Notable Historical Events on February 11th
February 11th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
660 |
Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu |
BC AD | |
55 |
Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman Emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome. This clears the way for Nero to become Emperor. |
385 |
Siricius, bishop of Tarragona, elected as Bishop of Rome; first to style himself Pope. |
824 |
St Paschal I ends his reign as Pope |
1531 |
Henry VIII recognised as supreme head of Church in England following the schism with Rome |
1543 |
Battle at Wayna Daga: Ethiopian/Portugese troops beat Muslim army |
1543 |
Karel/Henry VIII sign anti-French covenant |
1575 |
King Frederick of Denmark offers island of Hveen to Tycho Brahe |
1659 |
The assault on Copenhagen by Swedish forces is beaten back with heavy losses. |
1720 |
Sweden & Prussia sign peace (2nd Treaty of Stockholm) |
1766 |
Stamp Act declared unconstitutional in Virginia |
1768 |
Samuel Adams letter, circulates around American colonies, opposing Townshend Act taxes |
1790 |
Society of Friends petitions Congress for abolition of slavery |
1793 |
Prussian troops occupy Venlo, Netherlands |
1794 |
1st session of US Senate open to the public |
1808 |
Anthracite coal 1st burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre, Pa |
1809 |
Robert Fulton patents steamboat |
1811 |
President Madison prohibits trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years |
1812 |
Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry signs a redistricting bill - 1st "gerrymander" |
1814 |
Norway's independence proclaimed |
1826 |
University College London founded; known until 1836 as London University |
1837 |
American Physiological Society organizes in Boston |
1840 |
Gaetano Donizetti's Opera "La Fille du Regiment," premieres in Paris |
1843 |
Opera "I Lombardi," premieres in Milan |
1851 |
1st cricket 1st-class game in Australia, Tasmania v Vic, Launceston |
1852 |
1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London) |
1854 |
Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time |
1855 |
Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam. |
1858 |
1st apparition of the Virgin Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes, France |
1861 |
President-elect Lincoln takes train from Spingfield IL to Washington DC |
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 |
1895 |
-17°F (-27.2°C) in Braemar, Grampian (UK record) |
1895 |
Georgetown became part of Wash DC |
1896 |
Oscar Wilde's "Salome," premieres in Paris |
1897 |
White Rose Mission opens on East 97th Street, NYC |
1898 |
Owen Smith of NC, AME Zion minister, named US minister to Liberia |
1899 |
-15°F (-26°C), Washington, DC (district record) |
1899 |
-61°F, Montana (record low temperature) |
1902 |
Police beat up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels |
1903 |
Anton Bruckner's 9th Symfonie premieres in Vienna |
1903 |
US Congress adopts the Expedition Act, which authorizes the Attorney General to 'expedite' anti-trust cases through the courts, reflecting growing popular support for President Roosevelt's 'trust busting' campaign |
1905 |
James Blackstone, Seattle, bowls 299½-last pin breaks but stands |
1905 |
Pope Pius X publishes encyclical Vehementer nos |
1907 |
De Master's Dutch government resigns |
1907 |
Passenger ship Larchmont sinks by Block Island, off Rhide Island, 322 die |
1908 |
Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory vs England |
1908 |
Heemskerk's government begins in Holland |
1916 |
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its 1st concert |
1916 |
Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control |
1916 |
Germany and Austria-Hungary notify the US that they will sink any armed merchant ships starting on 1 March |
1919 |
Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected president of Germany |
1921 |
Ambassador Theater opens at 215 W 49th St NYC |
1922 |
"April Showers" by Al Jolson hits #1 |
1922 |
US intervention army leaves Honduras |
1926 |
Tokelau (Union) Islands in South Pacific transfers to NZ |
1927 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran |
1927 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles |
1928 |
2nd Winter Olympic games opens in St Moritz, Switzerland |
1929 |
Eugene O'Neill's "Dynamo," premieres in NYC |
1929 |
Vatican City (world's smallest country) made an enclave of Rome |
1932 |
73°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in February |
1935 |
-11°F (-24°C), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low) |
1935 |
1st US airplane flight with auto slung beneath fuselage, NY |
1936 |
Pumping begins to build Treasure Island in SF Bay |
