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What Happened on February 11th This Day in History

Year	Name
2020	COVID-19 pandemic: The World Health Organization officially names the coronavirus outbreak as COVID-19, with the virus being designated SARS-CoV-2.
2018	Saratov Airlines Flight 703 crashes near Moscow, Russia with 71 deaths and no survivors.
2017	North Korea test fires a ballistic missile across the Sea of Japan.
2016	A man shoots six people dead at an education center in Jizan Province, Saudi Arabia.
2015	A university student was murdered as she resisted an attempted rape in Turkey, sparking nationwide protests and public outcry against harassment and violence against women.
2014	A military transport plane crashes in a mountainous area of Oum El Bouaghi Province in eastern Algeria, killing 77 people.
2013	The Vatican confirmed that Pope Benedict XVI would resign the papacy as a result of his advanced age.
2013	Militants claiming to be from the Sultanate of Sulu invade Lahad Datu District, Sabah, Malaysia, beginning the Lahad Datu standoff.
2011	Arab Spring: The first wave of the Egyptian revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 17 days of protests.
2008	Rebel East Timorese soldiers seriously wound President José Ramos-Horta. Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado is killed in the attack.
2001	A Dutch programmer launched the Anna Kournikova virus infecting millions of emails via a trick photo of the tennis star.
1999	Pluto crosses Neptune's orbit, ending a nearly 20-year period when it was closer to the Sun than the gas giant; Pluto is not expected to interact with Neptune's orbit again until 2231.
1997	Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
1990	Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.
1990	Buster Douglas, a 42:1 underdog, knocks out Mike Tyson in ten rounds at Tokyo to win boxing's world Heavyweight title.
1979	The Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
1978	Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314 crashes at the Cranbrook/Canadian Rockies International Airport in Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada with 42 deaths and seven survivors.
1971	Cold War: the Seabed Arms Control Treaty opened for signature outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters.
1970	Japan launches Ohsumi, becoming the fourth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.
1959	The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom.
1953	Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower denies all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
1953	Israeli-Soviet relations are severed.
1942	World War II: Second day of the Battle of Bukit Timah is fought in Singapore.
1938	BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
1937	The Flint sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers trade union.
1929	Kingdom of Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
1919	Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany.
1906	Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
1903	Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria.
1889	Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted.
1873	King Amadeo I of Spain abdicates, forming the First Spanish Republic.
1861	American Civil War: The United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
1858	Bernadette Soubirous's first vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary occurs in Lourdes, France.
1856	The Kingdom of Awadh is annexed by the British East India Company and Wajid Ali Shah, the king of Awadh, is deposed.
1855	Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia.
1843	Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi alla prima crociata receives its first performance in Milan, Italy.
1840	Gaetano Donizetti's opera La fille du régiment receives its first performance in Paris, France.
1826	University College London is founded as University of London.
1823	Carnival tragedy of 1823: About 110 boys are killed during a stampede at the Convent of the Minori Osservanti in Valletta, Malta.
1812	Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry is accused of "gerrymandering" for the first time.
1808	Jesse Fell burns anthracite on an open grate as an experiment in heating homes with coal.
1794	First session of United States Senate opens to the public.
1659	The assault on Copenhagen by Swedish forces is beaten back with heavy losses.
1586	Sir Francis Drake with an English force captures and occupies the Spanish colonial port of Cartagena de Indias for two months, obtaining a ransom and booty.
1584	A naval expedition led by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa founds Nombre de Jesús, the first of two short-lived Spanish settlements in the Strait of Magellan.
1534	Henry VIII of England is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.
951	Guo Wei, a court official, leads a military coup and declares himself emperor of the new Later Zhou.
660	Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.
55	The death under mysterious circumstances of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman empire, on the eve of his coming of age clears the way for Nero to become Emperor.

Famous People Born on February 11

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Year	Name
1932	Dennis Skinner, English miner and politician
1863	John F. Fitzgerald, American politician; Mayor of Boston (d. 1950)
1984	Maarten Heisen, Dutch sprinter
1987	Juanmi Callejón, Spanish footballer
1934	Mary Quant, British fashion designer
1998	Khalid, American singer and songwriter
1914	Josh White, American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1969)
1902	Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect, designed Radisson Blu Royal Hotel (d. 1971)
1956	Didier Lockwood, French violinist (d. 2018)
1944	Mike Oxley, American lawyer and politician (d. 2016)

Famous People Deaths On February 11

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Date	Name
1996	Amelia Rosselli, Italian poet and author (b. 1930)
2004	Shirley Strickland, Australian runner (b. 1925)
2016	Kevin Randleman, American mixed martial artist and wrestler (b. 1971)
2008	Tom Lantos, American lawyer and politician (b. 1928)
2000	Lord Kitchner, Trinidadian singer (b. 1922)
1948	Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1898)
1931	Charles Algernon Parsons, English-Irish engineer, invented the steam turbine (b. 1854)
2015	Roger Hanin, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1925)
2013	Rick Huxley, English bass player (b. 1940)
1868	Léon Foucault, French physicist and academic (b. 1819)