{"id":3625,"date":"2024-02-11T04:43:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T23:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=3625"},"modified":"2024-02-06T16:34:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T11:04:06","slug":"history-of-11-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-11-february\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 11 February"},"content":{"rendered":"

History of 11 February<\/h2>\n

1541<\/strong> – The city of Santiago, Chile was founded.<\/p>\n

1554<\/strong> – Lady Jane Grey was beheaded after being charged with treason. She had claimed the throne of England for only nine days.<\/p>\n

1733<\/strong> – Savannah,\u00a0GA, was founded by English colonist James Oglethorpe.<\/p>\n

1870<\/strong> – In the\u00a0Utah Territory, women gained the right to vote.<\/p>\n

1878<\/strong> – Frederick W. Thayer patented the baseball catcher\u2019s mask.<\/p>\n

1879<\/strong> – The first artificial ice rink opened in North America. It was at Madison Square Garden in New York City, NY.<\/p>\n

1880<\/strong> – The National Croquet League was organized in Philadelphia,\u00a0PA.<\/p>\n

1892<\/strong> – In the\u00a0U.S.,\u00a0President Lincoln’s birthday was declared to be a national holiday.<\/p>\n

1907<\/strong> – A collision of the steamer\u00a0Larchmont<\/i>\u00a0and a schooler resulted in the death of more than 300 people. The incident occurred off New England’s Block Island.<\/p>\n

1909<\/strong> – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded.<\/p>\n

1912<\/strong> – China’s boy emperor Hsuan T’ung announced that he was abdicating, ending the Manchu Ch’ing dynasty. Subsequently, the Republic of China was established.<\/p>\n

1915<\/strong> – The cornerstone of the Lincoln Memorial was laid in Washington,\u00a0DC.<\/p>\n

1918<\/strong> – All theatres in New York City were shut down in an effort to conserve coal.<\/p>\n

1924<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Calvin Coolidge\u00a0made the first presidential political speech on the radio.<\/p>\n

1924<\/strong> – “The Eveready Hour” became radio\u2019s first sponsored network program. The National Carbon Company was the first sponsor of a network show.<\/p>\n

1934<\/strong> – The Export-Import Bank was incorporated.<\/p>\n

1940<\/strong> – Mutual Radio presented the first broadcast of the radio play “The Adventures of Superman.”<\/p>\n

1968<\/strong> – “Soul on Ice” by Eldridge Cleaver was published for the first time.<\/p>\n

1971<\/strong> – James Cash (J.C.) Penney died at the age of 95. The company closed for business for one-half day as a memorial to the company’s founder.<\/p>\n

1973<\/strong> – The State of\u00a0Ohio\u00a0went metric, becoming the first in the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0to post metric distance signs.<\/p>\n

1973<\/strong> – American prisoners of war were released for the first time during the Vietnam conflict.<\/p>\n

1985<\/strong> – Johnny Carson surprised his audience by shaving the beard he had been wearing on “The Tonight Show.”<\/p>\n

1993<\/strong> – In Liverpool, England, a 2-year-old boy, James Bulger, was lured away from his mother at a shopping mall and beaten to death. Two ten-year-old boys were responsible.<\/p>\n

1998<\/strong> – A\u00a0U.S.\u00a0federal judge declared that the presidential line-item veto was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

1999<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Clinton\u00a0was acquitted by the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Senate on two impeachment articles. The charges were perjury and obstruction of justice.<\/p>\n

2001<\/strong> – The space probe NEAR landed on the asteroid Eros. It was the first time that any craft had landed on a small space rock.<\/p>\n

2002<\/strong> – Kenneth Lay, the former Enron CEO, exercised his constitutional rights and refused to testify to the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Congress about the collapse of Enron.<\/p>\n

2002<\/strong> – The trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic began at the U.N. tribunal in The Hague. Milosevic was accused of war crimes during the Balkan wars of the 1990s.<\/p>\n

2002<\/strong> – Pakistan charged three men in connection with the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Karachi.<\/p>\n

2002<\/strong> – Princess Stephanie of Monaco and Franco Knie won a defamation-of-character lawsuit against the Swiss magazine “Facts.” The case involved a photomontage created by the magazine.<\/p>\n

2003<\/strong> – The U.N. nuclear agency declared North Korea in violation of international treaties. The complaint was sent to the Security Council.<\/p>\n

2004<\/strong> – Mattel announced that “Barbie” and “Ken” were breaking up. The dolls had met on the set of their first television commercial together in 1961.<\/p>\n

2013<\/strong> – North Korea conducted its third underground nuclear test.<\/p>\n

Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
    \n
  • 1981\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Kelly Rowland, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress<\/li>\n
  • 1982\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Christian Maggio, Italian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Natalie Dormer, English actress<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0\u013dubom\u00edra Kalinov\u00e1, Slovak biathlete<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Neil Robertson, Australian snooker player<\/li>\n
  • 1983\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Rafael van der Vaart, Dutch footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1984\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Maarten Heisen, Dutch sprinter<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Marco Marcato, Italian cyclist<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Aubrey O’Day, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Maxime Talbot, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n
  • 1985\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0William Beckett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Mike Richards, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0\u0160\u00e1rka Strachov\u00e1, Czech skier<\/li>\n
  • 1986\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Abu Omar al-Shishani, Georgian commander (d. 2016)<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Kees Luyckx, Dutch footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1987\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Luca Antonelli, Italian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Callej\u00f3n, Spanish footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Juanmi Callej\u00f3n, Spanish footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ebba Busch Thor, Swedish politician<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Brian Matusz, American baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jan Smeekens, Dutch speed skater<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ellen van Dijk, Dutch cyclist<\/li>\n
  • 1988\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Vlad Moldoveanu, Romanian basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1989\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Alexander B\u00fcttner, Dutch footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1990\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Javier Aquino, Mexican footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Hwang Chan-sung, South Korean singer, rapper, and actor<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Q’orianka Kilcher, American actress<\/li>\n
  • 1991\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Georgia May Foote, English actress<\/li>\n
  • 1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Nikola Mirotic, Spanish basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1992\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Lasse Norman Hansen, Danish track and road cyclist<\/li>\n
  • 1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Taylor Lautner, American actor, model, and martial artist<\/li>\n
  • 1993\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Ben McLemore, American basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1994\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Dansby Swanson, American baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1996\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Jonathan Tah, German footballer<\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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