About February 11
February 11, 2024 is the 42nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 324 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 353 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 11
- 660 BC –Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.
- 244 –Emperor Gordian III is murdered by mutinous soldiers in Zaitha (Mesopotamia). A mound is raised at Carchemish in his memory.
- 1659 –The assault on Copenhagen by Swedish forces is beaten back with heavy losses.
- 1808 –Jesse Fell burns anthracite on an open grate as an experiment in heating homes with coal.
- 1812 –Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry “gerrymanders” for the first time.
- 1840 –Gaetano Donizetti’s opera La Fille du Régiment receives its first performance in Paris.
- 1843 –Giuseppe Verdi’s opera I Lombardi receives its first performance in Milan.
- 1855 –Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam
- 1903 –Anton Bruckner’s 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna.
- 1929 –Fascist Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
- 1937 –A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers Union.
- 1937 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Ox in Chinese astrology.
- 1938 –BBC Television produces the world’s first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R.U.R., that coined the term “robot”.
- 1939 –A Lockheed XP-38 flies from California to New York in 7 hours 2 minutes.
- 1942 –The first gold record is presented to Glenn Miller for “Chattanooga Choo Choo”.
- 1943 –World War II: General Dwight Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
- 1959 –The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, which will later become South Yemen, is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom.
- 1987 –The Constitution of the Philippines goes into effect.
- 1990 –Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.
- 2011 –Egyptian Revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 18 days of protests.
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