Today in History - February 11
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660BC Mythical
date of the ascension of Japan's first emperor, Jimmu Tenno.
(HN, 2/11/97)(Jap. Enc., BLDM, p. 214)
641 Feb 11, Heraclius (~65),
emperor of Byzantium (610-641), died.
(MC, 2/11/02)
731 Feb 11, Gregory II,
Greek-Syrian Pope, died.
(MC, 2/11/02)
867 Feb 11, Theodora, the Saint,
beauty queen, Byzantine Empress, died.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1380 Feb 11, Gianfrancesco Poggio
Bracciolini, Italian humanist, was born.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1465 Feb 11, Elizabeth of York,
consort of King Henry VII, was born in London.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1503 Feb 11, Elizabeth of York,
Consort of King Henry VII, died on 38th birthday.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1531 Feb 11, Henry VIII was
recognized as the supreme head of the Church of England.
(HN, 2/11/97)
1535 Feb 11, Gregory XIV, Roman
Catholic Pope was born.
(HN, 2/11/97)
1573 Feb 11, Sir Francis Drake 1st
saw the Pacific Ocean from Panama.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1650 Feb 11, Rene Descartes
(b.1596), French mathematician and philosopher: "I think therefore I
am", died in Stockholm. In 1666 his bones were exhumed for transfer to
France. In 2008 Russell Shorto authored “Descartes’ Bones: A Skeletal
History of the conflict Between Faith and Reason.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes)(SFC, 11/5/08, p.E3)
1657 Feb 11, Bernard Fontenelle,
French scientist, writer (Plurality of Worlds), was born.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1685 Feb 11, David Teniers III
(46), Flemish painter, died.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1752 Feb 11, Pennsylvania
Hospital, the 1st hospital in the US, opened.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1764 Feb 11, Marie-Joseph de
Chenier, French poet (Cajus Graechus), was born.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1766 Feb 11, The Stamp Act was
declared unconstitutional in Virginia.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1768 Feb 11, A Samuel Adams
letter, opposing Townshend Act taxes, was circulated among the American
colonies.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1790 Feb 11, The first petition to
Congress for emancipation of the slaves was made by the Society of
Friends.
(HNQ, 1/11/99)
1794 Feb 11, A session of US
Senate was 1st opened to the public.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1800 Feb 11, William Henry Fox
Talbot (d.1877), British inventor and pioneer in instantaneous
photography, was born.
(AHD, 1971, p. 1312)(V.D.-H.K.p.273)(HN, 2/11/01)
1805 Feb 11, At Fort Mandan ND
Sacajawea (16), the Shoshoni guide for Lewis & Clark, gave birth to
a son, with Meriwether Lewis serving as midwife. Sacagawea, the young
Native American girl who aided the Lewis and Clark Expedition, was of
the Lemhi Shoshones, who made their home in what is now southeastern
Idaho and southwestern Montana. About 1800 Sacagawea was captured by a
Hidatsa raiding party at the Three Forks of the Missouri River.
Sometime in 1804, she and another woman were purchased by
French-Canadian fur trapper Toussaint Charbonneau, who lived among the
Hidatsa and Mandan Indians, to be his wives.
(HN, 2/11/99)(HNQ, 12/1/99)(AH, 2/05, p.17)
1806 Feb 11, Vicente Martin y
Soler (51), composer, died.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1808 Feb 11, Anthracite coal was
1st burned as fuel, experimentally, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1809 Feb 11, Robert Fulton
patented the steamboat.
(HN, 2/11/97)
1811 Feb 11, Pres. Madison
prohibited trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1812 Feb 11, Alexander Hamilton
Stephens (d.1883), Vice Pres (Confederacy), was born near
Crawfordville, Georgia. Stephens, who served in the U.S. House of
Representatives from 1843 to 1859, was a delegate at the Montgomery
meeting that formed a new union of the seceded states. He was elected
vice president to Jefferson Davis on February 9, 1861. Stephens was
later elected governor of Georgia in 1882 but died after serving just a
few months.
(HNQ, 5/24/98)(MC, 2/11/02)
1812 Feb 11, Massachusetts Gov.
Elbridge Gerry signed a re-districting law that favored his party
-- giving rise to the term "gerrymandering."
(AP, 2/11/97)
1815 Feb 11, News of the Treaty of
Ghent, ending the War of 1812, finally reached the United States.
(HN, 2/11/99)
1818 Feb 11, In Louisiana sugar
plantation owner Levi Foster sold to his in-laws the slaves named Kit
(28) for $975 and Alick (9) for $400. In 2000 Gwendolyn Midlo Hall and
LSU Press published a CD-ROM database on Louisiana slave transactions:
“Databases for the Study of Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy,
1699-1860: Computerized Information from Original Manuscript Sources.”
(SFEC, 7/30/00, p.)(www.afrigeneas.com)
1821 Feb 11, Auguste Edouard
Mariette, French Egyptologist, (dug out Sphinx 12/16/42), was born.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1826 Feb 11, London University was
founded.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1833 Feb 11, Melville Weston
Fuller, 8th U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice was born.
(HN, 2/11/97)
1840 Feb 11, Gaetano Donizetti's
Opera "La Fille du Regiment," premiered in Paris.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1843 Feb 11, Giuseppe Verdi's
Opera "I Lombardi," premiered in Milan.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1847 Feb 11, American inventor
Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio. He was the inventor of the
first electric light bulb and pioneer of the motion picture industry.
He also Invented at least 1,300 other items.
