February 11

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2008 Calendar

February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 323 days remaining, 324 in leap years.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances

[change] Events

660 BC - Traditional founding date of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno.
731 - Gregory II ends his reign as Pope.
824 - Paschal I ends his reign as Pope.
1531 - Henry VIII of England recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.
1543 - Battle of Wayna Daga - Ethiopian/Portuguese troops beat Muslim army.
1752 - Pennsylvania Hospital, 1st hospital in the United States, opens.
1790 - Society of Friends petitions United States Congress for abolition of slavery.
1794 - First session of United States Senate open to the public.
1808 - Anthracite coal first burned as fuel, experimentally.
1809 - Robert Fulton patents the steamboat
1810 - Napoléon marries Marie-Louise of Austria.
1812 - Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry gerrymanders for the first time.
1814 - Norway's independence is proclaimed, marking the ultimate end of the Kalmar Union
1826 - University College London is founded under the name University of London.
1837 - American Physiological Society organizes in Boston, Massachusetts.
1840 - Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Fille du Régiment receives its first performance in Paris.
1843 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi receives its first performance in Milan.
1858 - The Blessed Virgin Mary reputedly appears to Saint Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes.
1861 - American Civil War: United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
1873 - King Amadeus I of Spain abdicates.
1889 - Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet of Japan convenes in 1890
1902 - Police beat up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels.
1903 - Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna.
1905 - Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos.
1908 - Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory over England.
1916 - Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control.
1919 - Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected President of Germany.
1928 - 1928 Winter Olympic Games open in St. Moritz, Switzerland
1929 - Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
1937 - A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Automobile Workers Union.
1938 - BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R.U.R. (This play coined the term 'robot.')
1941 - First Gold record presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo".
1943 - General Dwight D. Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
1945 - Yalta Conference ends.
1948 - John Costello succeeds Éamon de Valera as Taoiseach of Ireland.
1953 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
1953 - The Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel.
1961 - Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
1963 - The Beatles tape 10 tracks for their first album, including "Please, Please Me".
1964 - At the Washington, DC Coliseum, The Beatles have their 1st live appearance in the United States.
1964 - Greeks and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus.
1964 - The Republic of China (Taiwan) breaks off diplomatic relations with France.
1968 - Israeli-Jordanian border clashes.
1968 - Madison Square Garden III closes and Madison Square Garden IV opens in New York City
1971 - US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons in international waters.
1973 - Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place.
1978 - Censorship: China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, Shakespeare and Dickens.
1979 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini seizes power in Iran.
1981 - 100,000 gallons (380 m&sup3) of radioactive coolant leak into the containment building of TVA Sequoyah 1 nuclear plant in Tennessee, contaminating 8 workers
1986 - Rights activist Anatoly Scharansky, released by the USSR, leaves the country.
1987 - Philippines constitution goes into effect.
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.
1991 - UNPO, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, forms in The Hague, Netherlands.
1992 - Art band The KLF subvert the UK's Brit Awards
1999 - Pluto, a planet with an irregular orbit, changes from the eighth to ninth planet furthest from the sun. It had been the eighth furthest since 1979.

