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.
- 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.
- 1752 –Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the United States, is opened by Benjamin Franklin.
- 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.
- 1861 –American Civil War: United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
- 1889 –Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted; the first Diet of Japan convenes in 1890.
- 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.
- 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 –World War II: The Battle of Bukit Timah is fought in Singapore.
- 1964 –The Republic of China (commonly known as Taiwan) breaks off diplomatic relations with France.
- 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.
- 2032 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rat in Chinese astrology.
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