1937 |
44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint Mich ends |
1938 |
Steve Casey beats Lou Thesz in Boston, to become wrestling champ |
1941 |
1st Gold record presented (Glenn Miller-Chattanooga Choo Choo) |
1941 |
Lt-Gen Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli |
1941 |
Sicherheitsdienst complains about Dutch anti German sentiments |
1942 |
"Archie" comic book debuts |
1943 |
US General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe; British General Montgomery not best pleased. |
1943 |
Transport nr 47 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1944 |
German troops reconquer Aprilia, Italy |
1944 |
U-424 sunk off Ireland |
1945 |
1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey, CA |
1945 |
Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill & Stalin |
1948 |
Billy Griffith scores cricket century on debut Eng v WI, out for 140 |
1948 |
John Costello follows Eamon Da Valera as premier of Ireland |
1948 |
Test cricket debut of Frank Worrell for the West Indies vs. England at Port-of-Spain |
1949 |
Willie Pep recaptures world featherweight boxing title |
1950 |
"Rag Mop" by The Ames Brothers hit #1 |
1951 |
Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana) |
1953 |
"Hazel Flagg" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 190 performances |
1953 |
J Styne/B Hilliard's musical "Hazel Flagg," premieres in NYC |
1953 |
Pres Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple |
1953 |
USSR breaks diplomatic relations with Israel |
1954 |
6th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Donald O'Connor & Eve Arden win |
1957 |
KUMV TV channel 8 in Williston, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1957 |
NHL Players Association forms (NYC), Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected president |
1958 |
Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs |
1958 |
Ruth Carol Taylor is 1st African-American woman hired as flight attendant, Ithaca NY |
1958 |
WTVC TV channel 9 in Chattanooga, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1959 |
Vinoo Mankad ends his final Test Cricket (v WI at Delhi) |
1960 |
Jack Paar walks off his TV show |
1961 |
Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black |
1962 |
Beatles record "Please, Please Me" |
1963 |
Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album |
1963 |
CIA Domestic Operations Division created (pretty scary!) |
1963 |
Julia Child's show The French Chef premieres. |
1964 |
Beatles 1st live appearance in US; Washington DC Coliseum |
1964 |
Greek & Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus |
1964 |
Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France |
1965 |
Braves propose to pay 5 cents from each ticket to bring a new team to Milwaukee |
1966 |
SF Giant Willie Mays signs highest contract, $130,000 per year |
1968 |
Israeli-Jordan border fight |
1968 |
Jeffrey Kramer survives 76-m jump, Wash Bridge, Hudson River NY |
1968 |
Madison Square Garden III closes Madison Square Garden IV opens (NYC) |
1969 |
Diana Crump becomes 1st US woman jockey to ride against men, Hialelah |
1969 |
Dorey Funk Jr beats Gene Kiniski in Tampa, to become NWA champ |
1970 |
26.37 cm (10.38") of rainfall, Mt Washington, NH (state 24-hr rec) |
1970 |
Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite (Osumi) in orbit |
1970 |
John Lennon pays £1,344 fines for 96 protesting South African rugby team playing in Scotland |
1971 |
Montreal Canadien John Believau scores his 500th NHL goal |
1971 |
US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons |
1973 |
1st one-day international for Pakistan & NZ |
1973 |
1st sub 17-min 1,500m female free style swim (Shane Gould 16m56.9s) |
1973 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Naples-Lely Golf Classic |
1973 |
Philadelphia 76ers lose their 20th NBA game in a row |
1974 |
Dick Woodson is 1st of 48 to invoke baseball's new arbitration rule |
1974 |
Titan-Centaur rocket test launch fails |
1974 |
1st baseball arbitration Twins pitcher Dick Woodson seeking $29,000 wins, Twins offered $23,000 |
1974 |
Henry Kissinger unveils Nixon Administration's seven-point "Project Independence" plan to make the U.S. energy independent |
1974 |
Libya nationalizes three US oil companies that had not agreed to 51 percent nationalization in September |
1975 |
Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for leadership of the British Conservative Party |
1976 |
Clifford Alexander Jr confirmed as 1st black US Secretary of Army |
1977 |
20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean) |
1978 |
16 Unification church couples wed in NYC |
1978 |
25th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin |
1978 |