[change] Births

1380 - Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist (died 1459)
1465 - Elizabeth of York, consort of King Henry VII of England (died 1503)
1535 - Pope Gregory XIV (died 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 (1827-1831) (died 1836)
1780 - Karoline von Günderode, poet (died 1806)
1790 - Ignaz Assmayer, composer
1800 - William Henry Fox Talbot, English photographic pioneer (died 1877)
1802 - Lydia Child, novelist and abolitionist (died 1880)
1810 - Loisa Puget, composer
1812 - Benjamin Franklin Sands, Commander (Union Navy)
1812 - Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America, (died 1883)
1813 - Otto Ludwig, German novelist, playwright, critic
1819 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer
1821 - Hermann Allmers, writer
1821 - Auguste Edouard Mariette, French Egyptologist
1830 - Peter Arnold Heise, composer
1830 - Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf, musician (died 1913)
1833 - Melville Weston Fuller, 8th Chief Justice of the United States
1839 - Josiah Willard Gibbs, theoretical physicist, chemist (died 1903)
1847 - Thomas Alva Edison, inventor (died 1931)
1860 - Rachilde (Marguérite Vallette-Eymery), French author (died 1953)
1867 - August W Messer, German philosopher, educator, psychologist
1869 - Helene Kroller-Muller, Dutch museum founder and patron of the arts
1869 - Else Lasker-Schüler, lyricist, dramatist and narrator (died 1945)
1873 - Feodor Chaliapin, Russian singer (died 1938)
1874 - Elsa Beskow (Maartman), Swedish children's book and fairy tales author, (died 1953)
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 - John van Melle, South African writer (died 1953)
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 - Isaac Kolthoff, chemist
1894 - Alfonso Leng, composer (died 1974)
1895 - Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky, composer
1896 - Else Lasker-Schüler, writer
1897 - Yves de La Casiniere, composer
1898 - Leó Szilárd, physicist, peace activist (died 1964)
1900 - Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (died 2002)
1900 - Thomas Hitchcock Jr, polo player
1902 - Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect/designer (died 1971)
1903 - Hans Redlich, composer (d. 1968)
1904 - Sir Keith Holyoake, Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1983)
1904 - Henry LaBouisse, head of UNICEF
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 linguist, author, novelist
1908 - Vivian Ernest Fuchs, geologist, explorer (died 1999)
1908 - Josh White
1909 - Max Baer (The Livermore Larruper), boxer, actor
1909 - Joseph Mankiewicz, director
1911 - Alec Cairncross, chancellor of the University of Glasgow.
1912 - Roy Fuller, English poet/novelist
1912 - Rudolf Firkusny Napajedla, pianist
1913 - Lucio Diestro, composer
1914 - Matt Dennis, singer
1914 - French Duynstee, Dutch constitutional lawyer
1914 - Winand Borgerhoff Mulder, court judge of Amsterdam
1914 - Menelaos Pallantios, composer
1915 - Patrick Leigh Fermor, author
1915 - Mervyn Levy, artist, critic
1915 - Haakon Stotijn, Dutch oboist
1916 - Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco, California
1916 - Bernice Levin Neugarten, social scientist, gerontologist
1917 - Sidney Sheldon, author
1919 - Gretchen Fraser, slalom skier
1919 - Eva Gabor, actress (died 1995)
1919 - Eddie Robinson, college football coach.
1920 - King Farouk I of Egypt (died 1965)
1920 - Daniel Galouye, American science fiction author
1920 - Billy Halop, actor
1920 - Paul Peter Piech, artist (died 1996)
1921 - Lloyd Bentsen, American politician
1922 - Tudor Jarda, composer
1922 - Leslie Nielsen, actor
1923 - Ronald Arculus, British diplomat
1924 - Mary Tregear, Oriental art historian
1925 - Peter Berger, British Vice-Admiral
1925 - Virginia Johnson, doctor, sexologist
1925 - Kim Stanley, actress (died 2001)
1926 - Paul Bocuse, French chef
1926 - Alexander Gibson, British conductor/founder of the Scottish Opera
1928 - Gerry Alexander, West Indies cricket player
1928 - Raoul Cita, rocker
1928 - Gotthilf Fischer, choirmaste
1928 - Archibald Forster, CEO (Esso UK)
1928 - Conrad Janis, actor
1929 - Leonard Gregory Kastle, composer
1930 - C H Dearnley, organist
1930 - Alevtina Koltschina, Soviet skier
1931 - Larry Merchant, author, boxing commentator
1932 - Jerome Lowenthal, pianist, professor
1934 - Tina Louise, actress
1934 - Francesco Pennisi, composer
1934 - Mary Quant, fashion designer
1934 - John Surtees, British race car driver
1935 - Bent Lorentzen, composer
1936 - Burt Reynolds, actor
1937 - Lodewijk Boer, Dutch violinist, playwright
1937 - Marilyn Butler, Rector of Exeter College, Oxford
1937 - Peter Lashley, West Indies cricket player
1937 - Bill Lawry, Australian cricket player
1938 - Bevan Congdon, New Zealand cricket player
1938 - Willy Correa de Oliveira, composer
1938 - Manuel Noriega, Panamanian general and dictator
1939 - Gerry Goffin, lyricist
1939 - Jane Yolen, science fiction author
1940 - Bobby Picket, musician
1941 - Sergio Mendes, musician, songwriter
1942 - Otis Clay, gospel qand R&B singer
1943 - Iain Cameron, British brigadier
1944 - Buddhadev Dasgupta, film director
1944 - Bert Greene, golfer
1953 - Philip Anglim, actor
1961 - Mary Docter, speed skater
1961 - Carey Lowell, actress
1962 - Sheryl Crow, musician
1969 - Jennifer Aniston, actress
1970 - Alistair Brown, English cricket player
1974 - D'Angelo, singer
1975 - Zsuzsa Hickel, Hungarian spiritualist
1975 - Chuck Watanabe, kayaker
1979 - Brandy Norwood, singer
1980 - Natasha Bobo, actress
1980 - Matthew Lawrence, actor
1981 - Kelly Rowland, singer (Destiny's Child)

