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Birthday February 11, 1833 Melville Weston Fuller, 8th chief justice & U.S. Supreme Court |
Birthday February 11, 1839 J. Willard Gibbs, theoretical physicist & chemist |
Birthday February 11, 1847 Thomas Alva Edison, NJ lit up your life (held 1200 patents) |
Birthday February 11, 1898 Leo Szilard, Hungarian physicist & A-bomb worker & peace activist |
Birthday February 11, 1904 Sir Keith Holyoake, New Zealand prime minister (1960-72) |
Birthday February 11, 1909 Joseph L. Mankiewicz, film writer & director |
Birthday February 11, 1909 Max Baer, boxer |
Birthday February 11, 1921 Lloyd Bentsen ,(D) U.S. senator from Texas |
Birthday February 11, 1921 Eva Gabor, Budapest & Actress (Green Acres) |
Birthday February 11, 1925 Dr Virginia E. Johnson, sexologist (of Masters & Johnson) |
Birthday February 11, 1925 Kim Stanley, Actress in New Mexico |
Birthday February 11, 1934 Mary Quant, in England |
Birthday February 11, 1934 Tina Louise, NYC & Actress (Gilligan's Island) |
Birthday February 11, 1936 Burt Reynolds, Actor (Deliverance & The End & Smokey & the Bandit) |
Birthday February 11, 1941 Sergio Mendes, jazz musician (Brazil 66 & 77 & 88) |
History February 11, 0660 Traditional founding of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno |
History February 11, 1575 King Frederick of Denmark offers island of Hveen to Tycho Brahe |
History February 11, 1650 Rene Descartes - "I think therefore I am" - dies |
History February 11, 1776 Georgia's governor escapes imprisonment |
History February 11, 1778 Voltaire is welcomed home |
History February 11, 1805 Sacagawea gives birth to Pompey |
History February 11, 1854 Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time |
History February 11, 1858 Virgin Mary appears to St. Bernadette |
History February 11, 1861 Lincoln leaves Springfield |
History February 11, 1868 Leon Foucault discovers 1st physical proof of earth's rotation - dies |
History February 11, 1916 Birth control pioneer arrested |
History February 11, 1918 Russia's General Kaledin commits suicide |
History February 11, 1929 Vatican City (world's Smallest Country) is made an enclave of Rome |
History February 11, 1936 Pumping begins to build Treasure Island |
History February 11, 1937 44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint - Mich. ends |
History February 11, 1937 GM signs first autoworkers contract |
History February 11, 1942 The Channel Dash |
History February 11, 1945 FDR and daughter Anna leave Yalta Conference |
History February 11, 1945 Yalta Conference ends |
History February 11, 1952 Avalanches plague central Europe |
History February 11, 1956 Burgess and Maclean resurface |
History February 11, 1958 1st flight with Negro stewardess - RC Taylor - Ithaca NY |
History February 11, 1960 Jack Paar walks off his show |
History February 11, 1960 The Payola scandal heats up |
History February 11, 1962 Farm Gate aircraft crashes |
History February 11, 1968 Madison Square Garden III closes MSG IV opens |
History February 11, 1970 The world's fourth space power |
History February 11, 1970 Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite (Osumi) in orbit |
History February 11, 1978 25th hat trick in Islander history - Denis Potvin |
History February 11, 1984 Tenth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 4 returns to Earth |
History February 11, 1990 Underdog Buster Douglas knocks out Mike Tyson |
History February 11, 2008 Tolkien heirs file Lord of the Rings lawsuit |
History February 11, 2012 Pop superstar Whitney Houston dies at age 48 |