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This is a list of selected February 11 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit.
February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 323 days remain until the end of the year (324 in leap years). Events. ... killing 77 people.
1657 – Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (d. 1757) (pictured); 1800 – William Henry Fox Talbot, English photographer (d. 1877); 1847 – Thomas Edison, American inventor (d.
1753 - February 17 is followed by March 1 as Sweden moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar; 1792 - Birth of Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (d. 1876) 1874 - Death of Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician (b. 1796) 1888 - Birth of Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1969)
Famous people born on Leap Day. Leap Day babies make up a small percentage of the population, but several notable people have been born on Feb. 29 in even-numbered years. Here are a few notable names:
15 February 1786 – Cat's Eye Nebula discovered; 18 February 1838 – Ernst Mach's birthday; 11 February 1847 – Thomas Edison's birthday; 23 February 1855 – Carl Friedrich Gauss's death; 22 February 1875 – Heinrich Hertz's birthday; 28 February 1901 – Linus Pauling's birthday; 18 February 1967 – J. Robert Oppenheimer's death
Birthdays on non-Leap Years were actually celebrated with more fanfare than the years featuring a Feb. 29. Cole said her family, her late father specifically, made a two-day event out of her birthday.
1939 – In one of the most famous errors in lexicography, the erroneous word "dord" was discovered in Webster's New International Dictionary by an editor. 1974 – The British election ended in a hung parliament after the Liberal Party, under Jeremy Thorpe, achieved their highest ever number of votes.