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Events
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.
244 – Emperor Gordian III is murdered by mutinous soldiers in Zaitha (Mesopotamia). A mound is raised at Carchemish in his memory.
1177 – John de Courcy's army defeats the native Dunleavey Clan in Ulster. The English establish themselves in Ulster.
1534 – Henry VIII of England is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.
1626 – Emperor Susenyos I of Ethiopia and Patriarch Afonso Mendes declare the primacy of the Roman See over the Ethiopian Church, and Roman Catholicism the state religion of Ethiopia.
1659 – The assault on Copenhagen by Swedish forces is beaten back with heavy losses.
1790 – The Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, petitions U.S. Congress for abolition of slavery.
1794 – The first session of the U.S. Senate that was open to the public is held.
1808 – Jesse Fell burns anthracite on an open grate as an experiment in heating homes with coal.
1809 – Commercial inventor Robert Fulton patents the steamboat.
1812 – Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry "gerrymanders" for the first time.
1826 – University College London is founded under the name University of London.
1826 – Swaminarayan writes the Shikshapatri, an important text within Swaminarayan Hinduism.
1840 – Gaetano Donizetti's opera La fille du régiment receives its first performance in Paris, France.
1843 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi alla prima crociata receives its first performance in Milan, Italy.
1855 – Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam
1856 – The Kingdom of Awadh is annexed by the British East India Company and Wajid Ali Shah, the king of Awadh, is imprisoned and later exiled to Calcutta.
1858 – Bernadette Soubirous's first vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lourdes, France.
1861 – American Civil War: The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
1873 – King Amadeo I of Spain abdicates.
1889 – Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted; the first National Diet convenes in 1890.
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1903 – Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria.
1906 – Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
1916 – Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on birth control.
1919 – Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany.
1925 – Phi Alpha Delta Fraternity, Inc. is founded At The College of New Jersey.
1929 – Kingdom of Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
1937 – A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers.
1938 – BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
1939 – A Lockheed P-38 Lightning flies from California to New York in 7 hours 2 minutes.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Bukit Timah is fought in Singapore.
1943 – World War II: General Dwight D. Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
1945 – World War II’s Yalta Conference ended following a week of bargaining between the major powers of the Allies, known as the “Big Three,” Joseph Stalin of Russia, Winston Churchill of Great Britain, and Franklin Roosevelt of the United States,
1953 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower refuses a clemency appeal for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
1953 – The Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel.
1953 – The Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel.
1959 – The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, which will later become South Yemen, is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom.
1964 – Greeks and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus.
1968 – Israeli–Jordanian border clashes rage.
1968 – The Memphis Sanitation Strike begins.
1971 – Eighty-seven countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union, sign the Seabed Arms Control Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters.
1973 – Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place.
1978 – Censorship: China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.
1979 – The Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
1981 – Around 100,000 US gallons (380 m3) of radioactive coolant leak into the containment building of TVA Sequoyah 1 nuclear plant in Tennessee, contaminating eight workers.
1990 – Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.
1990 – Buster Douglas, a 40:1 underdog, knocks out Mike Tyson in ten rounds at Tokyo to win boxing's world Heavyweight title and cause one of the largest upsets in sports history.
1993 – President Bill Clinton selects Janet Reno as the first female Attorney General.
1997 – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
2001 – A Dutch programmer launched the Anna Kournikova virus infecting millions of emails via a trick photo of the tennis star.
2008 – Rebel East Timorese soldiers seriously wound President José Ramos-Horta. Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado is killed in the attack.
2008 – Namdaemun, a 550-year-old gate in South Korea, was toppled by fire.
2011 – The first wave of the Egyptian revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 18 days of protests.
2014 – A military transport plane crashes in a mountainous area of Oum El Bouaghi Province in eastern Algeria, killing 77 people.
2015 – A university student was murdered as she resisted an attempted rape in Turkey, sparking nationwide protests and public outcry against harassment and violence against women.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Gilbert of Sempringham, Confessor. Semi-double.
