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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 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) European 112 Day (European Union) [320] Armed Forces Day (Liberia) [321] Evelio Javier Day (Panay Island, the Philippines) [322] Feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes (Catholic Church), and its related observance [1] World Day of the Sick (Roman Catholic Church) [323] Inventors' Day (United States) [324]
1033 – An assembly at the Abbey of Payerne crowned Conrad II (depicted) king of Burgundy.; 1438 – Nine leaders of the Transylvanian peasant revolt were executed at Torda.; 1848 – Mexican–American War: During the American occupation of Mexico City, diplomats signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the war and had Mexico cede 1.36 million square kilometres (530,000 sq mi) of ...
Sylvia Plath (/ p l æ θ /; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet and author.She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963.
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; 13 February 1910 – William Shockley's birthday
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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:
November 22 is the 326th day of ... journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay "To the People ...