February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 323 days remaining until the end of the year (324 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Tuesday or Wednesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Friday or Sunday (56).
NATIONAL WHITE SHIRT DAY
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.
NATIONAL WHITE SHIRT DAY
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.
1531 – Henry VIII is recognized as supreme head of the Church in England following the schism with Rome.
1766 – The British Stamp Act of 1765 is declared unconstitutional in Virginia.
1790 – The Religious Society of Friends petitions Congress for the abolition of slavery.
1808 – Anthracite coal is fist burned as fuel, experimentally, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
1916 – Germany and Austria-Hungary notify the United States that they will sink any armed merchant ship starting on 1 March.
1766 – The British Stamp Act of 1765 is declared unconstitutional in Virginia.
1790 – The Religious Society of Friends petitions Congress for the abolition of slavery.
1808 – Anthracite coal is fist burned as fuel, experimentally, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
1903 – The United States 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.
1916 – Germany and Austria-Hungary notify the United States that they will sink any armed merchant ship starting on 1 March.
1918 – Russian General Alexei Maximovitch Kaledin, a commander of Russian forces during World War I and a staunch opponent of the Bolsheviks, commits suicide on this day in 1918.
1929 – Vatican City (the world's smallest country) is made an enclave of Rome.
1937 – A 44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint, Michigan ends with GM signing the first Auto Workers contract.
1937 – A 44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint, Michigan ends with GM signing the first Auto Workers contract.
1943 – United States General Dwight Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe; British Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery is not best pleased.
1974 – Libya nationalizes three United States oil companies that had not agreed to 51 percent nationalization in September, 1973.
1956 – Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, former members of the British Foreign Office who had disappeared from England in 1951, resurface in Moscow. Their surprise appearance and formal statement to the press put an end to one of the most intriguing mysteries of the early Cold War.
1960 – The Payola scandal reaches a new level of public prominence and legal gravity on this day in 1960, when President Eisenhower called it an issue of public morality and the FCC proposed a new law making involvement in Payola a criminal act.
1974 – The first baseball arbitration case, with Twins pitcher Dick Woodson seeking $29,000, wins. The had offered $23,000.
1974 – Libya nationalizes three United States oil companies that had not agreed to 51 percent nationalization in September, 1973.
1975 – Britain's Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for leadership of the British Conservative Party.
1979 – Iran's premier Bakhtiar resigns, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini seizes power and institutes an Islamic state.
1986 – Activist Anatoly Shcharansky is released by the USSR and leaves country.
1990 – Nelson Mandela, leader of the movement to end South African apartheid, is released from prison after 27 years.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1796 – Giovanni Pacini, Italian composer and educator (d. 1867)
1812 – Alexander H. Stephens, American lawyer and politician, Vice President of the Confederate States of America (d. 1883)
1847 – Thomas Edison, American engineer and businessman, developed the light bulb and phonograph (d. 1931)
1909 – Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1993)
1941 – Sérgio Mendes, Brazilian pianist and composer
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2011 – An Egyptian Revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 18 days of protests.
2013 – Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation from February 28, the first pope to resign since 1415.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1796 – Giovanni Pacini, Italian composer and educator (d. 1867)
1812 – Alexander H. Stephens, American lawyer and politician, Vice President of the Confederate States of America (d. 1883)
1847 – Thomas Edison, American engineer and businessman, developed the light bulb and phonograph (d. 1931)
1909 – Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1993)
1941 – Sérgio Mendes, Brazilian pianist and composer
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
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