(HN, 2/11/97)(AP, 2/11/97)
1852 Feb 11, The 1st British
public female toilet opened at Bedford Street in London.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1854 Feb 11, Major streets were
lit by coal gas for 1st time.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1854 Feb 11, Commodore Matthew
Perry pulled into Edo Bay, Japan, 12 months early with 9 warships to
begin talks for a treaty.
(ON, 11/04, p.12)
1855 Feb 11, Josephine Marshall
Jewell Dodge, American educator, pioneer in the concept of day
nurseries for children, was born.
(HN, 2/11/01)
1858 Feb 11, Bernadette Soubirous
(14), a French miller’s daughter, claimed for the first time to have
seen a vision of the Virgin Mary near Lourdes.
(AP, 2/11/97)(HN, 1/11/02)
1861 Feb 11, President-elect
Lincoln departed Springfield, Ill., for Washington.
(AP, 2/11/97)
1861 Feb 11, The US House
unanimously passed a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with
slavery in any state.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1867 Feb 11, August W. Messer,
German philosopher, educator, psychologist, was born.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1868 Feb 11, Jean Bernard Leon
Foucault (b.1819), French physicist, died. He discovered the 1st
physical proof of Earth's rotation (1851) and invented the gyroscope.
(WUD, 1994 p.560)(MC, 2/11/02)(WSJ, 8/28/03, p.D18)
1879 Feb 11, Honore Daumier
(b.1808), French caricaturist, painter, died.
(WUD, 1994 p.369)(MC, 2/11/02)
1887 Feb 11, Ernst "Putzi"
Hanfstangl, German politician and confidante of Hitler, NSDAP &
American school chum of Roosevelt ), was born.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1895 Feb 11, Georgetown became
part of Wash, DC.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1896 Feb 11, Oscar Wilde's
"Salome," premiered in Paris.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1898 Feb 11, Leo Szilard,
physicist, instrumental in the Manhattan Project, was born.
(HN, 2/11/01)
1902 Feb 11, Police beat up
universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1903 Feb 11, Anton Bruckner's 9th
Symphony premiered in Vienna.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1903 Feb 11, Congress passed the
Expedition Act, giving antitrust cases priority in the courts.
(HN, 2/11/97)
1904 Feb 11, President Theodore
Roosevelt proclaimed strict neutrality for the U.S. in the
Russo-Japanese War.
(HN, 2/11/97)
1907 Feb 11, William J. Levitt,
U.S. businessman and community builder, was born. He led the postwar
housing revolutions with his Levittowns.
(HN, 2/11/99)
1907 Feb 11, The passenger ship
Larchmont was steaming through a winter storm in heavy seas, 4 miles
southwest of Watch Hill, Rhode Island when she was rammed by the coal
carrying schooner Harry P. Knowles, which had drifted off course in the
blizzard. The Larchmont sank in 10 minutes and only 19 men including
the captain, George McVey survived the ordeal.
(http://rhodeisland-philatelic.com/rhodeisland/postcard120.htm)
1908 Feb 11, Phillipe Dunne,
screenwriter and director, was born. His films included “How Green Was
My Valley.”
(HN, 2/11/01)
1910 Feb 11, Theodore Roosevelt
Jr. and Eleanor Alexander announced their wedding date--June 20, 1910.
President Theodore Roosevelt signed a bill creating Mesa Verde National
Park.
(HN, 2/11/97)
1912 Feb 11, Rudolf Firkusny,
pianist (Julliard), was born in Napajedla, Czechoslovakia.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1912 Feb 11, Roy Fuller, poet and
novelist, was born.
(HN, 2/11/01)
1916 Feb 11, Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra presented its 1st concert.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1916 Feb 11, Emma Goldman was
arrested for lecturing on birth control.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1917 Feb 11, Sidney Sheldon,
novelist was born.
(HN, 2/11/97)
1919 Feb
11, Eva Gabor (d.1995), actress, was born in Budapest, Hungary.
(http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001247/)
1920 Feb 11, Farouk I, last King
of Egypt (1936-52), was born in Cairo.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1922 Feb 11, "April Showers" by Al
Jolson hit #1.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1922 Feb 11, US "intervention
army" left Honduras.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1925 Feb 11, Virginia E. Johnson,
doctor, sexologist (Masters & Johnson), was born.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1926 Feb 11, Paul Bocuse, French
chef (Legion of Honor), was born.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1926 Feb 11, The Mexican
government nationalized all church property. Plutarco Elias Calles,
founder of the modern Mexican political system, tried to suppress the
Church. This fomented the Cristiada, 3 years of rebellion and outright
war.
(WSJ, 8/13/97, p.A12)(HN, 2/11/97)
1929 Feb 11, The Lateran Treaty
was signed, with Italy recognizing the independence and sovereignty of
Vatican City. The Italian government paid the Vatican $91.7 million for
the papal lands it seized in 1870.
(SFEM, 1/19/96, p.10)(HFA, '96, p.22)(AP, 2/11/97)
1931 Feb 11, Charles Algernon
Parsons (76), British inventor (steam turbine), died.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1933 Feb 11, Pres. Hoover declared
Death Valley a national monument.
(SFEC, 1/3/99, p.T5)
1934 Feb 11, Mary Quant, fashion
designer (Chelsea Look, Mod Look), was born in Kent, England.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1936 Feb 11, Burt Reynolds, actor
(Evening Shade, Strip Tease, Cannonball Run), was born in Michigan.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1936 Feb 11, Pumping began for the
creation of Treasure Island in SF Bay.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1936 Feb 11, The Reich arrested
150 Catholic youth leaders in Berlin. When the war was over many of the
leaders of the Reich were put on trial for the atrocities that had been
committed.
