.
1889 -- Meiji? constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890.
1896 -- Oscar Wilde's play "Salomé" premieres in Paris.
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.
1907 -- [De Master]?'s Dutch government resigns.
1907 -- Passenger ship Larchmont sinks by Block Island, 322 die.
1908 -- Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory over England.
1908 -- Heemskerk?'s government begins in the Netherlands.
1916 -- Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control.
1916 -- [Baltimore Symphony Orchestra]? presents its 1st concert.
1919 -- [Friedrich Ebert]? (SPD), elected President of Germany.
1927 -- US female Figure Skating championship won by [Beatrix Loughran]?.
1927 -- US male Figure Skating championship won by [Nathaniel Niles]?.
1928 -- 2nd [Winter Olympics]? opens in [St. Moritz]?, Switzerland.
1929 -- Italy and the Vatican sign the [Lateran Treaty]?.
1929 -- [Eugene O'Neill]?'s "Dynamo" premieres in New York NY.
1937 -- A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognises the [United Automobile Workers Union]?.
1938 -- [Steve Casey]? beats [Lou Thesz]? in Boston to become wrestling champion.
1941 -- 1st Gold record presented to [Glenn Miller]? for Chattanooga Choo Choo.
1941 -- Lieutenant-General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli.
1941 -- Sicherheitsdienst complains about Dutch anti German sentiments.
1942 -- "Archie" comic book debuts.
1943 -- General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
1945 -- [Yalta Conference]? ends.
1948 -- [John Costello]? follows [Eamon De Valera]? as premier of Ireland.
1951 -- Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold Coast (Ghana).
1953 -- President Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg? couple.
1953 -- USSR breaks diplomatic relations with Israel.
1958 -- Marshal [Chen Yi]? succeeds [Chou En-Lai]? as Minister of Foreign affairs.
1958 -- [Ruth Carol Taylor]? is 1st African-American woman hired as flight attendant.
1960 -- [Jack Paar]? walks off his TV show.
1961 -- Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
1963 -- The Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album, including "Please, Please Me".
1963 -- CIA Domestic Operations Division is created.
1964 -- The Beatles have their 1st live appearance in US in the Washington DC Coliseum.
1964 -- Greeks & Turks begin fighting in Limassol?, Cyprus.
1964 -- Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France.
1965 -- Beatle Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox.
1968 -- Jeffrey Kramer survives 76 meter jump, [Washington Bridge]?, [Hudson River]? NY.
1968 -- [Peggy Fleming]? wins Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble?, France.
1968 -- Israeli-Jordan border clashes.
1968 -- [Madison Square Garden]? III closes Madison Square Garden IV opens in New York.
1969 -- [Diana Crump]? becomes 1st US woman jockey to ride against men.
1970 -- John Lennon pays £1,344 fines for 96 people who had protested against the South African rugby team playing in Scotland.
1970 -- Japan becomes the fourth country to launch a satellite into orbit.
1971 -- US?, UK, USSR, others sign [Seabed Treaty]? outlawing nuclear weapons.
1973 -- First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place.
1975 -- Margaret Thatcher defeats [Edward Heath]? for Conservative leadership.
1976 -- [Clifford Alexander Jr]? confirmed as 1st black Secretary of US Army.
1977 -- 20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean?).
1978 -- 16 Unification Church couples wed in New York NY.
1978 -- China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, Shakespeare, & Dickens.
1979 -- 43 million viewers watch "Elvis?!" on ABC.
1979 -- [Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini]? seizes power in Iran.
1981 -- Polish premier [Jozef Pinkowski]? replaced by [Wojciech Jaruzelski]?.
1985 -- Jordan king Hussein? & PLO leader Arafat sign accord.
1985 -- [Wasim Akram]? takes 10 wickets in his 2nd Test Cricket match, but New Zealand still wins.
1986 -- Rights activist [Anatoly Scharansky]? released by USSR, leaves the country.
1987 -- British Airways begins trading stocks.
1987 -- Philippines constitution goes into effect.
1987 -- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1988 -- [Anthony M Kennedy]? appointed to the Supreme Court.
1989 -- [Barbara Clementine Harris]? consecrated 1st female bishop in the Episcopalian Church.
1989 -- US female Figure Skating championship won by [Jill Trenary]?.
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.
1990 -- US male Figure Skating championship won by [Todd Eldredge]?.
