The History Of February 11

2010	A European Union summit discusses the possibility of bailing out Greece's economy
2009	Morgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe after agreeing to share power with President Robert Mugabe
2006	Dick Cheney accidentally shoots friend in a hunting accident
1998	KVBC-FM (Las Vegas) offers Monica Lewinsky $5M for interview
1998	Lyrics to "Candle in the Wind 1997," auctioned for $442,500
1997	Bill Parcells becomes head coach of New York Jets
1997	STS-82 (Discovery 22) launches
1996	46th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 129-118 at San Antonio
1995	Danyon Loader swims world record 400m freestyle (340.46)
1995	Mark Foster swims world record 50m butterfly (23.55 sec)
1995	Sandra Volker swims European record 50m backstroke (27.67 sec)
1995	Space shuttle STS-63 (Discovery 19), lands
1995	U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
1995	West Indies score 5-660 against New Zealand
1994	Lu Parker, (South Carolina), crowned 43rd Miss USA
1994	Space shuttle STS-60 (Discovery 18), lands
1993	Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester, New York on WRQI
1993	Irina Privalova runs world record 60m indoor (6.92 seconds)
1993	Janet Reno selected by Clinton as U.S. Attorney General
1992	F-16 jet crashes at residential district of Hengelo Netherlands (No deaths)
1992	Michael Johnson runs indoor world record 400m (44.97 sec)
1991	UNPO, Unrepresented Nations and People Org forms in Hague
1990	40th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 130-113 at Miami
1990	James "Buster" Douglas KOs Mike Tyson to win heavyweight boxing crown
1990	Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, freed in South Africa
1990	U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
1989	Barbara Clementine Harris consecrated 1st female bishop (Episcopalian)
1989	U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
1988	Anthony M. Kennedy appointed to Supreme Court
1987	British Airways begins trading stocks
1987	England beat Australia 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
1987	Philippines constitution goes into effect
1987	U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986	Activist Anatoly Scharansky released by U.S.S.R., leaves country
1986	Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
1986	Iran begins Fajr-8 offensive against Iraq
1985	Jordan king Hussein and PLO leader Arafat sign accord
1985	Kent Hrbek signs 5-year, $6 million contract with Minnesota Twins
1985	Wasim Akram takes 10 wickets in his 2nd Test Cricket, New Zealand still wins
1984	10th space shuttle mission (41-B)-Challenger 4-returns to Earth
1984	Wayne Gretzky sets NHL short handed season scoring record at 11
1983	"Weird Al" Yankovic records "Ricky" and "Buckingham Blues" debut LP
1983	4th largest snowfall in New York City history (18"(46 cm))
1982	Ozzie Smith for Garry Templeton trade finally goes through
1981	Australia all out 83 vs. India at MCG chasing 143 to win
1981	Polish premier Jozef Pinkowski replaced by Wojciech Jaruzelski
1979	"They're Playing Our Song" opens at Imperial New York City for 1082 performances
1979	43 million watch "Elvis!" on ABC
1979	Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
1979	Iran's premier Bakhtiar resigns, Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power
1979	Musical "They're Playing Our Song," premieres in New York City
1978	16 Unification church couples wed in New York City
1978	25th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin
1978	China lifts a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare, and Dickens
1978	EOKA organization disbands in Cyprus
1977	20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean)
1976	Clifford Alexander, Jr. confirmed as 1st black secretary of Army
1975	Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for Conservative leadership
1974	Dick Woodson is 1st of 48 to invoke baseball's new arbitration rule
1974	Titan-Centaur Test launch fails
1974	1st baseball arbitration Twins pitcher Dick Woodson seeking $29,000 wins, Twins offered $23,000
1973	1st one-day international for Pakistan and New Zealand
1973	1st sub 17-minute 1,500m female free style swim (Shane Gould 16m56.9s)
1973	Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Naples-Lely Golf Classic
1973	Philadelphia 76ers lose their 20th NBA game in a row
1971	Montreal Canadien John Believau scores his 500th NHL goal
1971	U.S., U.K., U.S.S.R., others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons
1970	26.37 cm (10.38") of rainfall, Mount Washington, New Hampshire (state 24-hour rec)
1970	Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite, Osumi, in orbit
1970	John Lennon pays 1,344 pounds fine for 96 protesting South African rugby team playing in Scotland
1969	Diana Crump becomes 1st U.S. woman jockey to ride against men, Hialelah
1969	Dorey Funk, Jr. beats Gene Kiniski in Tampa, to become NWA champ
1968	Israeli-Jordan border fight
1968	Jeffrey Kramer survives 76-m jump, Washington Bridge, Hudson River New York
1968	Madison Square Garden III closes MSG IV opens (New York City)
1966	San Francisco Giant Willie Mays signs highest contract, $130,000 per year
1965	Beatle Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox
1965	Braves propose to pay 5 cents from each ticket to bring a new team to Milwaukee
1964	Beatles 1st live appearance in U.S.; Washington D.C. Coliseum
1964	Greek and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus
1964	Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France
1963	Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album
1963	CIA Domestic Operations Division created
1962	Beatles record "Please, Please Me"
1961	Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black
1961	Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem
1960	Jack Paar walks off his TV show
1959	Vinoo Mankad ends his final Test Cricket (v WI at Delhi)
1958	1st flight with black stewardess, Ruth Carol Taylor, Ithaca New York