(HN, 2/11/97)
1937 Feb 11, In Flint, Mich., a
sit-down strike against General Motors ended after 44 days, with the
company agreeing to recognize the United Automobile Workers Union. The
UAW was victorious in a strike against GM. GM recognized the union and
agreed to a contract.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)(AP, 2/11/97)
1938 Feb 11, The 4th Lithuanian
parliament accepted Lithuania’s 3rd Constitution, which was proclaimed
May 12, 1938. The Constitution reduced the powers of the Seimas. It
could only consider the draft laws and give recommendations to the
president.
(DrEE, 10/5/96, p.5)(LHC, 2/11/03)
1939 Feb 11, The Negrin government
returned to Madrid, Spain.
(HN, 2/11/97)
1939 Feb 11, Franz Schmidt (64),
Austrian composer, died.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1941 Feb 11, Lt-Gen Erwin Rommel
arrived in Tripoli.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1942 Feb 11, "Archie" comic book
debuted.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1942 Feb 11, The German
battleships Gneisenau, Scharnhorst and Prinz Eugen began their famed
channel dash from the French port of Brest. Their journey took them
through the English Channel on their way back to Germany.
(HN, 2/11/99)
1943 Feb 11, General Eisenhower
was selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1943 Feb 11, Transport # 47
departed with French Jews to Nazi Germany.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1944 Feb 11, U-424 sank off
Ireland.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1945 Feb 11, President Roosevelt,
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin
signed the Yalta Agreement during World War II and adjourned.
(HN, 2/11/97)(AP, 2/11/97)
1945 Feb 11, The 1st gas turbine
propeller-driven airplane was flight tested, at Downey, Ca.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1948 Feb 11, Sergei Eisenstein
(b.1898 in Latvia), Russian film director, died. He pioneered the
dialectic montage where 2 films shots were arranged to clash in order
to produce an emotional or intellectual response in the viewer. In 1999
Ronald Bergan published the biography: "Sergei Eisenstein: A Life In
Conflict."
(SFEC, 5/2/99, BR p.1,10)(MC, 2/11/02)
1951 Feb 11, Kwame Nkrumah won the
1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana).
(MC, 2/11/02)
1951 Feb 11, U.N. forces pushed
north across the 38th parallel once again. Forty-five years after
shipping out to fight in Korea, Col. Harry Summers, Jr., got new
insight into what the war had been all about.
(HN, 2/11/97)
1953 Feb 11, Walt Disney’s “Peter
Pan” premiered. [See Feb 5]
(HN, 2/11/97)
1953 Feb 11, President Eisenhower
refused a clemency appeal for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1954 Feb 11, A 75,000-watt light
bulb was lit at the Rockefeller Center in New York, to commemorate the
75th anniversary of Edison’s first light bulb.
(HN, 2/11/97)
1955 Feb 11, Nationalist Chinese
completed the evacuation of the Tachen Islands.
(HN, 2/11/97)
1959 Feb 11, Iran turned down
Soviet aid in favor of a U.S. proposal for aid.
(HN, 2/11/97)
1960 Feb 11, Jack Paar walked off
his TV show.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1963 Feb 11, A CIA Domestic
Operations Division was created.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1963 Feb 11, Sylvia Plath (30),
American writer, committed suicide by gas in London after Ted Hughes
left her for another woman. Her autobiographical novel “The Bell Jar”
was published this year. She had been married to English poet Ted
Hughes (d.1998), who in 1998 published a 198 page book of verse
“Birthday Letters” based on their relationship. The woman for whom
Hughes left Plath committed suicide 5 years later. Plath’s 1981
"Collected Poems" won a Pulitzer Prize. The Plath book of poems "Ariel"
was published after her death. In 2000 her uncensored diaries: "The
Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath," were edited by Karen V. Kukil.
(SFC, 1/19/98, p.A10)(SFEC, 2/1/98, p.C5)(SFEC,
3/26/00, p.A25)(SFEC, 11/12/00, BR p.1)
1964 Feb 11, Sarah Palin, later
governor of Alaska, was born in Sandpoint, Idaho. After 3 months her
family moved to Alaska. In 2008 Sen. John McCain named her as his
vice-presidential running mate.
(SFC, 8/30/08, p.A6)
1964 Feb 11, The Beatles 1st live
appearance in US was in the Washington, DC Coliseum. It was
filmed by CBS.
(SFC, 3/6/04, p.D17)
1964 Feb 11, Cambodian Prince
Sihanouk blamed the U.S. for a South Vietnamese air raid on a village
in his country.
(HN, 2/11/97)
1965 Feb 11, Pres. Lyndon Johnson
ordered air strikes against targets in North Vietnam, in retaliation
for guerrilla attacks on the American military in South Vietnam. The
American "Rolling Thunder" bombing campaign intensified. In 2006 Rick
Newman and Don Shepperd authored “Bury Us Upside Down: The Misty Pilots
and the Secret Battle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail,” an account of the
pilots who flew low scouting for targets that threatened US bombers.
(HN, 2/11/02)(WSJ, 3/2/06, p.D8)
1966 Feb 11, Vice President Hubert
Humphrey began a tour of Vietnam.
(HN, 2/11/97)
1969 Feb 11, A Lockheed SP2E
Neptune crashed in the Santa Ana Mountains of Orange County, Ca., while
on night training. 7 seamen were killed.
(SFC, 5/7/08,
p.B8)(http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/thirdseries15.html)
1970 Feb 11, Japan launched its
first satellite, Ohsumi-1. That launch made Japan the fourth nation
with a space rocket powerful enough to launch satellites to Earth
orbit, after the USSR, the US and France.