1991 -- UNPO?, the Unrepresented Nations & People Organization forms in The Hague, Netherlands.
1992 -- F-16 jet crashes into a residential district of Hengelo?, the Netherlands. No causalties are reported..
1992 -- [Michael Johnson]? runs an indoor world record over 400 meters.
1993 -- [Howard Stern]?'s radio show begins transmitting to Rochester NY.
1993 -- [Irina Privalova]? runs a world indoor record over 60 meters.
1993 -- Janet Reno is selected by President Clinton as US Attorney General.
1995 -- [Danyon Loader]? swims world record 400 meters freestyle.
1995 -- [Mark Foster]? swims world record 50 meters butterfly.
1995 -- [Sandra Volker]? swims European record 50 meters backstroke.
1995 -- US male Figure Skating championship won by [Todd Eldredge]?.
1997 -- [Bill Parcells]? becomes head coach of New York Jets.

Births:

1380 -- Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist.
1465 -- [Elizabeth of York]?, British consort of King Henry VII.
1535 -- Gregory XIV (Niccolò Sfondrati), Pope (1590?-1591?).
1557 -- [John Uijtenbogaert]? Dutch remonstrant theologian.
1568 -- [Honore d'Urfe]? French writer.
1657 -- [Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle]?, French scientist and man of letters.
1755 -- [Albert Christoph Dies]?, composer.
1764 -- [Marie-Joseph de Chenier]? French poet.
1774 -- [Hans Jarta]?, Swedish political activist/administrator/publicist.
1776 -- [Joannis Capodistrias]? Greek governor of Troezen? (1827-31).
1790 -- [Ignaz Assmayer]?, composer.
1800 -- [William Henry Fox Talbot]?, English photographic pioneer.
1802 -- [Lydia Child]?.
1810 -- [Loisa Puget]?, composer.
1812 -- [Alexander Hamilton Stephens]?, Vice President (Confederacy).
1812 -- [Benjamin Franklin Sands]?, Commander (Union Navy).
1813 -- [Otto Ludwig]?, German novelist/playwright/critic.
1819 -- [Samuel Parkman Tuckerman]?, composer.
1821 -- [Auguste Edouard Mariette]?, French Egyptologist who dug out the Sphinx?..
1821 -- [Hermann Allmers]?, writer.
1829 -- [William Anderson Pile]? Bvt Major General (Union volunteers).
1830 -- [Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf]?, composer.
1830 -- [Peter Arnold Heise]?, composer.
1833 -- [Melville Weston Fuller]? 8th chief justice of US.
1839 -- [Josiah Willard Gibbs]? theoretical physicist/chemist.
1840 -- [Samuel Dana Greene]?, Lieutenant Commander (Union Navy).
1847 -- Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor.
1860 -- Rachilde? [Marguerite Vallette-Eymery], French author.
1867 -- [August W Messer]?, German philosopher/educator/psychologist.
1869 -- Helene Kroller-Muller Dutch museum founder and patron of the arts.
1873 -- [Feodor Chaliapine]], Russian author/novelist.
1874 -- [Elsa Beskow]? (Maartman), Swedish children's book/fairy tales author.
1874 -- [Fritz Bennicke Hart]?, composer.
1875 -- [Sara Wennerberg-Reuter]?, composer.
1879 -- [Jean Gilbert]?, composer.
1882 -- [Gheorghe Cucu]? composer.
1883 -- [Paul August von Klenau]? Danish composer/conductor.
1887 -- [[Ernst Hanfstängl]] German/US pianist/politician.
1887 -- John van Melle South African writer.
1889 -- [John Mills]?, American musician.
1889 -- [Vladimir Mikhaylovich Deshevov]? composer.
1890 -- [John de Vries]?, fairy tale writer.
1891 -- [J W Hearne]? English cricket player.
1893 -- [Johan Alberts]? Dutch literary figure.
1894 -- Alfonso Leng, composer.
1894 -- [Isaac Kolthoff]? chemist.
1895 -- [Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky]?, composer.
1896 -- [[Else Lasker-Schüler]], writer.
1897 -- [Yves de La Casiniere]?, composer.
1898 -- [Leo Szilard]?, Hungarian physicist/A-bomb worker/peace activist.
1900 -- [Thomas Hitchcock Jr]?, polo player.
1900 -- Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher.
1902 -- [Arne Jacobsen]? Danish architect/designer.
1903 -- [Hans Redlich]?, composer.
