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1380 Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italy, humanist 1506 Juliana van Stolberg, countess of Nassau 1535 Gregory XIV, [Nicolo Sfondrati], Roman Catholic pope (1590-91) 1568 Honor d'Urf, French writer (L'Astre) 1657 Bernard Fontenelle, France, scientist/writer (Plurality of Worlds) 1657 Bernard le Bovier sieur de Fontenelle, French philosopher (Plurality) 1764 Marie-Joseph de Chnier, French poet (Cajus Graechus) 1783 Jarena Lee, famous African 1800 William Henry Fox Talbot, English physicist/chemist 1802 Lydia Maria Child, US, author/abolitionist (Juvenile Miscellany) 1812 Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice Pres (Confederacy), died in 1883 1812 Benjamin Franklin Sands, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883 1829 William Anderson Pile, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1889 1833 Melville Weston Fuller, 8th chief justice 1839 Josiah Willard Gibbs, theoretical physicist/chemist 1840 Sanuel Dana Greene, Lt Cmdr (Union Navy), died in 1884 1846 William Fox Talbot, pioneer photographer/inventor 1847 Thomas Alva Edison, NJ, lit up your life (held 1200 patents) 1867 August W Messer, German philosopher/educator/psychologist 1869 Helene ELJ Krller-Mller, founder (Krller-Mller Museum) 1873 Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author/novelist (Pages from My Life) 1874 Elsa Beskow, [Maartman], Swedish children's book/fairy tales author 1889 John Mills, dancer (Mills Brothers) 1890 John PML de Vries, fairy tale writer 1893 Johan C P Alberts, literary (Festival) 1898 Leo Szilard, Hungary, physicist/A-bomb worker/peace activist 19-- Deena Freeman, Palo Alto Calif, actress (April-Too Close For Comfort) 19-- John Fink, Detroit Mich, actor (Dr Adam Hudson-Nancy) 19-- Stephen Gregory, NYC, actor (Chase-Young & Restless) 1900 Thomas Hitchcock Jr, great polo player (Westchester Cup 1924,27,30,39) 1904 Henry R LaBouisse, headed UNICEF (1965-79) 1904 Keith Holyoake, New Zealand PM (1960-72) 1905 Beb [Elizabeth] Vuyk, Neth/Indonesian writer (Camp diary) 1908 Sutan Takdir Alishahbana, Indonesian linguistic/author/novelist 1908 Vivian [Ernest] Fuchs, British geologist 1909 Joseph L Mankiewicz, film writer/director (Sleuth) 1909 Max Baer, Omaha Nebraska, heavyweight boxing champ (1934-35) 1912 Roy Fuller, England, poet/novelist (Lost Season) 1912 Rudolf Firkusny, Napajedla Czechoslovakia, pianist (Julliard) 1914 Matt Dennis, Seattle Wash, singer (Matt Dennis Show) 1914 Winand J Borgerhoff Mulder, court judge of Amsterdam 1917 Sidney Sheldon, novelist (1947 Academy Award, 1959 Tony, Bloodline) 1919 Gretchen Fraser, Tacoma Wash, slalom skier (Olympic-gold-1948) 1920 Billy Halop, NYC, actor (Bert Munson-All in the Family) 1920 Daniel F[rancis] Galouye, US, sci-fi author (Dark Universe, Last Leap) 1920 Faroek I, last King of Egypt (1936-52) 1921 Eva Gabor, Budapest Hungary, actress (Lisa-Green Acres, Gigi) 1921 Lloyd Bentsen, (Sen-D-TX, 1971- )/1989 Dem VP nominee) 1922 Leslie Nielsen, Regina Sask, actor (Forbidden Planet, Naked Gun) 1925 Kim Stanley, New Mexico, actress (Frances, Right Stuff) 1925 Virginia E Johnson, doctor/sexologist (Masters & Johnson) 1926 Paul Bocuse, France, great chef (Legion of Honor) 1928 Conrad Janis, NYC, actor (Mork & Mindy, Quark, Bonino) 1930 Alevtina Koltschina, USSR, cross coutry relay skier (Oly-gold-1960) 1932 Jerome Lowenthal, Phila, pianist/prof (Jerusalem Academy of Music) 1934 Mary Quant, Kent England, fashion designer (Chelsea Look, Mod Look) 1934 Tina Louise, NYC, actress (Ginger-Gilligan's Island, Julie-Dallas) 1935 Gene Vincent, rock guitarist/vocalist (Be-Bop-A-Lula) 1936 Burt Reynolds, Waycross Ga, actor (Dan August, Gunsmoke, End) 1937 Louis Boer, playwright 1938 Boris Majorov, USSR, ice hockey (Olympic-gold-1964) 1938 Gen Manuel Antonio Noriega, Panamanian dictator (-1990) 1938 Yevgeniy