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Today in History ~ February 11
Events1531 - Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of Church in England
1543 - Battle at Wayna Daga: Ethiopian/Portugese troops beat Moslem army
1573 - 1st Englishman, Sir Francis Drake sees the Pacific (from Panama)
1752 - Pennsylvania Hospital, the 1st hospital in the US opens
1766 - Stamp Act declared unconstitutional in Virginia
1768 - Samuel Adams letter, opposing Townshend Act taxes, circulates around American colonies,
1790 - Society of Friends petitions Congress for abolition of slavery
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 - Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge Gerry signed a redistricting law favoring his party _ giving rise to the term "gerrymandering."
1826 - London University founded
1840 - Gaetano Donizetti's Opera "La Fille du Regiment," premieres in Paris
1843 - Giuseppe Verdi's 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 Virgin Mary" to 14-year-old Bernadette Sourbirous of Lourdes, France [H]
1861 - President-elect Lincoln takes train from Spingfield IL to Washington DC, to avoid recognition by hostile crowds and pro-slavers
1861 - US House unanimously passes resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state
1895 - Georgetown became part of Wash, DC
1896 - Oscar Wilde's "Salome," premieres in Paris
1902 - Police beat up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels
1903 - Anton Bruckner's 9th Symfonie premieres in Vienna
1907 - Passenger ship Larchmont sinks near Block Island, 322 die
1916 - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its 1st concert
1916 - Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control
1922 - "April Showers" by Al Jolson hits #1
1922 - US "intervention army" leaves Honduras
1929 - The Lateran Treaty was signed, with Italy recognizing the independence and sovereignty of Vatican City (world's smallest country)
1936 - Pumping begins to build Treasure Island in SF Bay
1937 - 44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint, Mich ends, with the company agreeing to recognize the United Automobile Workers Union.
1941 - Lt-Gen Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli ("I have arrived!")
1942 - "Archie" comic book debuts
1943 - General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe
1943 - Transport # 47 departs with French Jews to Nazi Germany
1945 - 1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey, CA
1945 - President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin signed the Yalta Agreement during World War II. [H]
1950 - "Rag Mop" by The Ames Brothers hit #1
1951 - Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana)
1953 - President Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
1953 - Russia breaks diplomatic relations with Israel
1960 - Jack Parr walked off The Tonight Show after NBC censored his slightly off-color water closet joke the night before. He returned to the late-night show March 7.
1961 - Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem
1963 - CIA Domestic Operations Division created
1964 - Beatles 1st live appearance in US; Washington, DC Coliseum
1965 - U.S. and South Vietnamese planes made the first bombing raids on North Vietnam.
1970 - Japan put a satellite in space, following in the footsteps of the Soviet Union, the United States and France.
1972 - McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. and Life magazine canceled plans to publish what had turned out to be a fake autobiography of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes.
1975 - Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for Conservative leadership
1977 - 20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean)
1978 - China lifts a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare, & Dickens
1979 - "They're Playing Our Song" opens at Imperial NYC for 1082 performances
1979 - 43 million watch "Elvis!" on ABC
1979 - Iran's premier Bakhtiar resigns, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini seized power in Iran.
1985 - Jordan king Hussein & PLO leader Arafat sign accord
1986 - Activist Anatoly Scharansky released by USSR, leaves country
1987 - Corazon Aquino was sworn in for a six-year presidential term under the new Philippine constitution.
1988 - Anthony M Kennedy appointed to Supreme Court
1989 - Rev. Barbara C. Harris became the first woman consecrated as a bishop in the Episcopal Church, in a ceremony held in Boston.
1990 - Nelson Mandela (political prisoner for 27 years) freed in South Africa
1992 - Secretary of State James A. Baker III, on a tour of six former Soviet republics, visited Armenia, where he heard an appeal from the republic's president for U.S. help in resolving a bloody feud with neighboring Azerbaijan.
1992 - One police officer was killed and four persons injured in a terrorist attack on the U.S. ambassador's residence in Lima, Peru.
1992 - A study said drinking three cups of coffee a day does not raise the risk of heart disease.
1993 - President Clinton announced his choice of Miami prosecutor Janet Reno to be the nation's first female attorney general.
1993 - A 20-year-old Ethiopian student hijacked a Lufthansa airliner en route from Frankfurt, Germany, to Cairo. He forced the pilot to fly to New York City, where he surrendered peacefully.
1993 - British Prime Minister John Majors said Queen Elizabeth II will pay income tax on all her personal income, as well as being subject to capital and inheritance levies.
1993 - Star baseball pitcher Nolan Ryan announced he would retire after the 1993 season.
1994 - President Clinton announced that U.S.-Japanese trade talks had failed to reach an agreement.
1994 - The trial of Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, began and ended abruptly with her acquittal of charges she misused state funds and employees for political purposes.
1997 - In a display of bipartisan unity, President Clinton and congressional leaders agreed to focus the new Congress on balancing the budget and other issues ranging from cutting taxes to solving the capital city's myriad problems.
1997 - Space shuttle Discovery was launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
1997 - Bill Parcells becomes head coach of NY Jets
1998 - Olympic officials took away the gold medal of Canadian snowboarder Ross Rebagliati after he tested positive for a minute amount of marijuana. He blamed second-hand smoke. An arbitration panel would restore his medal two days later.