Contemporary Western
Feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes, and its related observances
Benedict of Aniane
Blaise
Gobnait
Gregory II
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Cædmon, first recorded Christian poet in England, circa 680 CE (Anglicanism)
Fanny Crosby (Episcopal Church (USA))
Eastern Orthodox
February 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Hieromartyr Blaise, Bishop of Sebaste (316)
The Holy 7 women martyrs and 2 youth, companions of Hieromartyr
Blaise of Sebaste (316)
Hieromartyr Lucius of Adrianople (348)
Saint Theodora, wife of Emperor Theophilus the Iconoclast (867)
Saint Blaise the Hieromartyr of Acarnania (1006)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Calocerus, a disciple of St Apollinaris, whom he succeeded as Bishop
of Ravenna, Confessor (c. 130)
Martyrs of North-West Africa, the 'Guardians of the Holy Scriptures' (303)
Martyrs Saturninus, Dativus, Felix, Ampelius, Victoria and Companions (304)
Saint Lazarus of Milan, Archbishop of Milan, he defended his flock
from the Ostrogoths
Saints Priscus the Bishop, with Castrensis, Tammarus, Rosius, Heraclius,
Secundinus, Adjutor, Mark, Augustus, Elpidius, Canion and Vindonius,
priests (5th c.)
Saint Severinus, a Burgundian who became the Abbot of Agaunum
in Switzerland (507)
Saint Desideratus (Désiré), successor of St Avitus as Bishop of Clermont
in Auvergne in France (6th c.)
Saint Desiderius, Bishop of Vienne and martyr (608)
Saint Cædmon of Whitby, monk, hymnographer (c. 680)
Saint Gobnait, abbess of Ballyvourney, Cork, Ireland (7th c.)
Saint Gregory II, Pope of Rome (731)
Saint Benedict of Aniane, monastic reformer (821)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Gabriel of Pskov (Prince Vsevolod of Pskov), Prince and wonderworker
of Pskov (1138)
Venerable Demetrius, monk and wonderworker of Priluki Monastery
in Vologda (1392)
New Martyr George of Kratovo, Serbia, at Sofia, burned at the stake (1515)
Venerable Cassian the Barefoot (in the world 'Kosmas'), ascetic of
the Joseph-Volokolamsk Monastery (1532)
Other commemorations
Uncovering of the relics of Saint Zechariah, the father of St. John the Baptist (415)
Repose of Archbishop Simon of Shanghai and Peking (1933)
Traditional Western
Gilbert of Sempringham, Confessor. Semi-double.
Contemporary Western
Feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes, and its related observances
Benedict of Aniane
Blaise
Gobnait
Gregory II
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Cædmon, first recorded Christian poet in England, circa 680 CE (Anglicanism)
Fanny Crosby (Episcopal Church (USA))
Eastern Orthodox
February 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Hieromartyr Blaise, Bishop of Sebaste (316)
The Holy 7 women martyrs and 2 youth, companions of Hieromartyr
Blaise of Sebaste (316)
Hieromartyr Lucius of Adrianople (348)
Saint Theodora, wife of Emperor Theophilus the Iconoclast (867)
Saint Blaise the Hieromartyr of Acarnania (1006)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Calocerus, a disciple of St Apollinaris, whom he succeeded as Bishop
of Ravenna, Confessor (c. 130)
Martyrs of North-West Africa, the 'Guardians of the Holy Scriptures' (303)
Martyrs Saturninus, Dativus, Felix, Ampelius, Victoria and Companions (304)
Saint Lazarus of Milan, Archbishop of Milan, he defended his flock
from the Ostrogoths
Saints Priscus the Bishop, with Castrensis, Tammarus, Rosius, Heraclius,
Secundinus, Adjutor, Mark, Augustus, Elpidius, Canion and Vindonius,
priests (5th c.)
Saint Severinus, a Burgundian who became the Abbot of Agaunum
in Switzerland (507)
Saint Desideratus (Désiré), successor of St Avitus as Bishop of Clermont
in Auvergne in France (6th c.)
Saint Desiderius, Bishop of Vienne and martyr (608)
Saint Cædmon of Whitby, monk, hymnographer (c. 680)
Saint Gobnait, abbess of Ballyvourney, Cork, Ireland (7th c.)
Saint Gregory II, Pope of Rome (731)
Saint Benedict of Aniane, monastic reformer (821)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Gabriel of Pskov (Prince Vsevolod of Pskov), Prince and wonderworker
of Pskov (1138)
Venerable Demetrius, monk and wonderworker of Priluki Monastery
in Vologda (1392)
New Martyr George of Kratovo, Serbia, at Sofia, burned at the stake (1515)
Venerable Cassian the Barefoot (in the world 'Kosmas'), ascetic of
the Joseph-Volokolamsk Monastery (1532)
Other commemorations
Uncovering of the relics of Saint Zechariah, the father of St. John the Baptist (415)
Repose of Archbishop Simon of Shanghai and Peking (1933)
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