China lifts a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare, & Dickens |
1978 |
EOKA disbands in Cyprus |
1979 |
"They're Playing Our Song" opens at Imperial NYC for 1082 perfs |
1979 |
43 million watch "Elvis!" on ABC |
1979 |
Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation |
1979 |
Iran's premier Bakhtiar resigns, Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power |
1979 |
Musical "They're Playing Our Song," premieres in NYC |
1981 |
Australia all out 83 v India at MCG chasing 143 to win |
1981 |
Polish premier Jozef Pinkowski replaced by Wojciech Jaruzelski |
1982 |
Ozzie Smith for Garry Templeton trade finally goes through |
1983 |
"Weird Al" Yankovic records "Ricky" & "Buckingham Blues" debut LP |
1983 |
4th largest snowfall in NYC history (18"(46 cm)) |
1984 |
10th space shuttle mission (41-B)-Challenger 4-returns to Earth |
1984 |
Wayne Gretzky sets NHL short handed season scoring record at 11 |
1985 |
King Hussein of Jordan & PLO leader Arafat sign accord |
1985 |
Kent Hrbek signs 5-year, $6 million contract with Minnesota Twins |
1985 |
Wasim Akram takes 10 wickets in his 2nd Test Cricket, NZ still wins |
1986 |
Activist Anatoly Scharansky released by USSR, leaves country |
1986 |
Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup |
1986 |
Iran begins Fajr-8 offensive against Iraq |
1987 |
British Airways begins trading stocks |
1987 |
England beat Australia 2-0 to win the World Series Cup |
1987 |
Philippines constitution goes into effect |
1987 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1988 |
Anthony M Kennedy appointed to US Supreme Court |
1989 |
Barbara Clementine Harris consecrated 1st female bishop (Episcopalian) |
1989 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary |
1990 |
40th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 130-113 at Miami |
1990 |
James "Buster" Douglas KOs Mike Tyson in 10 to win heavyweight boxing crown |
1990 |
Nelson Mandela released after 27 years imprisonment in South Africa |
1990 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge |
1991 |
UNPO, Unrepresented Nations & People Org forms in Hague Neth |
1992 |
F-16 jet crashes at residential district of Hengelo, Netherlands (No deaths) |
1992 |
Michael Johnson runs indoor world record 400m (44.97 sec) |
1993 |
Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester NY (WRQI) |
1993 |
Irina Privalova runs world record 60m indoor (6.92 secs) |
1993 |
Janet Reno selected by President Clinton as US Attorney General |
1994 |
Lu Parker, (South Carolina), crowned 43rd Miss USA |
1994 |
Space shuttle STS-60 (Discovery 18), lands |
1995 |
Danyon Loader swims world record 400m freestyle (340.46) |
1995 |
Mark Foster swims world record 50m butterfly (23.55 sec) |
1995 |
Sandra Volker swims European record 50m backstroke (27.67 sec) |
1995 |
Space shuttle STS-63 (Discovery 19), lands |
1995 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge |
1995 |
West Indies score 5-660 against NZ |
1996 |
46th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 129-118 at San Antonio |
1997 |
Bill Parcells becomes head coach of NY Jets |
1997 |
STS 82 (Discovery 22) launches |
1998 |
KVBC-FM (Las Vegas) offers Monica Lewinsky $5M for interview |
1998 |
Lyrics to "Candle in the Wind 1997," auctioned for $442,500 |
2007 |
A national referendum in Portugal legalises non-therapeutic abortion when requested by the woman during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy. |
2007 |
49th Grammy Awards: Not Ready To Make Nice, Carrie Underwood wins |
2008 |
In East Timor, assassination attempts were made on Xanana Gusmao and Jose Ramos-Horta. Both failed. |
2011 |
Egyptian Revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 18 days of protests. |
2012 |
Israeli Air Force conducts four air strikes in Gaza Strip |
2013 |
Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation from February 28, the first pope to resign since 1415 |
2013 |
18 coal miners are killed in an explosion in the Komi region, Russia |
2014 |
11 people are killed after a grenade was tossed into a movie theatre in Peshawar, Pakistan |
2014 |
77 people are killed after a military transport plan crashes in Algeria |
2016 |
S. Korea Shuts Down Joint Industrial Park With N. Korea |
2016 |
Gravitational waves have been found, scientists say |
2016 |
North Korea army chief Ri Yong-gil said to be executed |
2016 |
Female suicide bombers kill 58 in a Nigerian camp meant to be a safe haven |
2016 |
Death Toll From War in Syria Now 470000, Group Finds |
2017 |
New Zealanders Refloat 100 Pilot Whales After 400 Stranded |
2017 |
Quake in southern Philippines kills at least 4 people |
2017 |
Mexico warns citizens in US after woman deported |
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