SomeFacts | February 11

On this day - February 11

Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.

55 — The death under mysterious circumstances of Tiberius Claudius ...

951 — Guo Wei, a court official, leads a military coup and declares ...

1144 — Robert of Chester completes his translation from Arabic to ...

1534 — At the Convocation of Canterbury, the Catholic bishops ...

1584 — A naval expedition led by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa founds ...

1586 — Sir Francis Drake with an English force captures and occupies ...

1659 — The assault on Copenhagen by Swedish forces is beaten back ...

1794 — First session of United States Senate opens to the public.

1808 — Jesse Fell burns anthracite on an open grate as an experiment ...

1812 — Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry is accused of ...

1823 — Carnival tragedy of 1823: About 110 boys are killed during a ...

1826 — University College London is founded as University of London.

1840 — Gaetano Donizetti's opera La fille du régiment receives ...

1843 — Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi alla prima crociata ...

1855 — Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia.

1856 — The Kingdom of Awadh is annexed by the British East India ...

1858 — Bernadette Soubirous's first vision of the Blessed Virgin ...

1861 — American Civil War: The United States House of Representatives ...

1873 — King Amadeo I of Spain abdicates, triggering the proclamation ...

1889 — The Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted.

1903 — Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first ...

1906 — Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.

1919 — Friedrich Ebert (SPD) is elected President of Germany.

1929 — The Kingdom of Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.

1933 — LAPD Red Squad raid on John Reed Club art show in the U.S. ...

1937 — The Flint sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes ...

1938 — BBC Television produces the world's first ever science ...

1942 — World War II: Second day of the Battle of Bukit Timah is ...

1946 — The New Testament of the Revised Standard Version of the ...

1953 — Israeli-Soviet relations are severed.

1953 — Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower denies all ...

1959 — The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South is created as a ...

1963 — The Beatles record their first album, Please Please Me.

1970 — Japan launches Ohsumi, becoming the fourth nation to put an ...

1971 — Cold War: The Seabed Arms Control Treaty opens for signature, ...

1978 — Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314 crashes at the ...

1979 — The Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic theocracy under ...

1990 — Buster Douglas, a 42:1 underdog, knocks out Mike Tyson in ten ...

1990 — Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside ...

1997 — Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service ...

1999 — Pluto crosses Neptune's orbit, ending a nearly 20-year ...

2000 — Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-99 to conduct the ...

2001 — A Dutch programmer launches the Anna Kournikova virus ...

2008 — Rebel East Timorese soldiers seriously wound President José ...

2011 — Arab Spring: The first wave of the Egyptian revolution ...

2013 — Militants claiming to be from the Sultanate of Sulu invade ...

2013 — The Vatican confirms that Pope Benedict XVI will resign the ...

2014 — A military transport plane crashes in a mountainous area of ...

2015 — The European Space Agency's Intermediate eXperimental ...

2015 — A university student is murdered as she resists an attempted ...

2016 — A man shoots seven people dead at an education center in Jizan ...

2017 — North Korea test fires a ballistic missile across the Sea of ...

2018 — Saratov Airlines Flight 703 crashes near Moscow, Russia with ...

2020 — COVID-19 pandemic: The World Health Organization officially ...

2024 — 2024 Finnish presidential election: Alexander Stubb is elected ...