1958	Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Minister of Foreign affairs
1958	WTVC TV channel 9 in Chattanooga, Tennessee (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957	KUMV TV channel 8 in Williston, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957	NHL Players Association forms (New York City), Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected president
1954	6th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Donald O'Connor and Eve Arden wins
1953	"Hazel Flagg" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 190 performances
1953	J. Styne/B. Hilliard's musical "Hazel Flagg," premieres in New York City
1953	President Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple
1953	Russia breaks diplomatic relations with Israel
1951	Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana)
1950	"Rag Mop" by The Ames Brothers hit #1
1949	Willie Pep recaptures world featherweight boxing title
1948	Billy Griffith scores cricket century on debut England vs. WI, out for 140
1948	John Costello follows Eamon Da Valera as premier of Ireland
1948	Test Cricket debut of Frank Worrell, vs. England Port-of-Spain
1945	1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey, California
1945	Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill and Stalin
1944	German troops reconquer Aprilia Italy
1944	U-424 sunk off Ireland
1943	General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe
1943	Transport nr 47 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1942	"Archie" comic book debuts
1941	Lieutenant-general Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli
1941	Sicherheitsdienst complains about Dutch anti German sentiments
1938	Steve Casey beats Lou Thesz in Boston, to become wrestling champ
1937	44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint, Michigan ends
1936	Pumping begins to build Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay
1935	-11 degrees F (-24 degrees C), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low)
1935	1st U.S. airplane flight with auto slung beneath fuselage, New York
1932	73 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in February
1929	Eugene O'Neill's "Dynamo," premieres in New York City
1929	Vatican City, world's smallest country, made an enclave of Rome
1928	2nd Winter Olympic games opens in St. Moritz, Switzerland
1927	U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran
1927	U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles
1926	Tokelau (Union) Islands in South Pacific transfers to New Zealand
1922	"April Showers" by Al Jolson hits #1
1922	U.S. intervention army leaves Honduras
1921	Ambassador Theater opens at 215 W 49th St. New York City
1919	Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected president of Germany
1916	Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its 1st concert
1916	Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control
1908	Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory vs England
1908	Heemskerk's government begins in Holland
1907	De Master's Dutch government resigns
1905	James Blackstone, Seattle, bowls 299 -last pin breaks but stands
1905	Pope Pius X publishes encyclical Vehementer nos
1903	Anton Bruckner's 9th Symfonie premieres in Vienna
1902	Police beats up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels
1899	-15 degrees F (-26 degrees C), Washington, D.C. (district record)
1899	-61 degrees F, Montana (record low temperature)
1898	Owen Smith of NC, AME Zion minister, named minister to Liberia
1897	White Rose Mission opens on East 97th Street, New York City
1896	Oscar Wildes "Salom" premieres in Paris
1895	-17 degrees F (-27.2 degrees C) in Braemar, Grampian (UK record)
1895	Georgetown became part of Washington D.C.
1889	Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890
1878	1st U.S. bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms
1878	1st weekly Weather report published in UK
1873	Spanish Cortes fires king Amadeus I
1861	President-elect Lincoln takes train from Spingfield Illinois to Washington D.C.
1861	U.S. House unanimously passes resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state
1858	1st apparition of Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes France
1854	Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time
1852	1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London)
1851	1st cricket 1st-class game in Australia, Tasmania vs. Vic, Launceston
1843	Opera "I Lombardi," premieres in Milan
1840	Gaetano Donizetti's Opera "La Fille du Regiment," premieres in Paris
1837	American Physiological Society organizes in Boston
1826	London University founded
1814	Norway's independence proclaimed
1812	Massachusetts Governor Gerry signs a redistricting bill-1st "gerrymander"
1811	President Madison prohibits trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years
1810	Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria
1809	Robert Fulton patents steamboat
1808	Anthracite coal 1st burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre, Pa
1794	1st session of U.S. Senate open to the public
1793	Prussian troops occupy Venlo, Netherlands
1790	Society of Friends petitions Congress for abolition of slavery
1768	Samuel Adams letter, circulates around American colonies, opposing Townshend Act taxes
1766	Stamp Act declared unconstitutional in Virginia
1752	Pennsylvania Hospital, the 1st hospital in the U.S., opened
1720	Sweden and Prussia sign peace (2nd Treaty of Stockholm)
1638	Dutch countess Louise of Solms marries earl John of Brederode
1575	King Frederick of Denmark offers island of Hveen to Tycho Brahe
1573	1st European, Francis Drake sees the Pacific (from Panama)
1543	Battle at Wayna Daga: Ethiopian/Portugese troops beat Moslem army
1543	Karel/Henry VIII sign anti-French covenant
1531	Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of Church in England
824	St. Paschal I ends his reign as Catholic Pope Thanks to Brainhistory.com
385	Oldest Pope elected; Siricius-bishop of Tarragona