What are the important events that happened on February 11? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
February 11: Facts & Myths About This Day
February 11 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 29, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,987,200 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘tetracontadigon’ day.
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Aquarius is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,435 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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February 11 Historical Events
- 660 BC –Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.
- 1531 –Henry VIII of England is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.
- 1752 –Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the United States, is opened by Benjamin Franklin.
- 1843 –Giuseppe Verdi’s opera I Lombardi receives its first performance in Milan.
- 1873 –King Amadeus I of Spain abdicates.
- 1929 –Fascist Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
- 1939 –A Lockheed XP-38 flies from California to New York in 7 hours 2 minutes.
- 1975 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
Who were born on February 11?
- 1819 –Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American composer (d. 1890)
- 1887 –John van Melle, South African writer (d. 1953)
- 1902 –Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect (d. 1971)
- 1954 –Wesley Strick, American screenwriter
- 1959 –Deborah Meaden, British entrepreneur
- 1964 –Ken Shamrock, American martial artist
- 1982 –Neil Robertson, Australian snooker player
- 1984 –Aubrey O'Day, American singer
- 1991 –Georgia May Foote, British actress
- 1992 –Taylor Lautner, American actor
Who died on February 11?
- 821 –Saint Benedict of Aniane
- 1160 –Minamoto no Yoshitomo, Japanese general (b. 1123)
- 1762 –Johann Tobias Krebs, German composer (b. 1690)
- 1879 –Honoré Daumier, French caricaturist and painter (b. 1808)
- 1931 –Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (b. 1854)
- 1959 –Marshall Teague, American race car driver (b. 1922)
- 1975 –Richard Ratsimandrava, Malagasy soldier and statesman, assassinated (b. 1931)
- 1985 –Heinz Eric Roemheld, American composer (b. 1901)
- 1996 –Cyril Poole, English cricketer (b. 1921)
- 2005 –Jack L. Chalker, American author (b. 1944)
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