1903 -- [Rex Lease]?, American actor.
1904 -- [Henry LaBouisse]?, head of UNICEF (1965-1979).
1904 -- [Sir Keith Holyoake]?, New Zealand Prime Minister (1960-72).
1905 -- [Elizabeth Vuyk]?, Dutch/Indonesian? writer.
1906 -- [Denis Barnett]?, British air chief marshal.
1907 -- [E W Swanton]?, author & sports commentator.
1908 -- [Sutan Takdir Alishahbana]?, Indonesian linguistic/author/novelist.
1908 -- [Vivian Ernest Fuchs]?, geologist/explorer.
1908 -- [Josh White]?.
1909 -- [Joseph Mankiewicz]?.
1909 -- [Max Baer]? (The Livermore Larruper), American boxer/actor.
1911 -- [Alec Cairncross]? chancellor of [Glasgow University]?.
1912 -- [Roy Fuller]? English poet/novelist.
1912 -- [Rudolf Firkusny Napajedla]?, Czechoslovakian, pianist.
1913 -- [Lucio Diestro]?, composer.
1914 -- [Matt Dennis]?, singer.
1914 -- [French Duynstee]?, Dutch constitutional lawyer.
1914 -- [Menelaos Pallantios]?, composer.
1914 -- [Winand Borgerhoff Mulder]? court judge of Amsterdam.
1915 -- [Haakon Stotijn]?, Dutch oboist.
1915 -- [Mervyn Levy]?, artist/critic.
1915 -- [Patrick Leigh Fermor]?, author.
1916 -- [Bernice Levin Neugarten]?, social scientist/gerontologist.
1916 -- [Joseph Alioto]?, Mayor of San Francisco.
1917 -- [Richard Jock Kinneir]?, graphic designer.
1917 -- [Sidney Sheldon]?, author.
1919 -- [Gretchen Fraser]?, slalom skier.
1919 -- [Eddie Robinson]?, football coach.
1920 -- [Billy Halop]?, actor.
1920 -- [Daniel Francis Galouye]?, American science fiction author.
1920 -- [Farouk I]?, last King of Egypt (1936-52).
1920 -- Paul Peter Piech, artist.
1921 -- [Eva Gabor]?, Hungarian actress.
1921 -- [Lloyd Bentsen]?, American politician.
1922 -- [Leslie Nielsen]?, actor.
1922 -- [Tudor Jarda]?, composer.
1923 -- [Ronald Arculus]?, British diplomat.
1924 -- [Mary Tregear]?, Oriental art historian.
1925 -- [Peter Berger]?, British Vice-Admiral.
1925 -- [Kim Stanley]?, actress.
1925 -- [Virginia Johnson]?, doctor/sexologist.
1926 -- [Paul Bocuse]? French chef.
1926 -- [Alexander Gibson]? British conductor/founder of the [Scottish Opera]?.
1928 -- [Conrad Janis]?, actor.
1928 -- [Archibald Forster]?, CEO (Esso UK).
1928 -- [Gerry Alexander]?West Indies cricket player.
1928 -- [Raoul Cita]?, rocker.
1929 -- [Leonard Gregory Kastle]?, composer.
1930 -- [Alevtina Koltschina]? Soviet skier.
1930 -- [C H Dearnley]?, organist.
1931 -- [Larry Merchant]?, author/boxing commentator.
1932 -- [Jerome Lowenthal]?, pianist/professor.
1934 -- [Francesco Pennisi]?, composer.
1934 -- [John Surtees]?, British race car driver.
1934 -- [Patrick Holmes Sellors]?, ophthalmologist.
1934 -- [Mary Quant]?, fashion designer.
1934 -- [Tina Louise]?, actress.
1935 -- [Sergio Mendes]? -- an alternative source gives 1941.
1935 -- [Gerry Goffin]?.
1935 -- [Bent Lorentzen]?, composer.
1935 -- [Gene Vincent]?, American rock guitarist/vocalist -- an alternative source gives 1943.
1936 -- [Burt Reynolds]?, American actor..
1937 -- [Bill Lawry]?, Australian cricket player.
1937 -- [Lodewijk Boer]?, Dutch violinist/playwright.
1937 -- [Marilyn Butler]?, Rector of Exeter College, Oxford University.
1937 -- [Peter Lashley]?, West Indies cricket player.
