Historical Events and Current Affairs on February 11

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: 1st European, Francis Drake sees the Pacific (from Panama)
1575: King Frederick of Denmark offers island of Hveen to Tycho Brahe
1638: Dutch countess Louise of Solms marries earl John of Brederode
1720: Sweden & Prussia sign peace (2nd Treaty of Stockholm)
1752: Pennsylvania Hospital, the 1st hospital in the US, opened
1766: Stamp Act declared unconstitutional in Virginia
1768: Samuel Adams letter, circulates around American colonies, opposing
1768: Townshend Act taxes
1790: Society of Friends petitions Congress for abolition of slavery
1793: Prussian troops occupy Venlo Neth
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: Pres Madison prohibits trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years
1812: Mass Gov Gerry signs a redistricting bill-1st "gerrymander"
1814: Norway's independence proclaimed
1826: London University founded
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
1852: 1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London)
1854: Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time
1858: 1st apparition of Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes France
1861: President-elect Lincoln takes train from Spingfield IL to Wash DC
1861: US House unanimously passes resolution guaranteeing noninterference
1861: 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: -17øF (-27.2øC) in Braemar, Grampian (UK record)
1895: Georgetown became part of Wash DC
1896: Oscar Wildes "Salom‚," premieres in Paris
1897: White Rose Mission opens on East 97th Street, NYC
1898: Owen Smith of NC, AME Zion minister, named minister to Liberia
1899: -15øF (-26øC), Washington, DC (district record)
1899: -61øF, Montana (record low temperature)
1902: Police beats up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels
1903: Anton Bruckner's 9th Symfonie premieres in Vienna
1905: James Blackstone, Seattle, bowls 299«-last pin breaks but stands
1905: Pope Pius X publishes encyclical Vehementer nos
1907: A Kopff discovers asteroids #625 Xenia & #626 Notburga
1907: De Master's Dutch govt resigns
1907: Passenger ship Larchmont sinks by Block Island, 322 die
1908: Heemskerk's govt begins in Holland
1916: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its 1st concert
1916: Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control
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
1935: -11øF (-24øC), 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: 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: Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill & Stalin
1948: John Costello follows Eamon Da Valera as premier of Ireland
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: Russia breaks diplomatic relations with Israel
1954: 6th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Donald O'Connor & Eve Arden wins
1957: KUMV TV channel 8 in Williston, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957: NHL Players Assn forms (NYC), Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected president
1958: 1st flight with black stewardess, RC Taylor, Ithaca NY
1958: Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Min of Foreign affairs
1958: Ruth Carol Taylor is 1st Afr-American woman hired as flight attendant
1958: WTVC TV channel 9 in Chattanooga, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1960: Jack Paar walks off his TV show
1961: Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black
1961: Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem
1962: Beatles record "Please, Please Me"
1963: Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album
1963: CIA Domestic Operations Division created (pretty scary!)
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: Beatle Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox
1965: Braves propose to pay 5› from each ticket to bring a new team to Milw
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 MSG 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 œ1,344 fines for 96 protesting South African
1970: 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: Philadelphia 76ers lose their 20th NBA game in a row
1974: 1st baseball arbitration Twins pitcher Dick Woodson seeking $29,000
1974: Dick Woodson is 1st of 48 to invoke baseball's new arbitration rule
1974: Titan-Centaur Test launch fails
1974: wins, Twins offered $23,000
1975: Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for Conservative leadership
1976: Clifford Alexander Jr confirmed as 1st black 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 organization 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: 3594 Scotti, #4764 Joneberhart & #5200 Pamal
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: Jordan king Hussein & PLO leader Arafat sign accord
1985: Kent Hrbek signs 5-year, $6 million contract with Minn Twins
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: #4825 Ventura, #5204 Herakleitos, #6001 Thales, #6186 Zenon,
1988: #6294 Czerny, #6295 Schmoll, #7012 Hobbes
1988: Anthony M Kennedy appointed to 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 to win heavyweight boxing crown
1990: Nelson Mandela (political prisoner-27 years) freed 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 Neth (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 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 V”lker 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

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