Majorov, USSR, ice hockey (Olympic-gold-1964) 1939 Gerry Goffin, Queens NY, rock lyricist (married Carole King) 1939 Jane [Hyatt] Yolen, US, sci-fi author (Spider Jane, Heart's Blood) 1940 Calvin Fowler, Pitts, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1968) 1941 Sergio Mendes, jazz/pop musician (Brazil '66/'77/'88) 1942 Archie, comic book character 1944 Michael G Oxley, (Rep-R-OH, 1981- ) 1949 Charlie Hargett, rocker (Blackfoot) 1950 Earnest Jim Istook, (Rep-R-Oklahoma) 1953 Philip Anglim, SF Calif, actor (Dane-Thorn Birds) 1953 Stephen D Thorne, Frankfurt-on-Main, German FR, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut 1954 Catherine Hickland, actress (Capitol, Star Trek IV) 1956 Kathleen Beller, Queens NY, actress (Ft Apache the Bronx) 196- Bianca Ferguson, actress (Felicia Jones-General Hospital) 1961 Carey Lowell, NYC, actress (Guardian, Dangerously Close) 1961 Mary Docter, US, 3000m speed skater (Olympics-1980, 84, 88, 92) 1962 Scott Kolden, Torrance Calif, actor (Scott-Me & the Champ) 1969 Shannon Long, Gladstone Australia, playmate (Oct, 1988) 1976 Brice Beckham, Long Beach Calif, actor (Wesley-Mr Belvedare) 1980 Matthew Lawrence, Montgomery Pa, actor (Matthew-Gimme a Break) 1980 Natasha Bobo, Watsonville Calif, actress (Sally-Together We Stand) Back to GREGSITE Passings for February 11731 Gregory II, Greek-Syrian Pope, dies 821 Benedict van Aniane, saint, dies 824 Paschal I, Italian Pope (817-24), dies 867 Theodora, the saint, Emperoress of Byzantine, dies 1141 Hugo van St-Victor, philosopher/theologist/mystic, dies 1554 Lady Jane Grey, deposed Queen of England, beheaded after 9 day rule 1650 Ren Descartes, philosopher "I think therefore I am", stops thinking 1685 David Teniers III, Flemish painter, dies at 46 1841 J H Ferdinand Olivier, German painter, dies 1868 Jean B L Foucault, French physicist (sway proof), dies 1868 Lon Foucault, discovers 1st physical proof of Earth's rotation, dies 1879 Willem J Van Zeggelen, author/novelist/writer, dies at 67 1911 Albert von Rothschild, baron/Austrian banker, dies 1922 Gerardus J P J Bolland, philospher (Bolland Society), dies at 67 1931 Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine), dies 1941 Rudolf Hilferding, German economist/Min of Finance (SPD), suicide 1961 Eduard R Verkade, actor/director, dies at 82 1961 Patrice Lumumba, 1st premier Congo, murdered 1963 Sylvia Plath, poet/novelist (Ariel), kills herself, in London at 30 1968 Howard Lindsay, US playwright (State of the Union), dies at 78 1971 Whitney Young Jr, National Urban League director, drowns in Nigeria 1972 John Wils, architect (Olympian Stadium, Amsterdam), dies at 80 1976 Lee J Cobb, actor (12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront), dies at 64 1978 James B Conant, headmaster (Harvard University), dies at 84 1982 Eleanor Powell, tap dancer/wife of Glenn Ford, dies at 69 of cancer 1982 Takashi Shimura, Japans actor (Rashomon, 7 Samurais), dies 1982 Victor Jory, Alaskan actor (Kings Row, Manhunt), dies at 79 1985 Heinz Eric Roemheld, composer, dies of pneumonia at 83 1985 Henry Hathaway, director/actor, dies of a heart attack at 86 1986 Frank [Patrick] Herbert, sci-fi author (Dune), dies at 65 1991 Oscar Nitzchke, German architect (Alcoa building), dies 1993 Oksana Kostina, Russian gymnist, dies in an auto accident Back to GREGSITE Holidays for February 11[Bangladesh] Shaheed Day [Cameroon] Youth Day [Flint Mich] White Shirt Day-end of blue collar sit down strike (1907) [Florida] Gasparilla Carnival-rememberance of pirates [Ft Myers, Florida] Pageant of Light (1884) [Italy] Giorno della Conciliazione Day (1929) [Japan] Empire Day [Japan] Foundation Day (660 BC)-accession of Emperor Jimmu [Liberia] Armed Forces Day [Mauritius] Chinese Spring Festival [US] National Inventors Day [World] Boy Scouts Day (1910) Back to GREGSITE Interest events for February 11[Christian] Feast of St Adolph [Methodist] Race