(www.spacetoday.org/Japan/Japan/History.html)
1971 Feb 11, Pres. Nixon issued
Executive Order 11582 dealing with holidays given to federal employees.
(SFC, 2/21/05, p.A7)
1971 Feb 11, John Connally
(1917-1993) replaced David Kennedy as Treasury Secretary under Richard
Nixon. He instituted a 10% surcharge on imports and repudiated fixed
exchange rates.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Connally)
1971 Feb 11, In SF Officer Charles
Lagasa was killed in an accidental helicopter crash at Lake Merced.
(SFC, 1/27/07, p.A8)
1971 Feb 11, Whitney Young Jr.
(b.1921), National Urban League director, drowned in Nigeria.
(www.answers.com/topic/whitney-moore-jr-young)
1972 Feb 11, McGraw-Hill
Publishing Co. and Life magazine canceled plans to publish what turned
out to be a fake autobiography of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes.
(AP, 2/11/97)
1974 Feb 11, Communist-led rebels
showered artillery fire into a crowded area of Phnom Penh, killing 139
and injuring 46 others. As the war in Vietnam wound down with the
signing of the 1973 Paris Peace Accords, the war in neighboring
Cambodia was going from bad to worse.
(HN, 2/11/97)
1975 Feb 11, Margaret Thatcher was
elected leader of the Tory Party, the first woman to lead the British
Conservative Party. in England. She later became Prime Minister and
held office from 1979-1990. Her second volume of memoirs is titled The
Path to Power, (Harper-Collins, 1995) and documents her rise to power.
(WSJ, 7/6/95, p. A-7)(HN, 2/11/99)
1976 Feb 11, Lee J. Cobb (b.1911),
actor (12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront), died.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0002011/)
1977 Feb 11, A 20.2-kg lobster was
caught off Nova Scotia. This was the heaviest known crustacean to date.
(www.canadiangold.ns.ca/funfacts.asp)
1979 Feb 11, In NYC "They're
Playing Our Song" opened at the Imperial Theater and played for 1082
performances.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They're_Playing_Our_Song)
1979 Feb 11, Followers of
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini seized power in Iran, nine days after the
religious leader returned to his home country following 15 years of
exile. Premier Bakhtiar resigned.
(AP, 2/11/97)
1984 Feb 11, Mohammad Maqbool
Bhat, founder of the pro-independence Jammu and Kashmir Liberation
Front (JKLF), was hanged in New Delhi's Tihar jail for the murder of a
policeman. Ravindra Mhatre, India's deputy high commissioner in
Britain, had been murdered in Birmingham, England. A group calling
itself the Kashmir Liberation Army claimed responsibility and demanded
a ransom of 1 million pounds ($1.84 million) and the release of
political prisoners in India. The Indian government hanged Maqbool
Bhat, a leading Kashmiri dissident it had been holding in jail. In 2004
Mohammed Aslam (49) was charged with the kidnap, false imprisonment and
murder of Mhatre.
(AP, 11/4/04)(AFP, 2/11/07)
1985 Feb 11, Jordan’s King Hussein
and PLO leader Arafat signed an accord.
(http://tinyurl.com/yy39mx)
1986 Feb 11, Activist Anatoly
Scharansky was released by USSR, and left the country after nine years
of captivity as part of an East-West prisoner exchange.
(AP, 2/11/04)
1986 Feb 11, Frank Patrick Herbert
(b.1920), sci-fi author (Dune, 1965), died of cancer in Wisconsin.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Herbert)
1987 Feb 11, Peggy Hettrick (37)
in Fort Collins, Colorado, was murdered. Timothy Masters (15) was
convicted and sentenced to life in 1999 for the crime. He served nine
and a half years of a life sentence for the murder until DNA evidence
from the body in 2008 was found to match the victim's ex-boyfriend and
not the Masters.
(Reuters, 1/22/08)
1988 Feb 11, President Reagan's
onetime political director, Lyn Nofziger, was convicted of illegally
lobbying top White House aides. However, the U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals later overturned Nofziger's conviction, and the Supreme Court
refused to reinstate it.
(AP, 2/11/97)
1988 Feb 11, Iran launched a
campaign to retake the Fao Peninsula from Iraq with US planning
assistance. Chemical weapons were used in the attack.
(SSFC, 8/18/02,
p.A12)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Faw_Peninsula)
1989 Feb 11, Reverend Barbara C.
Harris became the first woman consecrated as a bishop in the Episcopal
Church, in a ceremony held in Boston.
(AP, 2/11/99)
1990 Feb 11, In a stunning upset,
heavyweight champion Mike Tyson was knocked out in the 10th round of
his fight with Buster Douglas in Tokyo.
(AP, 2/11/00)
1990 Feb 11, Nelson Mandela was
released from a South African prison after being detained for 27 years
as a political prisoner fighting against Apartheid.
(AP, 2/11/97)(HN, 2/11/99)
1991 Feb 11, President Bush met
with Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin L.
Powell, who had just returned from the Gulf region. Afterward, Bush
said he would hold off on a ground war against Iraq for the time being,
saying allied air strikes had been “very, very effective.”
(AP, 2/11/01)
1991 Feb 11, The parliament of
Iceland confirmed that the recognition of Lithuania from 1922 was fully
valid and that diplomatic relations would be established as soon as
possible. Lithuania received de jure recognition from Iceland.
(DrEE, 1/4/97, p.4)(LHC, 2/11/03)
1991 Feb 11, Oscar Nitzchke (90),
German architect, died in Paris. His buildings included the UN
headquarters in New York, the Los Angeles Opera House.
