This Day in History for 11th February ◀ Jan February Mar ▶ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 All Events Birthdays Weddings Deaths Historical Events Events 1 - 100 of 186 660 BC - Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu 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. 385 - Oldest Pope elected; Siricius-bishop of Tarragona 824 - St Paschal I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 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 1575 - King Frederick of Denmark offers island of Hveen to Tycho Brahe 1659 - The assault on Copenhagen by Swedish forces is beaten back with heavy losses. 1720 - Sweden & Prussia sign peace (2nd Treaty of Stockholm) 1766 - Stamp Act declared unconstitutional in Virginia 1768 - Samuel Adams letter, circulates around American colonies, opposing 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 1811 - President Madison prohibits trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years 1812 - Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry signs a redistricting bill - 1st gerrymander Commercial Steamboat Inventor Robert FultonCommercial Steamboat Inventor Robert Fulton 1814 - Norways independence proclaimed 1826 - London University founded 1837 - American Physiological Society organizes in Boston 1840 - Gaetano Donizettis Opera La Fille du Regiment, premieres in Paris 1843 - Opera I Lombardi, premieres in Milan 1851 - 1st cricket 1st-class game in Australia, Tasmania v Vic, Launceston 1852 - 1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London) 1854 - Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time 1855 - Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam. 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 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 - -17°F (-27.2°C) in Braemar, Grampian (UK record) 1895 - Georgetown became part of Wash DC Writer/Poet Oscar WildeWriter/Poet Oscar Wilde 1896 - Oscar Wildes Salome, 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 - -15°F (-26°C), Washington, DC (district record) 1899 - -61°F, Montana (record low temperature) 1902 - Police beats up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels 1903 - Anton Bruckners 9th Symfonie premieres in Vienna 1905 - James Blackstone, Seattle, bowls 299½-last pin breaks but stands 1905 - Pope Pius X publishes encyclical Vehementer nos 1907 - De Masters Dutch government 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 - Heemskerks government 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 ONeills Dynamo, premieres in NYC 1929 - Vatican City (worlds smallest country) made an enclave of Rome 1932 - 73°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in February 1935 - -11°F (-24°C), 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) German WWII Field Marshal Erwin RommelGerman WWII Field Marshal Erwin Rommel 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 - Billy Griffith scores cricket century on debut Eng v WI, out for 140 1948 - John Costello follows Eamon Da Valera as premier of Ireland 1948 - Test Cricket debut of Frank Worrell, v England Port-of-Spain 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) 32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1953 - Hazel Flagg opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 190 performances 1953 - J Styne/B Hilliards 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 OConnor & Eve Arden wins 1957 - KUMV TV channel 8 in Williston, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting 1957 - NHL Players Association 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 1959 - Vinoo Mankad ends his final Test Cricket (v WI at Delhi) 1960 - Jack Paar walks off his TV show 1961 - Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black 1962 - Beatles record Please, Please Me 1963 - Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album 1 2 ▶ Famous Birthdays Birthdays 1 - 100 of 265 1377 - King Ladislas of Naples (d. 1414) 1380 - Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italy, humanist 1465 - Elizabeth of York, London, Consort of King Henry VII 1506 - Juliana van Stolberg, engraver of Nassau 1535 - Gregory