1998 - A federal judge ruled that pro golfer Casey Martin, who suffered from a circulatory disorder that made it hard for him to walk, was covered by the American with Disabilities Act and should be allowed to use a golf cart to complete in PGA tournaments.
1998 - KVBC-FM (Las Vegas) offers Monica Lewinsky $5M for interview
2001 - Two space commanders opened the door to Destiny, the American-made science laboratory attached the day before to the international space station.
2001 - Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh was demolished to clear the way for new separate baseball and football stadiums nearby.
2002 - The Russian figure skating pair won the gold medal in the Winter Olympics over the overwhelming crowd favorite Canadian team but a judging controversy that grew into an international scandal prompted the International Skating Union to award a gold medal to Canada also.
Birthdays Today
1380 - Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italy, humanist
1465 - Elizabeth of York, London, Consort of King Henry VII
1657 - Bernard Fontenelle, France, scientist/writer (Plurality of Worlds)
1755 - Albert Christoph Dies, composer
1764 - Marie-Joseph de Chenier, French poet (Cajus Graechus)
1812 - Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice Pres (Confederacy), died in 1883
1821 - Auguste Edouard Mariette, Fren egyptologist, (dug out Sphinx 12/16/42)
1846 - William Fox Talbot, pioneer photographer/inventor
1847 - Thomas Alva Edison, Milan Ohio, (inventor of more than 1200 patented ideas including the electric light bulb, phonograph; "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.") [H]
1867 - August W Messer, German philosopher/educator/psychologist
1887 - Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstangl, German politition - confidente of Hitler/NSDAP & American school chum of Roosevelt )
1889 - John Mills (musician: bass notes & guitar: group: The Mills Brothers: Dinah, Tiger Rag, Nobody's Sweetheart, St. Louis Blues, Bugle Call Rag, Swing It Sister, Sleepy Head)
1898 - Leo Szilard, Hungary, physicist/A-bomb worker/peace activist
1908 - Josh White ('The Singing Christian': blues/folk singer, guitarist)
1909 - Max Baer (boxer) (father of Max Baer Jr. of The Beverly Hillbillies [Jethro Bodine])
1912 - Rudolf Firkusny, Napajedla Czechoslovakia, pianist (Julliard)
1914 - Matt Dennis (pianist, singer: recorded vocals for Paul Whiteman)
1919 - Eddie Robinson (football coach: record for most victories in overall NCAA competition [388])
1920 - Farouk I, Cairo, last King of Egypt (1936-52)
1925 - Kim Stanley (Patricia Reid) (actress: The Right Stuff))
1925 - Virginia E Johnson, doctor/sexologist (Masters & Johnson)
1926 - Eva Gabor (actress: Green Acres, Gigi, The Last Time I Saw Paris)
1926 - Leslie Nielsen (actor: Police Squad, Airplane, Airplane II, Naked Gun, Naked Gun 2-1/2, Naked Gun 33-1/3, Dead and Loving It)
1926 - Paul Bocuse, France, great chef (Legion of Honor)
1931 - Larry Merchant (author, sportscaster: HBO Boxing)
1934 - Mary Quant, Kent England, fashion designer (Chelsea Look, Mod Look)
1935 - Gene Vincent (Craddock) (singer: Be-Bop-A-Lula, Lotta Lovin', Dance to the Bop; actor: The Girl Can't Help It)
1936 - Burt Reynolds (actor: Evening Shade, Gunsmoke, Deliverance, Smokey and the Bandit, Cannonball Run, The Longest Yard, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas)
1937 - Tina Louise (Blacker) (actress: Gilligan's Island [Ginger])
1939 - Gerry Goffin (lyricist: w/Carole King: Will You Love Me Tomorrow, You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman; w/Michael Masser: Tonight I Celebrate My Love, Saving All My Love for You)
1940 - Bobby 'Boris' Pickett (singer: The Monster Mash)
1941 - Sergio Mendes (musician: Brasil '66, Brasil '77, Brasil '88: Fool on the Hill, Mas Que Nada, The Look of Love)
1944 - Bert Greene (golfer)
1950 - Clarence Ellis (football)
Famous deaths
0641 - Heraclius, emperor of Byzantium (610-641), dies at about 65
0731 - Gregory II, Greek-Syrian Pope, dies
0867 - Theodora, the Saint, beauty queen/empress of Byzantine, dies
1503 - Elizabeth of York, Consort of King Henry VII, dies on 38th birthday
1543 - Ahmed Gran, sultan of Adal, dies in battle
1554 - Lady Jane Grey, deposed Queen of England, beheaded after 9 day rule
1685 - David Teniers III, Flemish painter, dies at 46
1806 - Vicente Martin y Soler, composer, dies at 51
1868 - Leon Foucault, discovers 1st physical proof of Earth's rotation, dies
1879 - Honore Daumier, caricaturist/painter, dies
1931 - Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine), dies at 76
1939 - Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer, dies at 64
1948 - Sergy Eisenstein, film director, dies at 50
1961 - Patrice Lumumba, 1st premier Congo, murdered at 34
1963 - Sylvia Plath, poet/novelist (Ariel), kills herself in London at 30
1971 - Whitney Young Jr, National Urban League director, drowns in Nigeria
1976 - Lee J Cobb, actor (12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront), dies at 64
1986 - Frank [Patrick] Herbert, sci-fi author (Dune), dies at 65
1991 - Oscar Nitzchke, German architect (Alcoa building), dies at 90
1993 - George A Stephen, inventor (Weber Kettle Grill), dies at 71
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