11 February In History - What Happened On This Day

According to Gregory calendar, February 11 is the day number 42 in a given year. February 11 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1250	Seventh Crusade-After three days of fighting, the Ayyubids successfully defended Al Mansurah, Egypt, from invading crusaders.
1715	Tuscara War: Tuscara and his allies signed a peace treaty with the Province of Carolina and agreed to go on a reservation near Lake Mattamusket and end the Tuscara War in New York.
1809	Robert Fulton invented the stepboat in the United States.
1826	University College London was founded as the first secular university in England.
1826	Swaminarayan wrote the Shikshapatri, a book of 212 verses thatserves as the basis of Swaminarayan Hinduism.
1847	Alva Edison was born to give the world many unique things due to her sharp mind.
1852	The first British public toilet for women opened at Bedford Street, London.
1858	Fourteen-year-old peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous reported the first of eighteen Marian apparitions in Lourdes, France, resulting in the town becoming a major site for pilgrimages by Catholics.
1874	The American inventor Thomas Elva Edison was born.
1919	Friedrich Ebert was elected the first President of the German Weimar Republic by the Weimar National Assembly.
1919	Friedrich Ebert was elected President of Germany.
1929	To help settle the 'Roman Question', Italy and the Holy See of the Roman Catholic Church signed the Lateran Treaty to establish Vatican City as an independent sovereign enclave within Italy.
1938	The BBC aired an adaptation of Karel Capek's play R.U.R., thefirst science fiction television programme ever broadcast.
1953	The Soviet Union broke diplomatic relations with Israel.
1963	American-born poet Sylvia Plath committed suicide in London.
1964	In Greek, Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot residents killed 50 people in a fight in Limassol Cyprus.
1966	Former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri died in Tashkent.
1968	Border conflict ensued between Israel and Jordan.
1968	After two black employees were killed on the job, about 1,300black sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, US, began a strike that lasted over two months.
1968	Jana Sangh founder, writer, journalist Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay was assassinated in Mughalsarai.
1970	Japan launched the first satellite Yosumi, on a Lambda-4 rocket.
1978	China lifted the ban on the works of Aristotle, Shakespeare and Dickens.
1978	The wedding of sixteen Unification Church couples was held in New York City.
1979	The Pahlavi dynasty of Iran effectively collapsed when the military declared itself 'neutral' after rebel troops overwhelmed forces loyal to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in armed street fighting.
1979	Iran's prime minister resigns, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei seizes power.
1987	British Airways was privatized and listed on the London Stock Exchange.
1990	Anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, was released from Victor Verster Prison near Paarl, South Africa.
1990	Nelson Mandela, the great South African leader, was released after a 27-year-long imprisonment.
1996	46th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 129-118 at San Antonio.
1997	Bill Paralls becomes the head coach of New York Jets.
1998	Lyrics of the song “Candle in the Wind 1997”, was auctioned for $442,500 in 1998.
2001	A Dutch computer programmer launched the Anna Kurnikova virus, affecting millions of e-mails.
2006	In a hunting visit Dick Chancy accidently shot his own friend in a hunting accident.
2008	Rebel East Timorese soldiers invaded the homes of PresidentJosé Ramos-Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão, seriously wounded the former.
2009	Morgan Tsvangirai becomes the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe after an agreement signed staking that they will share power with the president Robert Mugabe.
2010	A European Union Summit which was held in 2010 discussed about the possibility of bailing out the Greece’s economy.
2011	President Hosni Mubarak resigned in the wake of the Egyptian Revolution.
2011	President Hosni Mubarak relinquishes power to the head of the Higher Military Council of the Egyptian Armed Forces, Mohamed Hussein Tantawi.
2012	Whitney Houston, a well known American singer and actress died suddenly in Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel in California at the age of 48.
2013	An explosion in the Komi region of Russia killed 18 mine workers.
2013	The Parliament election that were held in Monaco with the Horizon Monaco Alliance that won by 50.3% of votes by Scoring 20 out of 24 seats in the country’s national council.
660	According to tradition, Emperor Jimmu founded Japan and established his capital in Yamato.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1613	The Mughal emperor Jahangir allowed the East India Company to set up a factory in Surat.
1955	Publication of newspapers started in India for the first time.
2014	The Indian Athletes were granted permission to compete at the 2014 Winter Olympics under their own nation’s flag after two years when The Indian Olympic Association was suspended when the Indian officials were found doing corruption in 2012.

Day/Observance	Level
Pt. Deendayal Upadhyaya Memorial Day	National Day
International Day of Women and Girls in Science	International Day
World Day of the Sick	International Day
World Unani Day	International Day
Japan Independence Day	National Day
Vatican City Independence Day	National Day

Birth Year	Name/Category/Country
1912	Trilok Kapoor / Actor / India
1957	Tina Ambani / Actress / India
1957	Tina Munim / Actress / India
1984	Sherlyn Chopra / Actress / India

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