XIV, [Niccolo Sfondrati], Roman Catholic pope (1590-91) 1557 - John Wtenbogaert, remonstrants theologist 1568 - Honoré dUrfé, French writer (d. 1625) 1649 - William Carstares, Scottish minister (d. 1715) 1657 - Bernard Fontenelle, France, scientist/writer (Plurality of Worlds) 1755 - Albert Christoph Dies, composer 1764 - Marie-Joseph de Chénier, French poet (Cajus Graechus) 1774 - Hans Järta, Swedish political activist (d. 1847) 1776 - Ioannis Kapodistrias, Greek diplomat of the Russian Empire and first head of state of independent Greece (d. 1831) 1783 - Jarena Lee, African American travelling minister 1790 - Ignaz Assmayer, composer 1799 - Basil Moreau, French Founder priest (d. 1873) 1800 - William Henry Fox Talbot, Wiltshire England, photographic pioneer 1802 - Lydia Maria Child, US, author/abolitionist (Juvenile Miscellany) 1810 - Loisa Puget, composer Confederate States VP Alexander H. StephensConfederate States VP Alexander H. Stephens (1812) 1812 - Alexander H. Stephens, US Confederate Vice President, died in 1883 1812 - Benjamin Franklin Sands, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883 1813 - Otto Ludwig, German writer and critic (d. 1865) 1819 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer 1821 - Hermann Allmers, writer 1821 - Auguste-Édouard Mariette, French Egyptologist (d. 1881) 1829 - William Anderson Pile, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1889 1830 - Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf, composer 1830 - Peter Arnold Heise, composer 1833 - Melville Weston Fuller, 8th chief justice 1839 - Josiah Willard Gibbs, theoretical physicist/chemist 1840 - Sanuel Dana Greene, Lt Cmdr (Union Navy), died in 1884 1847 - Thomas Alva Edison, Milan Ohio, lit up your life (held 1200 patents) 1860 - Rachilde, [Marguerite Vallette-Eymery], French author (Monsieur Venus) 1867 - August W Messer, German philosopher/educator/psychologist Inventor Thomas EdisonInventor Thomas Edison (1847) 1869 - Helene Kroller-Muller, Dutch museum founder (d. 1939) 1869 - Else Lasker-Schüler, German writer (d. 1945) 1873 - Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author/novelist (Pages from My Life) 1874 - Elsa Beskow, [Maartman], Swedish childrens book/fairy tales author 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 (Sulamith) 1887 - John van Melle, South African writer (Dawid Booysen) 1889 - John Mills, dancer (Mills Brothers) 1889 - Vladimir Mikhaylovich Deshevov, composer 1890 - John P M L de Vries, fairy tale writer 1890 - David Drummond, Australian politician (d. 1965) 1891 - J W Hearne, cricket leg-spinner (all-rounder for England in 24 Tests). Died 1965 1893 - Johan C P Alberts, Dutch literary (Festival) 1894 - Alfonso Leng, composer 1894 - Isaac M Kolthoff, chemist (Massenanalyse) 1895 - Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky, composer 1897 - Yves de La Casiniere, composer 1898 - Leo Szilard, Hungary, physicist/A-bomb worker/peace activist 1900 - Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher 1900 - Thomas Hitchcock Jr, great polo player (Westchester Cup 1924,27,30,39) 1900 - Josei Toda, Japanese educator (d. 1958) 1901 - Roddy Connolly, Irish politician, son of James Connolly (d. 1980) 1902 - Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect (d. 1971) 1903 - Hans Redlich, composer 1903 - Rex Lease, WV, actor (Fast Bullets, Sunny Skies, Custers Last Stand) 1904 - Henry R LaBouisse, headed UNICEF (1965-79) 1904 - Keith Holyoake, New Zealand PM (1960-72) 1905 - Beb [Elizabeth] Vuyk, Neth/Indonesian writer (Camp diary) 1906 - Denis Barnett, British air chief marshal 1907 - E W Swanton, author & sports commentator 1908 - Josh White, rocker 1908 - Sutan Takdir Alishahbana, Indonesian linguistic/author/novelist 1908 - Vivian [Ernest] Fuchs, geologist/explorer (British Antarctic Survey) 1909 - Joseph L Mankiewicz, Wilkes-Barre PA, film writer/director (Sleuth) 1909 - Max Baer, Omaha, Nebraska, American heavyweight boxing champ (1934-35) 1911 - Alec Cairncross, chancellor (Glasgow U) 1912 - Roy Fuller, Failsworth, Lancashire, English poet/novelist (Lost Season) 1912 - Rudolf Firkusny, Napajedla Czechoslovakia, pianist (Julliard) 1913 - Lucio