[change] Deaths

641 - Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium in 610-641 (bborn ca. 575)
731 - Pope Gregory II
821 - Saint Benedict of Aniane (born ca. 747)
824 - Pope Paschal I
1141 - Hugo of St. Victor, philosopher, theologian, mystic
1503 - Elizabeth of York, consort of King Henry VII of England (born 1466)
1543 - Ahmed Gran, sultan of Adal
1622 - Alfonso Fontanelli, composer
1650 - René Descartes, philosopher (born 1596)
1685 - David Teniers III, Flemish painter
1762 - Johann Tobias Krebs, composer
1763 - William Shenstone, poet (born 1714)
1797 - Antoine Dauvergne, composer
1806 - Vicente Martin y Soler, composer
1841 - J H Ferdinand Olivier, German painter
1862 - Elizabeth Siddal, poet and artist (born 1829)
1868 - Léon Foucault, astronomer (born 1819)
1870 - Leopold Eugen Mechura, composer
1871 - Gaspard Théodore Ignace de la Fontaine, Luxemburg politician.
1879 - Honore Daumier, caricaturist/painter (born 1808)
1879 - Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch author
1882 - Gustav Schmidt, composer (born 1874)
1892 - Erik Anthon Valdemar Siboni, composer
1894 - Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera, composer
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 (born 1875)
1945 - Al Dubin, Swiss songwriter
1945 - J S H Lokerman, Dutch resistance fighter
1948 - Sergei Eisenstein, film director (born 1898)
1959 - Marshall Teague, race car driver (born 1922)
1960 - Ernst von Dohnanyi, Hungarian conductor (b. 1877)
1961 - Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor, director
1963 - Sylvia Plath, poet, novelist (born 1932)
1968 - Howard Lindsay, playwright
1970 - Emil Abranyi, composer
1971 - Whitney Young Jr, National Urban League director
1972 - Jan Wils, architect
1973 - Hans D Jensen, German physicist
1975 - Zsuzsa Hickel, Hungarian spiritualist
1976 - Lee J Cobb, actor
1976 - Alexander Lippisch, German aerodynamicist (born 1894)
1977 - Louis Beel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1946-1948, 1958-1959) (born 1902)
1978 - James B Conant, headmaster of Harvard University
1982 - Eleanor Powell, actress, dancer
1982 - Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor
1985 - Henry Hathaway actor, director
1985 - Ulysses Simpson Kay, composer
1985 - Heinz Eric Roemheld, composer
1986 - Frank Herbert, science fiction author (born 1920)
1989 - George O'Hanlon, actor, director
1991 - Oscar Nitzchke, German architect
1993 - George A Stephen, inventor
1994 - Neil Bonnett, NASCAR driver (born 1946)
1994 - Sorrell Brooke, actor
1994 - William Conrad, actor
1996 - Kebby Musokotwane, prime minister of Zambia
1996 - Cyril Poole, English cricket player
1996 - Amelia Rosselli, poet
2000 - Roger Vadim, French director (born 1928)
2003 - Arndt Brause, Schlager singer
2003 - Daniel Toscan du Plantier, movie producer