1938 -- [Boris Majorov]?, Soviet ice hockey player.
1938 -- [Yevgeniy Majorov]?, Soviet ice hockey player.
1938 -- [Bevan Congdon]?,New Zealand cricket player.
1938 -- [Willy Correa de Oliveira]?, composer.
1938 -- [Manuel Noriega]?, Panamanian general and dictator.
1939 -- [Gerry Goffin]?, rock lyricist.
1939 -- [Jane Hyatt Yolen]?, science fiction author.
1940 -- [Calvin Fowler]? basketball player.
1940 -- John Fink, actor.
1940 -- [Bobby Picket]?, rocker.
1941 -- [Glenn Randall Jr]?, stuntman.
1941 -- [Jeremy Mackenzie]?, general.
1942 -- [Archie Andrews]?, (comic book character).
1942 -- [Leon Haywood]?, vocalist/keyboardist.
1942 -- [Tony Colton]?, rock producer.
1942 -- [Otis Clay]?, gospel/R&B-singer.
1943 -- [Iain Cameron]? British brigadier.
1944 -- [Bert Greene]? golfer.
1944 -- [Buddhadev Dasgupta]?, film director.
1944 -- [Michael G Oxley]?, American politician.
1946 -- [M C Walker]?, CEO of Iceland Frozen Foods.
1946 -- [Timothy Chambers]? pediatrician.
1948 -- [Sue Bernard]?, Playboy magazine's playmate for December 1966.
1949 -- [Charlie Hargrett]?, rock guitarist.
1950 -- [Earnest Jim Istook]?, American politician.
1950 -- [Johanna E Beerens]?, actress.
1950 -- [Rochelle Fleming]?, soul music vocalist.
1953 -- [Philip Anglim]?, actor.
1953 -- [Stephen D Thorne]?, astronaut.
1953 -- [Alan Rubin]? music figure.
1954 -- [Catherine Hickland]?, actress -- an alternative source gives 1956.
1956 -- [Kathleen Beller]?, actress.
1958 -- Michael Jackson, controller of BBC2.
1958 -- [Regina Marsikova]?, Czechoslovakian tennis player.
1959 -- [Corinne Shigemoto]?, US judo coach.
196-? -- [Bianca Ferguson]? actress.
1960 -- [Richard A Mastracchio]?, astronaut.
1960 -- Michel Clasquin. wikipedian
1961 -- [Mary Docter]?, American speed skater.
1961 -- [Becky LeBeau]?, vocalist.
1961 -- [Carey Lowell]?, actress.
1962 -- Sheryl Crow, American singer.
1962 -- [Scott Kolden]?, actor.
1963 -- [Todd Benzinger]? American baseball player.
1965 -- [Angie Ridgeway]?, golfer.
1965 -- [Stephen Gregory]?, actor.
1966 -- [Anthony Parker]?, American football player.
1966 -- [Patrick Kuhnen]?, West German tennis player.
1966 -- [Stephen Gregory]?, actor.
1967 -- [Barbara Byrne]?, American rower.
1967 -- [[Chris Reohr], American fencer.
1967 -- [John Patterson]? US baseball player.
1969 -- [Shannon Long Gladstone]?, Australian Playboy magazine's playmate for October 1988.
1969 -- [Bryan Eversgerd]? US baseball player.
1969 -- [Jennifer Aniston]?, American actress.
1970 -- [Alistair Brown]?, English cricket player.
1970 -- [Jason Allyn Scott]?, US rower.
1972 -- [Dennis Iliohan]?, Dutch football player.
1974 -- D'Angelo?, singer.
1975 -- [Chuck Watanabe]?, kayaker.
1976 -- [Brice Beckham]?, actor.
1977 -- [Jessica Carlson]?, US archer.
1977 -- [Stephanie Richardson]?, Canadian swimmer.
1979 -- [Brandy Norwood]?, singer.
1980 -- [Matthew Lawrence]?, actor.
1980 -- [Natasha Bobo]?, actress.

Deaths:

641? -- Heraclius, emperor of Byzantium (610-641?)..
731 -- Gregory II Greek-Syrian Pope.
821 -- [Benedict of Aniane]?, saint.
824 -- [Paschal I]? Italian Pope (817-824).
867 -- [Theodora the Saint]?, beauty queen/empress of Byzantium.
1141 -- [Hugo of St. Victor]?, philosopher/theologian/mystic.
