About February 11
February 11, 2025 is the 42nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 323 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 371 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 11
- 55 –Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman Emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome. This clears the way for Nero to become Emperor.
- 1531 –Henry VIII of England is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.
- 1659 –The assault on Copenhagen by Swedish forces is beaten back with heavy losses.
- 1794 –First session of United States Senate open to the public.
- 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.
- 1826 –University College London is founded under the name University of London.
- 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
- 1861 –American Civil War: United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
- 1903 –Anton Bruckner’s 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna.
- 1937 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Ox in Chinese astrology.
- 1942 –The first gold record is presented to Glenn Miller for “Chattanooga Choo Choo”.
- 1953 –President Dwight Eisenhower refuses a clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
- 1978 –Censorship: the People’s Republic of China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.
- 1981 –100000 USgal of radioactive coolant leak into the containment building of TVA Sequoyah 1 nuclear plant in Tennessee, contaminating 8 workers.
- 1987 –The Constitution of the Philippines goes into effect.
- 1997 –Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
- 2008 –Rebel East Timorese soldiers seriously wound President José Ramos-Horta. Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado is killed in the attack.
- 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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