(http://tinyurl.com/7kx39)
1992 Feb 11, US Secretary of State
James A. Baker III, on a tour of six former Soviet republics, visited
Armenia, where he heard an appeal from the republic's president for
U.S. help in resolving a bloody feud with neighboring Azerbaijan.
(AP, 2/11/02)
1993 Feb 11, President Clinton
announced his choice of Miami prosecutor Janet Reno to be the nation's
first female attorney general, after two earlier candidates stumbled
because they'd hired illegal aliens.
(AP, 2/11/97)
1993 Feb 11, In Afghanistan some
800 Hazzara civilians were massacred in the Afshar district of West
Kabul.
(Econ, 2/17/07, p.45)(http://tinyurl.com/34h7bu)
1994 Feb 11, President Clinton and
Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa, meeting at the White House,
failed to resolve key differences on trade.
(AP, 2/11/99)
1994 Feb 11, A judge in Fort
Worth, Texas, ordered Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison acquitted of ethics
charges after prosecutors refused to present their case.
(AP, 2/11/04)
1994 Feb 11, The space shuttle
"Discovery" returned from an eight-day mission.
(AP, 2/11/99)
1994 Feb 11, Actor William Conrad
died in Los Angeles at age 73.
(AP, 2/11/99)
1995 Feb 11, President Clinton, in
his weekly radio address, threatened to veto any attempt by Republicans
to scrap plans to put 100,000 additional police officers on the streets.
(AP, 2/11/00)
1995 Feb 11, The space shuttle
Discovery landed at Cape Canaveral, Fla., ending a historic rendezvous
mission with Russia's Mir space station.
(AP, 2/11/00)
1996 Feb 11, A day after losing to
an IBM computer dubbed “Deep Blue,” world chess champion Garry Kasparov
rebounded to defeat the machine and even their six-game series in
Philadelphia at one victory apiece.
(AP, 2/11/01)
1996 Feb 11, Tamil politicians in
Sri Lanka charged that government troops killed 24 civilians in the
eastern district of Trincomalee.
(WSJ, 2/12/96, p.A-13)
1997 Feb 11, In a display of
bipartisan unity, President Clinton and congressional leaders agreed to
focus the new Congress on balancing the budget and other issues ranging
from cutting taxes to solving the capital city's myriad problems.
(AP, 2/11/97)
1997 Feb 11, Space shuttle
Discovery was launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space
Telescope.
(AP, 2/11/97)
1997 Feb 11, Bosnian Croats
evicted 26 Muslim families from the Croat half of the city of Mostar.
(WSJ, 2/12/97, p.A1)
1998 Feb 11, Attorney General
Janet Reno asked for an independent prosecutor to investigate whether
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt had misled Congress in connection with
an Indian casino controversy; The counsel, Carol Elder Bruce, found no
wrongdoing on Babbitt's part.
(AP, 2/11/03)
1998 Feb 11, KVBC-FM (Las Vegas)
offered Monica Lewinsky $5M for an interview.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1998 Feb 11, Skier Jonny Moseley
won the first U.S. gold medal at Nagano, in men's moguls freestyle;
Picabo Street won the women's super-G. Canadian snowboarder Ross
Rebagliati was stripped of his gold medal after testing positive for
marijuana. His medal was later reinstated.
(AP, 2/11/99)
1998 Feb 11, Ben Cohen, co-founder
of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream, was named as director of the Greenpeace
environmental group. Greenpeace had an annual worldwide income of about
$160 mil.
(SFEC, 2/15/98, p.A7)
1998 Feb 11, In Montenegro former
Pres. Momir Bulatovic was indicted with 3 senior aides for activity
against the state during the January riots.
(SFC, 2/13/98, p.D5)
1998 Feb 11, Russia’s Pres.
Yeltsin completed a 3 day visit to Italy and scored $5 billion in trade
and investment contracts.
(SFC, 2/12/98, p.A14)
1999 Feb 11, US jets struck 7
Iraqi air defense sites.
(SFC, 2/12/99, p.A14)
1999 Feb 11, A federal jury in New
York found several gun makers responsible in three area shootings for
letting guns fall into the hands of criminals; other manufacturers were
cleared. Several gun manufacturers were found negligent for marketing
and distribution practices but awarded limited damages. The plaintiffs
suffered a setback in 2001 when the New York Court of Appeals
invalidated such claims.
(SFC, 2/12/99, p.A3)(AP, 2/11/04)
1999 Feb 11, On the Oregon coast
the New Carissa cargo ship was set on fire with explosives to burn off
some 400,000 gallons of fuel oil to prevent its spillage.
(SFC, 2/12/99, p.A5)
1999 Feb 11, Jaki Byard (76), jazz
pianist, saxophonist and teacher, was shot dead in his home in Queens.
(SFC, 2/16/99, p.A18)
1999 Feb 11, In Bangladesh
opposition parties called general strikes and 5 people were killed.
(SFEC, 3/7/99, p.T14)
1999 Feb 11, In India a private
army of upper-caste landlords shot and killed 12 low-caste villagers in
Bihar.
(SFC, 2/12/99, p.A18)
1999 Feb 11, In Iran Pres. Khatami
marked the 20th anniversary of the revolution that toppled the shah and
called for reduction of tensions with the outside world.
(SFC, 2/12/99, p.A17)
1999 Feb 11, In Italy angry female
lawmakers wore jeans to protest an appeals court ruling that said rape
is impossible if the victim is wearing jeans.
(SFC, 2/12/99, p.A1)
1999 Feb 11, In Paraguay the
Congress voted to begin impeachment proceedings against Pres. Raul
Cubas for freeing Lino Oviedo.