Relations Sunday (2nd Sunday in February) [Phil] Our Lady's Miraculous Apparitians of St Bernadette Soubirous [Unification Church] True parents' birthday 731 [RC] Feast of St Gregory II, 89th Roman Catholic pope (715-31) 867 [Christian] Commemoration of St Theodora, Byzantine empress 1858 [RC] Memorial of Apparition of Virgin at Lourdes (opt) 1997 [Christian] Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras) 1998 [Jewish] Tu B'Shevat-Arbor Day (Shevat 15, 5758 AM) Back to GREGSITE Special events for February 11 [Ancient Rome] a d iij Id Feb 385 Oldest Pope elected; Siricius-bishop of Tarragona 660 -BC- Traditional founding of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno 731 St Gregory II ends his reign as Catholic Pope 824 St Paschal I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1531 Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of Church in England 1573 Francis Drake sees the Pacific 1575 King Frederick of Denmark offers island of Hveen to Tycho Brahe 1794 1st session of US Senate open to the public 1808 Anthracite coal 1st burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre, Pa 1809 Robert Fulton patents steamboat 1812 Mass Gov Gerry signs a redistricting bill-1st "gerrymander 1837 American Physiological Society organizes in Boston 1840 Opera "La Fille du Regiment" is produced (Paris) 1843 Opera "I Lombardi" is produced (Milan) 1854 Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time 1858 1st apparition of Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes 1861 President-elect Lincoln takes train to Washington 1873 Spanish Cortes fires king Amadeus I 1878 1st US bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms 1878 1st weekly Weather report published 1889 Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890 1893 A Charlois discovers asteroid #357 Ninina 1894 F Courty discovers asteroid #384 Burdigala 1898 Owen Smith of NC, AME Zion minister, named minister to Liberia 1899 -15ø F (-26ø C), Washington, DC (district record) 1899 -61ø F, Montana 1902 Demonstration for human rights in Brussel 1905 James Blackstone, Seattle, bowls 299«-last pin breaks but stands 1907 A Kopff discovers asteroids #625 Xenia & #626 Notburga 1907 Passenger ship Larchmont sinks by Block Island, 322 1912 A Massinger discovers asteroid #727 Nipponia 1916 Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control 1919 Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected president of Germany 1919 German republican govt takes power 1921 M Wolf discovers asteroid #946 Poesia 1922 US intervention army leaves Honduras 1926 Tokelau (Union) islands in south Pacific transferres to New Zealand 1927 B Jekhovsky discovers asteroid #1181 Lilith 1927 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1111 Reinmuthia 1928 2nd Winter Olympic games opens in St Moritz, Switzerland 1929 Mussolini ends treaties of Lateranen Concord with Pope Pius 1929 Vatican City (world's smallest country) made an enclave of Rome 1931 L Volta discovers asteroid #1191 Alfaterna 1932 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1220 Crocus 1935 -11ø F (-24ø C), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low) 1935 1st US airplane flight with auto slung beneath fuselage, NY 1936 Pumping begins to build Treasure Island in SF Bay 1937 44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint, Mich ends 1941 Lt-Gen Erwin Garbage arrives in Tripoli 1942 "Archie" comic book debuts 1942 L Oterma discovers asteroid #2827 Vellamo 1945 1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey, CA 1948 John Costello follows Eamon Da Valera as premier of Ireland 1949 Willie Pep is 1st 126lb to regain boxing championship 1950 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1598 Paloque 1951 Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana) 1953 Pres Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg 1957 KUMV TV channel 8 in