1503 -- [Elizabeth of York]?, consort of [King Henry VII]?, dies on her 38th birthday.
1543 -- [Ahmed Gran]?, sultan of Adal.
1554 -- [Lady Jane Grey]?, deposed Queen of England.
1622 -- [Alfonso Fontanelli]?, composer.
1650 -- René Descartes, philosopher.
1685 -- [David Teniers III]?, Flemish painter.
1762 -- [[Johann Tobias Krebs], composer.
1797 -- [Antoine Dauvergne]?, composer.
1806 -- [Vicente Martin y Soler]?, composer.
1841 -- [J H Ferdinand Olivier]?, German painter.
1868 -- [[Léon Foucault]], astronomer.
1870 -- [Jacob M de Kempenaer]?, Dutch Minister of Internal Affairs (1848-1849).
1870 -- [Leopold Eugen Mechura]?, composer.
1879 -- [Honore Daumier]?, caricaturist/painter.
1879 -- [Willem J van Zeggelen]?, Dutch author.
1882 -- [Gustav Schmidt]?, composer.
1892 -- [Erik Anthon Valdemar Siboni]?, composer.
1894 -- [[Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera composer, dies at 70.
1899 -- George Morgan becomes the 1st English motorist to die in an motor accident.
1901 -- [Milan I]?, king of Serbia.
1903 -- [Henryk Szulc]?, composer.
1907 -- [Peter J Savelberg]?, Dutch monastery founder.
1911 -- [Albert von Rothschild]?, baron/Austrian? banker.
1922 -- [Gerardus J P Bolland]?, Dutch philosopher.
1931 -- [Charles Algernon Parsons]?, British inventor.
1939 -- [Franz Schmidt]?, Austrian composer.
1940 -- [John Buchan]?, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor-General of Canada (1935-1940).
1941 -- [Rudolf Hilferding]?, German economist/Minister? of Finance.
1944 -- [Ivan Sollertinski]?, friend of Russian composer [Dimitri Shostakovich]?.
1945 -- [Al Dubin]?, Swiss songwriter.
1945 -- [J S H Lokerman]?, Dutch resistance fighter.
1948 -- Sergei Eisenstein, film director.
1961 -- [Eduard R Verkade]?, Dutch actor/director.
1961 -- [Patrice Lumumba]?, 1st premier of [Congo (Kinshasa)]?.
1963 -- Sylvia Plath, poet/novelist.
1968 -- [Howard Lindsay]?, US playwright.
1969 -- [James Lanphier]?, actor.
1970 -- [Emil Abranyi]?, composer.
1971 -- [Whitney Young Jr]?, National Urban League director.
1972 -- [Jan Wils]?, architect.
1973 -- [Hans D Jensen]?, German physicist.
1974 -- [Anna Q Nilsson]?, actress.
1976 -- [Lee J Cobb]?, actor.
1976 -- [Alice Allen]?, actress.
1976 -- [Charlie Naughton]?, actor.
1977 -- [Louis J M Beel]?, Dutch premier (1946-1948, 1958-1959).
1978 -- [James B Conant]?, headmaster of Harvard University.
1982 -- [Eleanor Powell]?, tap dancer/wife of [Glenn Ford]?.
1982 -- [Takashi Shimura]?, Japanese actor.
1985 -- [Heinz Eric Roemheld]?, composer.
1985 -- [Henry Hathaway]? actor/director.
1985 -- [Ulysses Sipmson Kay]?, composer.
1986 -- Frank Herbert, science fiction author.
1989 -- [George O'Hanlon]?, actor/director.
1991 -- [Oscar Nitzchke]?, German architect.
1992 -- [Ray Danton]?, US actor/director.
1993 -- [George A Stephen]?, inventor .
1993 -- [Joy Garrett]?, actress.
1993 -- [Oksana Kostina]?, Russian gymnast.
1994 -- [Antonio Martin]?, Spanish cyclist.
1994 -- [Sorrell Brooke]?, actor.
1994 -- [William Conrad]?, actor.
1996 -- [Amelia Rosselli]?, poet.
1996 -- [Bob Shaw]?, science fiction writer.
1996 -- [Cyril Poole]?, English cricket player.
1996 -- [Kebby Musokotwane]?, prime minister of Zambia (1985-1989).
1996 -- [Phil Regan]?, actor.
1997 -- [Don Porter]?, actor.

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