(SFC, 2/12/99, p.A18)
2000 Feb 11, In Minnesota Gov.
Jesse Ventura cut his ties to the Reform Party. In Nashville the
national chairman, Jack Gargan, was ousted by forces loyal to Ross
Perot and Pat Buchanan.
(SFC, 2/12/00, p.A3)(SFEC, 2/13/00,
p.A3)
2000 Feb 11, The space shuttle
Endeavour lifted into orbit with a crew of six under commander Kevin
Kregel and a mission to map the Earth.
(SFC, 2/12/00, p.A4)(AP, 2/11/01)
2000 Feb 11, An early morning bomb
exploded in NYC on the corner of Wall and Water streets in front of an
office building owned by Barclay's Bank. One person was slightly
injured.
(SFC, 2/12/00, p.A2)
2000 Feb 11, Britain suspended the
10-week old power-sharing government of Northern Ireland. An
independent panel reported progress on the question of disarmament by
the IRA.
(SFC, 2/12/00, p.A1)(AP, 2/11/01)
2000 Feb 11, In France Roger
Vadim, film director, died at age 72. His 5 wives included Brigitte
Bardot, Annette Stroyberg, Catherine Deneuve, Jane Fonda, Catherine
Schneider and Marie-Christine Barrault.
(SFC, 2/12/00, p.A21)(AP, 2/11/01)
2000 Feb 11, In Lebanon Hezbollah
launched another rocket attack that killed an Israeli soldier. Israel
responded with warplanes and attacks in southern Lebanon and the
eastern Bekaa Valley to which Hezbollah responded with fresh hits.
Israel cancelled an urgent -US-led meeting called to diffuse the
widening war.
(SFC, 2/12/00, p.A11)
2000 Feb 11, In South Africa it
was reported that at least 19 people had died and 12 were feared
drowned after torrential rains hit the northern province of Mpumalanga.
(SFC, 2/12/00, p.A9)
2001 Feb 11, The East NBA
All-Stars defeated the West squad, 111-to-110.
(AP, 2/11/02)
2001 Feb 11, Ann Bancroft and Liv
Arnesen became the 1st women to cross the Antarctic land mass on skis.
(SFC, 2/13/01, p.D3)
2001 Feb 11, Three Rivers Stadium
in Pittsburgh was demolished to clear the way for new separate baseball
and football stadiums nearby.
(AP, 2/11/02)
2001 Feb 11, It was reported that
scientists had found the human genome to consist of 30,000 genes and
that only some 300 were unique to humans as when compared to mice.
(SSFC, 2/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 11, Two space commanders
opened the door to Destiny, the American-made science laboratory
attached the day before to the international space station.
(AP, 2/11/02)
2001 Feb 11, Gao Zhan, a US-based
scholar, was detained at Beijing airport by Chinese authorities. She
was formally charged as a spy on April 3. [see Mar 27]
(WSJ, 3/28/01, p.A1)(SFC, 4/4/01, p.D14)
2001 Feb 11, In Colombia 9 young
hikers, 6 men and 3 women, were found killed execution style in
southwest Purace National Park. FARC later admitted to killing the 8
hikers.
(SFC, 2/15/01, p.A12)(WSJ, 3/19/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 11, In Croatia some
100,000 protested the investigation of former general Mirko Norac for
war crimes in 1991.
(SFC, 2/12/01, p.B2)
2001 Feb 11, In El Salvador armed
men attacked a bus carrying a local soccer team near Zacatecoluca. The
coach was killed and 3 others injured.
(SFC, 2/13/01, p.D3)
2001 Feb 11, In Thailand troops
fought a gun battle with some 200 Burmese soldiers who crossed the
border chasing Shan rebels.
(SFC, 2/12/01, p.B2)
2001 Feb 11, In Ukraine some 5-10
thousand protesters called for the resignation of Pres. Kuchma. Kuchma
fired 2 top security officials amid the growing scandal of a journalist
killed while investigating graft.
(SFC, 2/12/01, p.B1)(WSJ, 2/12/01, p.A1)
2002 Feb 11, Americans Ross
Powers, Danny Kass and J.J. Thomas took gold, silver and bronze in the
men's halfpipe at the Salt Lake City Olympics. Gold medals for the
Olympics free-style skating event went to Russians Anton Sikharulidze
and Elena Berezhnaya. French judge Marie-Reine Le Gougne later admitted
to being pressured to support the Russian team. On Feb 15 Olympic
officials awarded a 2nd gold medal to Canadians David Pelletier and
Jamie Sale for their performance.
(SFC, 2/16/02, p.A1)(AP, 2/11/03)
2002 Feb 11, The FBI issued a
warning for a possible terrorist assault and identified Fawaz Yahya
al-Rabeei, a Yemeni national, as a possible attacker.
(SFC, 2/12/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 11, SF sued PG&E for
a $5 billion refund to ratepayers.
(SFC, 2/12/02, p.B1)
2002 Feb 11, In Afghanistan opium
vendors shut down in Kandahar under US military orders.
(SFC, 2/12/02, p.A14)
2002 Feb 11, The Argentine peso
was put to float for the 1st time in a decade and dropped about 5% to
2.1 pesos to the dollar.
(SFC, 2/12/02, p.A10)
2002 Feb 11, In Colombia suspected
FARC rebels sent 2 bombs into a southern army garrison and killed 10
sleeping soldiers.
(SFC, 2/12/02, p.A10)
2002 Feb 11, In Indonesia warring
Christians and Muslims from Maluku province began 2 days of peace talks.
