This Day in History
11 Feb 1543
Battle at Wayna Daga Ethiopian and Portuguese troops beat Muslim army
11 Feb 1659
The assault on Copenhagen by Swedish forces is beaten back with heavy losses
11 Feb 1720
Sweden & Prussia sign peace (2nd Treaty of Stockholm)
11 Feb 1766
Stamp Act declared unconstitutional in Virginia
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The world’s fourth space power
From the Kagoshima Space Center on the east coast of Japans Ohsumi Peninsula Ohsumi Japans first satellite is successfully launched into an o...
Virgin Mary appears to St. Bernadette
In southern France Marie-Bernarde Soubirous a 14-year-old French peasant girl first claims to have seen the Virgin Mary the mother of Jesus Christ and a cen...
Nelson Mandela released from prison
Nelson Mandela leader of the movement to end South African apartheid is released from prison after 27 years on February 11 1990.In 1944 Mandela a lawyer j...
Yalta Conference ends
On February 11 1945 a week of intensive bargaining by the leaders of the three major Allied powers ends in Yalta a Soviet resort town on the Black Sea. It wa...
The Channel Dash
On this day the German battleships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst as well as the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen escape from the French port of Brest and make a mad das...
Russia’s General Kaledin commits suicide
Russian General Alexei Maximovitch Kaledin a commander of Russian forces during World War I and a staunch opponent of the Bolsheviks commits suicide on this d...
Farm Gate aircraft crashes
Nine U.S. and South Vietnamese crewmen are killed in a SC-47 crash about 70 miles north of Saigon.The aircraft was part of Operation Farm Gate a mission that h...
Underdog Buster Douglas knocks out Mike Tyson
In a major upset Buster Douglas defeats Mike Tyson the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world in 10 rounds at a boxing match in Tokyo Japan.James ...
FDR and daughter Anna leave Yalta Conference
A week of secret meetings between President Franklin D. Roosevelt Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin at the Black Sea port of Yalta ends on this day in 1945 ...
Sacagawea gives birth to Pompey
Sacagawea the Shoshone Indian interpreter and guide to the Lewis and Clark expedition gives birth to her first child Jean Baptiste Charbonneau.Meriwether Lew...
Voltaire is welcomed home
On this day in 1778 some 300 people visit Voltaire following his return to Paris. Voltaire had been in exile for 28 years.Born Francois-Marie Arouet to middle-...
The Payola scandal heats up
The Payola scandal reaches a new level of public prominence and legal gravity on this day in 1960 when President Eisenhower called it an issue of public morali...
Tolkien heirs file Lord of the Rings lawsuit
In the latest of a series of legal battles involving J.R.R. Tolkiens beloved trilogy The Lord of the Rings and film adaptations made of the books sever...
Avalanches plague central Europe
On this day in 1952 a series of deadly avalanches begins across central Europe.A storm stalled over the middle of Europe the first week of February 1952 dumpi...
Birth control pioneer arrested
Emma Goldman a crusader for womens rights and social justice is arrested in New York City for lecturing and distributing materials about birth control...
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