Diestro San Pedro, composer 1914 - French Duynstee, Dutch constitutional lawyer 1914 - Matt Dennis, Seattle Wash, vocalist (Matt Dennis Show) 1914 - Menelaos Pallantios, composer 1914 - Winand J Borgerhoff Mulder, court judge of Amsterdam 1915 - Haakon Stotijn, Dutch oboist (VARA Orch, Orkestgebouw Orch) 1915 - Mervyn Levy, artist/critic 1915 - Patrick Leigh Fermor, author 1916 - Bernice Levin Neugarten, social scientist/gerontologist 1917 - Richard Jock Kinneir, graphic designer Novelist Sidney SheldonNovelist Sidney Sheldon (1917) 1917 - Sidney Sheldon, novelist (1947 Academy Award, 1959 Tony, Bloodline) 1917 - T. Nagi Reddy, Indian revolutionary (d. 1976) 1919 - Gretchen Fraser, Tacoma Wash, slalom skier (Olympic-gold-1948) 1919 - Eva Gabor, Hungarian-born actress (d. 1995) 1920 - Billy Halop, NYC, actor (Bert Munson-All in the Family) 1920 - Daniel F[rancis] Galouye, US, sci-fi author (Dark Universe, Last Leap) 1920 - Farouk I, Cairo, last King of Egypt (1936-52) 1920 - Paul Peter Piech, artist 1921 - Eva Gabor, Budapest Hungary, actress (Lisa-Green Acres, Gigi) 1921 - Lloyd Bentsen, (Sen-D-TX, 1971- )/1989 Dem VP nominee) 1921 - Edward Seidensticker, American scholar (d. 2007) 1922 - Tudor Jarda, composer 1923 - Baroness Sharples, made a life peer after the assassination of her husband (Sir Richard Sharples) 1923 - Ronald Arculus, British diplomat 1924 - Mary Tregear, Oriental art historian 1 2 3 ▶ Famous Weddings Weddings 1 - 4 of 4 1638 - Dutch countess Louise of Solms marries earl John of Brederode 1810 - French leader Napoleon I marries 2nd wife Marie-Louise of Austria 1965 - Beatle Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox 2006 - Mexican telenovela actor Guillermo Capetillo (47) weds model Tania Amezcua in Mixcoac, Mexico Famous Deaths Deaths 1 - 100 of 114 641 - Heraclius, emperor of Byzantium (610-641), dies at about 65 731 - Gregory II, Greek-Syrian Pope, dies 821 - Benedict of Aniane, saint, dies 824 - Paschal I, Italian Pope (817-24), dies 867 - Theodora, the Saint, beauty queen/empress of Byzantine, dies 1141 - Hugo of St-Victor, philosopher/theologist/mystic, dies 1160 - Minamoto no Yoshitomo, Japanese general (b. 1123) 1503 - Elizabeth of York, Consort of King Henry VII, dies on 38th birthday 1511 - Henry, Duke of Cornwall, son of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon 1543 - Ahmed Gran, sultan of Adal, dies in battle at Wayna Daga 1622 - Alfonso Fontanelli, composer, dies at 64 1626 - Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (b. 1552) 1650 - Rene Descartes, philosopher I think therefore I am, stops thinking 1685 - David Teniers III, Flemish painter, dies at 46 1713 - Jahandar Shah, Mughal emperor of India (b. 1664) 1755 - Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist (b. 1675) 1762 - Johann Tobias Krebs, composer, dies at 71 1763 - William Shenstone, English poet (b. 1714) 1797 - Antoine Dauvergne, composer, dies at 83 1806 - Vicente Martin y Soler, composer, dies at 51 1829 - Alexandr Griboyedov, Russian playwright (b. 1795) 1841 - J H Ferdinand Olivier, German painter, dies at 55 1862 - Elizabeth Siddal, British poet and artist (b. 1829) 1868 - Leon Foucault, discovers 1st physical proof of Earths rotation, dies 1870 - Jacob M de Kempenaer, Dutch min of Internal Aff (1848-49), dies at 76 1870 - Leopold Eugen Mechura, composer, dies at 66 1879 - Honore Daumier, caricaturist/painter, dies 1879 - Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch author/novelist/writer, dies at 67 1882 - Gustav Schmidt, composer, dies at 65 1892 - Erik Anthon Valdemar Siboni, composer, dies at 63 1894 - Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera, composer, dies at 70 1899 - George Morgan, 1st English motorist to die in an motor accident, dies 1901 - Milan I, king of Serbia, dies at 56 1903 - Henryk Szulc, composer, dies at 67 1907 - Peter J Savelberg, Dutch Limbourg monastery founder, dies at 80 1911 - Albert von Rothschild, baron/Austrian banker, dies at 66 1917 - Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician (b. 1872) 1922 - Gerardus J P Bolland, Dutch philosopher (Bolland Society), dies at 67 1923 - Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician (b. 1847) 1931 - Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine), dies at 76 1931 - Charles Parsons, inventor of the steam turbine, dies 1939 - Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer, dies at 64 1940 - John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Gov-Gen of Canada (1935-40), dies 1941 - Rudolf Hilferding, Germ economist/Min of Finance (SPD), suicide at 63 1944 - Ivan Sollertinski, friend of Russian composer D Sjostakovitsj, dies 1945 - Al Dubin, Swiss songwriter (Tiptoe Thru The Tulips), dies at 53 1945 - J S H Lokerman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Neugengamme 1948 - Sergy Eisenstein, film director, dies at 50 1954 - Adolph M. Christianson, justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court (b. 1877) 1958 - Ernest Jones, British psychonanalyst (b. 1879) 1959 - Marshall Teague, American race car driver (b. 1922) 1961 - Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor/director (Pygmalion), dies at 82 1961 - Patrice Lumumba, 1st premier Congo, murdered at 34 1963 - Sylvia Plath, poet/novelist (Ariel), kills herself in London at 30 1968 - Howard Lindsay, US playwright (State of the Union), dies at 78 1969 - James Lanphier, actor (Flight of Lost Balloon), dies at 48 1970 - Emil Abranyi, composer, dies at 87 1971 - Whitney Young Jr, National Urban League director, drowns in Nigeria 1972 - Jan Wils, architect (Olympian Stadium, Amsterdam), dies at 80 1973 - Hans D Jensen, German physicist (Nobel prize 1963), dies at 65 1974 - Anna Q Nilsson, actress (Toll Gate, Sorrell & Son), dies at 85 1975 - Richard Ratsimandrava, Malagasy soldier and statesman, assassinated (b. 1931) 1976 - Alice Allen, actress (Call of the Hills), dies 1976 - Charlie Naughton, actor (Frozen Limits), dies at 89 1976 - Lee J Cobb, actor (12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront), dies at 64 1976 - Alexander Lippisch, German scientist (b. 1894) 1976 - Frank Arnau, German writer (b. 1894) 1977 - Louis J M Beel, Dutch premier (1946-48, 58-59), dies at 74 1978 - James B Conant, headmaster (Harvard University), dies at 84 1978 - Harry Martinson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1904) 1982 - Eleanor Powell, tap dancer/wife of Glenn Ford, dies at 69 of cancer 1982 - Takashi Shimura, Japans actor (Rashomon, 7 Samurais), dies at 76 1982 - Victor Jory, Alaskan actor (Kings Row, Manhunt), dies at 79 1985 - Heinz Eric Roemheld, composer, dies of pneumonia at 83 1985 - Henry Hathaway, actor/director (Nob Hill), dies of heart attack at 86 1985 - Ulysses Sipmson Kay, composer, dies at 68 1985 - Ben Abruzzo, American businessman and balloonist (b. 1930) 1986 - Frank [Patrick] Herbert, sci-fi author (Dune), dies at 65 1986 - Evelio Javier, Filipino politician, lawyer, and civil servant (b. 1942) 1987 - Sadequain, famous Pakistani painter and artist. (b. 1930) 1989 - George OHanlon, actor/director (Bop Girl, Zamba), dies at 71 1991 - Oscar Nitzchke, German architect (Alcoa building), dies at 90 1991 - Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1922) 1992 - Ray Danton, US actor/director (Psychic Killer), dies at 60 1993 - George A Stephen, inventor (Weber Kettle Grill), dies at 71 1993 - Joy Garrett, actress (Days of Our Lives), dies of liver failure 1993 - Oksana Kostina, Russian gymnist, dies in an auto accident 1994 - Antonio Martin, Spanish cyclist, dies in cycling accident at 23 1994 - Sorrell Brooke, actor (Mayor Hogg-Dukes of Hazzard), dies at 64 1994 - William Conrad, actor (Cannon), dies of a heart attack at 73 1996 - Amelia Rosselli, poet, dies at 65 1996 - Bob Shaw, Irish science fiction writer, dies of cancer at 64 1996 - Cyril Poole, cricket (Notts 1946-62, England 1951-52 in 3 Tests), dies 1996 - Kebby Musokotwane, prime minister of Zambia in (1985-89), dies 1996 - Phil Regan, actor (Las Vegas Night, Dames, Housewife), dies at 88 1997 - Don Porter, actor (Gidget), dies at 84 2000 - Roger Vadim, French director (b. 1928) 2000 - Jacqueline Auriol, French aviatrix (b. 1917) 2002 - Barry Foster, British actor (b. 1931) 2002 - Frank Crosetti, baseball player (b. 1910)
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