Williston, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting 1957 NHL Players Association forms (NYC) 1958 1st flight with black stewardess, RC Taylor, Ithaca NY 1958 Marshal Tsjen Ji succeeds Tsjoe En-lai as Min of Foreign affairs 1958 WTVC TV channel 9 in Chattanooga, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting 1960 Jack Paar walks off his TV show 1961 Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black 1962 Beatles record "Please, Please Me" 1963 Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album 1963 CIA Domestic Operations Division created (pretty scary!) 1964 Beatles 1st live appearance in US; Washington DC Coliseum 1964 Greek & Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus 1964 Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France 1965 Beatle Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox 1968 Jeffrey Kramer survives 76-m jump, Wash Bridge, Hudson River NY 1968 Madison Square Garden III closes MSG IV opens 1968 Peggy Fleming wins Olympic figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France 1969 Diana Crump becomes 1st US woman jockey to ride against men, Hialelah 1971 Montreal Candien John Believau scores his 500th NHL goal 1971 US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons 1973 1st sub 17-min 1,500m female freestyle swim (Shane Gould 16m56.9s) 1973 Philadelphia 76ers lose their 20th NBA game in a row 1974 Titan-Centaur test launch fails 1975 Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for Conservative leadership 1976 Clifford Alexander Jr confirmed as 1st black secretary of Army 1977 20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean) 1977 Clifford Alexander Jr is 1st Black Secretary of State, confirmed 1977 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #3578 1978 16 Unification church couples wed in NYC 1978 25th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin 1978 China lifts a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare, & Dickens 1979 "They are Playing our Song" opens on Broadway 1979 43 million watch "Elvis!" on ABC 1980 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2542 Calpurnia 1983 4th largest snowfall in NYC history (18"(46 cm)) 1983 E Bowell disc asteroid 2875 Lagerkvist, 3116 Goodricke & 3594 Scotti 1983 N G Thomas discovers asteroid #3117 Niepce 1983 T Seki discovers asteroid #3150 Tosa 1984 10th space shuttle mission (41-B)-Challenger 4-returns to Earth 1984 Wayne Gretsky sets NHL short handed season scoring record at 11 1986 Rights activist Anatoly Scharansky released by USSR, leaves country 1987 Philippines constitution goes into effect 1988 Anthony M Kennedy appointed to Supreme Court 1989 Barbara Harris consecrated 1st female bishop (Episcoplian) 1990 40th NBA All-Star Game in Miami, East beats West 130-113 1990 James "Buster" Douglas KOs Mike Tyson to win heavyweight boxing crown 1990 Nelson Mandela (political prisoner-27 years) freed in South Africa 1991 UNPO, Unrepresented Nations & People Org forms in Hague Neth 1992 F-16 jet crashes at Hengelose (No casualities) 1993 Irina Privalova runs world record 60m indoor (6.92 secs) Back to GREGSITE Facts for February 1142nd day of the year with 323 days left (Numerology = 4) 1899 -2øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC 1960 65øF highest temperature for this date in NYC Back to GREGSITE Songs released on February 1102/11/43 --- Don't Get Around Much Anymore --- Ink Spots 02/11/67 --- My Cup Runneth Over --- Ames, Ed 02/11/78 --- Night Fever --- Bee Gees 02/11/78 --- Our Love --- Cole, Natalie 02/11/78 --- Jack & Jill --- Parker Jr., Ray 02/11/84 --- Thriller --- Jackson, Michael 02/11/84 --- Footloose --- Loggins, Kenny 02/11/84 --- Automatic --- Pointer Sisters 02/11/84 --- Somebody's Watching Me --- Rockwell 02/11/89 --- Eternal Flame --- Bangles 02/11/89 --- Dreamin' --- Williams, 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