Today in History
11 February
Jarena Lee, famous African
Robert Fulton
Saint Bernadette of Lourdes, originally Marie-Bernarde Soubirous, first saw a vision of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes, France
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| 1465 Elizabeth of York, London, Consort of King Henry VII was born |
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| 1506 Juliana van Stolberg, engraver of Nassau was born | ||
| 1531 Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of Church in England | ||
| 1543 Battle at Wayna Daga: Ethiopian/Portugese troops beat Moslem army | ||
| 1543 Karel/Henry VIII sign anti-French covenant | ||
| 1573 English explorer Francis Drake first saw the Pacific Ocean. | ||
| 1575 King Frederick of Denmark offers island of Hveen to Tycho Brahe | ||
| 1638 Dutch countess Louise of Solms marries earl John of Brederode | ||
| 1657 Bernard Fontenelle, France, scientist/writer (Plurality of Worlds) was born | ||
| 1720 Sweden & Prussia sign peace (2nd Treaty of Stockholm) | ||
| 1752 Pennsylvania Hospital, the 1st hospital in the US, opened | ||
| 1755 Severndroog and other key towns on the coast of India were taken by the British. | ||
| 1766 Stamp Act declared unconstitutional in Virginia | ||
| 1783 Jarena Lee, famous African was born | ||
| 1790 Society of Friends petitions Congress for abolition of slavery | ||
| 1793 Prussian troops occupy Venlo Netherland | Jarena Lee, famous African |
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| 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 | ||
| 1810 Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria | ||
| 1811 President Madison prohibits trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years | ||
| 1812 Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry signed a law changing the state's electoral boundaries to ensure a Republican majority. The move gave rise to the term "gerrymandering." | ||
| 1814 Norway's independence proclaimed | ||
| 1826 London University founded |
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| 1837 American Physiological Society organizes in Boston | ||
| 1840 Gaetano Donizetti's Opera "La Fille du Regiment," premieres in Paris | ||
| 1854 Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time | ||
| 1858 Saint Bernadette of Lourdes, originally Marie-Bernarde Soubirous, first saw a vision of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes, France, leading to the foundation of the shrine of Lourdes. | ||
| 1858 Benito Juarez was declared Constitutional President of Mexico at Vera Cruz. | ||
| 1873 Amadeo, king of Spain, abdicated, leading to the proclamation of the first Spanish republic. | ||
| 1878 1st weekly Weather report published in UK | ||
| 1888 Lobengula, King of the Matabeleland in southern Africa, entered into an agreement with the British government on mineral rights. | ||
| 1889 The Japanese constitution was granted, with a two-chamber parliament, but the Emperor retained extensive powers. | ||
| 1889 Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890 | ||
| 1895 Georgetown became part of Wash DC | ||
| 1896 Oscar Wildes "Salom‚," premieres in Paris | ||
| 1902 Police beats up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels | ||
| 1905 Pope Pius X publishes encyclical Vehementer nos | Robert Fulton |
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| 1907 De Master's Dutch governament resigns | ||
| 1907 Passenger ship Larchmont sinks by Block Island, 322 die | ||
| 1908 Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory vs England | ||
| 1908 Heemskerk's governament begins in Holland | ||
| 1916 Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control | ||
| 1919 Friedrich Ebert was elected first president of the German republic. He helped bring about the Weimar constitution that tried to unite Germany after World War One. | ||
| 1922 US intervention army leaves Honduras | ||
| 1928 2nd Winter Olympic games opens in St Moritz, Switzerland | ||
| 1929 The Lateran Treaty was signed establishing an independent Vatican State in Rome. | ||
| 1935 1st US airplane flight with auto slung beneath fuselage, NY | ||
| 1941 Lt-Gen Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli | ||
| 1943 General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe | ||
| 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 The Yalta Conference between Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt ended with agreement on the founding of the U.N., as well as plans for the defeat of Germany. | ||
| 1948 John Costello follows Eamon Da Valera as premier of Ireland |
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| 1951 Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana) | ||
| 1953 Pres Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple | ||
| 1953 Russia breaks diplomatic relations with Israel | ||
| 1961 Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black | ||
| 1961 Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem | ||
| 1964 Greek & Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus | ||
| 1964 Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France | ||
| 1968 Israeli-Jordan border fight | ||
| 1970 Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite (Osumi) in orbit | ||
| 1971 40 nations signed a treaty banning atomic weapons from the sea bed. | ||
| 1975 Margaret Thatcher became the first woman leader of a British political party when she was elected leader of the Conservatives. | ||
| 1975 In the Malagasy Republic, President Richard Ratsimandrava was assassinated after only six days in office. | ||
| 1976 Britain and the Organization of African Unity recognized the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola. | ||
| 1978 China lifts a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare, & Dickens |
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| 1979 Iranian Prime Minister Dr. Shahpur Bakhtiar resigned after two days of fighting in the streets of Tehran. | ||
| 1981 Polish premier Jozef Pinkowski replaced by Wojciech Jaruzelski | ||
| 1986 In an East-West exchange of prisoners in Berlin, Anatoly Shcharansky was released from the Soviet side. | ||
| 1986 Iran begins Fajr-8 offensive against Iraq | ||
| 1987 British Airways begins trading stocks | ||
| 1987 Philippines constitution goes into effect | ||
| 1989 Barbara Clementine Harris consecrated 1st female bishop (Episcopalian) | ||
| 1990 Nelson Mandela, black nationalist leader in South Africa, was released from prison after serving 27 years. | ||
| 1992 F-16 jet crashes at residential district of Hengelo Neth (No deaths) | ||
| 1993 Former prime minister Bettino Craxi resigned as leader of Italy's Socialists over a corruption scandal that had rocked the government. | ||
| 1994 Space shuttle STS-60 (Discovery 18), lands | ||
| 1994 The U.N. commander in Sarajevo accused renegade troops of trying to sabotage a ceasefire in the city but warring Muslims and Serbs began to turn in some of their heavy weapons. | ||
| 1994 Five astronauts and a cosmonaut returned to Earth aboard Discovery after the first joint U.S.-Russian space shuttle mission. | ||
| 1996 A crowd of up to one million turned out for Pope John Paul II's last mass of his Latin American tour. | ||
C.H. OSTFELD