(SFC, 2/12/02, p.A10)
2002 Feb 11, Israel bombed the
Palestinian security headquarters in the Gaza Strip for a 2nd day in
response to the use of a Kassam-2 rocket by Hamas.
(SFC, 2/12/02, p.A8)(AP, 2/11/03)
2002 Feb 11, In Jordan Raed Hijazi
(33) was convicted and sentenced to be hung for plotting to blow up
tourist sites during millennium celebrations. [see Dec 2000]
(SFC, 2/12/02, p.A12)
2003 Feb 11, Federal Reserve
Chairman Alan Greenspan said that Pres. Bush's tax cut would increase
the federal budget deficits and voiced opposition.
(SFC, 2/12/03, p.A1)
2003 Feb 11, Addressing a historic
rift within NATO, Secretary of State Colin Powell told a congressional
hearing the future of the military alliance was at risk if it failed to
confront the crisis with Iraq.
(AP, 2/11/04)
2003 Feb 11, The purported voice
of Osama bin Laden, broadcast over the Al Jazeera network, told his
followers to help Saddam Hussein fight Americans.
(AP, 2/12/03)
2003 Feb 11, A group of around 50
Western anti-war activists received visas to enter Iraq where they plan
to form "human shields." Iraq said it would allow U-2 surveillance
flights.
(Reuters, 2/11/03)(SFC, 2/11/03, p.A10)
2003 Feb 11, Afghan officials said
17 civilians were killed in American-led bombing over the last 2 days.
(SFC, 2/12/03, p.A8)
2003 Feb 11, From China it was
reported that an unidentified illness, 1st noted in Nov., has killed at
least five people in Guangdong province, left hundreds hospitalized and
sent health officials scrambling to find its source.
(AP, 2/11/03)
2003 Feb 11, In China Ma Sanli
(b.1914), a master performer of the traditional Chinese art of
crosstalk, a rhythmic, often humorous mix of dialogue and storytelling,
died.
(AP, 2/11/03)
2003 Feb 11, The private plane
carrying Colombian Minister of Social Welfare, Juan Luis Londono, was
found crashed in the mountains north of the town of Cajamarca, 85 miles
west of Bogota. It had disappeared 5 days earlier.
(AP, 2/11/03)
2003 Feb 11, Israeli troops killed
an armed Palestinian in the Gaza Strip, and Israel imposed a blanket
closure on the Palestinian areas during the Muslim Hajj because of
warnings of possible attacks. Israeli soldiers killed an 8-year-old boy
in the West Bank and an Israeli was killed by a Palestinian gunman in
Bethlehem.
(AP, 2/11/03)(SFC, 2/12/03, p.A13)
2003 Feb 11, In Paraguay Pres.
Luis Gonzalez Macchi survived an impeachment trial as the Senate failed
to muster enough votes to strip him from power over corruption charges.
(AP, 2/12/03)
2003 Feb 11, In Mina, Saudi
Arabia, 14 Muslim pilgrims were trampled to death when some worshippers
tripped amid a jostling crowd during the devil-stoning ritual of the
annual Hajj pilgrimage.
(AP, 2/11/03)(SFC, 2/12/03, p.A9)
2004 Feb 11, Wesley Clark dropped
out of the race for the White House.
(AP, 2/11/05)
2004 Feb 11, It was reported that
Mattel planned to introduce a line of toys capable of receiving digital
signals from a new Batman TV cartoon show scheduled for the Fall.
(WSJ, 2/11/04, p.A1)
2004 Feb 11, Cable TV giant
Comcast Corp. launched a hostile bid to buy The Walt Disney Co. for
more than $54 billion. Comcast later dropped its bid.
(WSJ, 2/12/04, p.A1)(AP, 2/11/05)
2004 Feb 11, In eastern
Afghanistan a suicide attacker fatally shot a senior intelligence
official in Khost, then blew himself up as guards tried to arrest him.
(AP, 2/11/04)(WSJ, 2/12/04, p.A1)
2004 Feb 11, In Bolivia 2 inmates
were voluntarily nailed to crosses by their fellow prisoners as part of
a protest for better conditions and shorter sentences that was
broadcast on TV.
(AP, 2/11/04)
2004 Feb 11, A gas explosion in a
coal mine in southern China killed 24 miners.
(AP, 2/11/04)
2004 Feb 11, Jozef Lenart (80), a
former Czechoslovak prime minister cleared of treason charges for his
alleged role in the 1968 Soviet-led invasion that crushed the country's
democratic movement, died. He served as prime minister of
Czechoslovakia from 1963-1968 and headed the Slovak Communist Party
until 1988. A Slovak national he acquired Czech citizenship after
Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993.
(AP, 2/12/04)
2004 Feb 11, In Haiti pro-Aristide
supporters killed up to 50 residents of St. Marc.
(Econ, 5/14/05,
p.42)(www.haitipolicy.org/content/2969.htm)
2004 Feb 11, In Iraq a suicide
attacker blew up a car packed with explosives in a crowd of hundreds of
Iraqis waiting outside a Baghdad army recruiting center, killing 47
people in the second bombing in two days.
(AP, 2/11/05)
2004 Feb 11, Israeli troops rode
tanks into the Gaza Strip searching for Islamic militants firing
rockets at nearby Jewish settlements, and the ensuing battle left at
least 15 Palestinians dead and more than 50 wounded.
(AP, 2/11/04)(SFC, 2/12/04, p.A8)
2004 Feb 11, The bodies of 2
Americans, Francisco A. Antonielli (33) and James F. Bowtte (43), were
discovered in a parking garage at the airport in Tijuana, Mexico, the
apparent victims of a drug-related gunbattle.
(AP, 2/11/04)
2004 Feb 11, Philippine troops
rescued Alastair Joseph Onglingswan (35), a kidnapped American
businessman, who was chained by his neck and feet for 22 days by a lone
abductor.
(AP, 2/11/04)
2004 Feb 11, In Puerto Rico 4
people were killed in separate shootings over the last 24 hours,
pushing the number of deaths past the 100 mark for this year. There
were 780 killings in 2003, compared with 781 in 2002. Police say most
of the violence on the island of 4 million people is drug-related.
(AP, 2/11/04)
2004 Feb 11, South Korean
scientists reported that they had cloned human embryonic tissue cells.
(SFC, 2/12/04, p.A1)
2004 Feb 11, Sri Lanka's president
fired 39 ministers and deputy ministers from the caretaker government
headed by her rival.
(AP, 2/11/04)
2004 Feb 11, Sudan
government-backed militias reportedly attacked five villages in
southern Darfur region, killing between 68 and 80 civilians. "Amnesty
International continued to receive details of horrifying attacks
against civilians in villages by government warplanes, soldiers and
government-aligned militia."
(AP, 2/18/04)
2005 Feb 11, Defense Secretary
Donald H. Rumsfeld made an unannounced visit to Iraq, where he observed
Iraqi security forces and declared "there's no question progress has
been made" in preparing the nation for building a new government.
(AP, 2/11/06)
2005 Feb 11, The US State
Department said Libyan diplomats can travel freely in the US.
(AP, 2/11/05)
2005 Feb 11, Health officials in
NYC issued a nationwide alert over a new AIDS HIV strain that is immune
to just about all antiretroviral drugs.
(SFC, 2/12/05, p.A1)
2005 Feb 11, CNN chief news
executive Eason Jordan quit amid a furor over remarks he'd made about
journalists being targeted by the U.S. military in Iraq.
(AP, 2/11/06)
2005 Feb 11, Samuel W. Alderson
(90), inventor of crash test dummies, died in Marina Del Rey, Calif.
(AP, 2/11/06)
2005 Feb 11, In Afghanistan US
troops killed two unarmed men after they entered an exclusion zone
around near Shindand Air Base in Herat province. An investigation
followed.
(AP, 2/19/05)
2005 Feb 11, A political
consulting firm posted the names of 19 agents and informants of
Hungary's communist secret police on a Web site, and it threatened to
list more.
(AP, 2/11/05)
2005 Feb 11, A car bomb exploded
outside a Shiite mosque northeast of Baghdad, killing at least 12
people and injuring dozens. Masked men sprayed gunfire into a crowd at
a bakery in a mostly Shiite neighborhood in the capital, killing 11
people. A US Marine and an Army soldier were killed in separate traffic
accidents.
(AP, 2/11/05)(AP, 2/12/05)
2005 Feb 11, Kashmir police said
10 people died, including a pro-India party worker slain by Muslim
rebels, a day ahead of the next round of violence-hit municipal polls.
(AP, 2/11/05)
2005 Feb 11, North Korea demanded
bilateral talks with the US to defuse the tension created by its
announcement that it is a nuclear power. The White House said it was
not interested in one-on-one talks.
(AP, 2/11/05)
2005 Feb 11, A day after firing
his top security commanders, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas headed to
the Gaza Strip to demand that militant leaders stop attacking Israelis,
a strong sign of his determination to enforce a fragile truce with
Israel.
(AP, 2/11/05)
2005 Feb 11, In South Africa Thabo
Mbeki gave his state of the nation speech. He called for faster
economic growth and a quicker transfer of wealth from white to black
pockets.
(Econ, 2/19/05, p.45)(www.info.gov.za/speeches/son/)
2005 Feb 11, Venezuela's vice
president said US objections will not prevent Venezuela from going
ahead with its plans to purchase 100,000 Kalashnikov assault rifles and
dozens of Mi35 helicopters from Russia.
(AP, 2/11/05)(Econ, 2/26/05, p.35)
2005 Feb 11, Zimbabwe announced
that 1.5 million people needed food aid immediately.
(SFC, 2/12/05, p.A3)
2006 Feb 11, Vice President Dick
Cheney accidentally shot Harry Whittington (78), a hunting companion,
during a weekend quail hunting trip at the 50,000-acre Armstrong ranch
in Texas. Whittington, peppered with bird shot, was in stable condition.
(AP, 2/13/06)
2006 Feb 11, Dubai Ports World, a
state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates, won approval from a
secretive US panel for a $6.8 billion deal to take over operations at
six American ports.
(AP, 2/11/07)
2006 Feb 11, Adventurer Steve
Fossett completed the longest nonstop flight in aviation history,
flying 26,389 miles in about 76 hours, but he had to land early in
southern England because of mechanical problems.
(AP, 2/11/06)
2006 Feb 11, It was reported that
the town of Hull was one of many in central Iowa whose groundwater has
been contaminated by farm chemicals. It pinned hopes for its future
water supply on the new Lewis and Clark Rural Water System, due to open
in 2018. The system planned to pump Missouri River water across South
Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa.
(Econ, 2/11/06, p.33)
2006 Feb 11, Peter Benchley (65),
"Jaws" author, died in Princeton, N.J.
(AP, 2/11/07)
2006 Feb 11, The presidents of
Armenia and Azerbaijan failed to reach agreement after two days of
talks on how to end the bloody conflict over the enclave of
Nagorno-Karabakh.
(AP, 2/11/06)
2006 Feb 11, Nova Scotia's
Conservative party chose Cape Bretoner Rodney MacDonald, a professional
fiddler and former gym teacher, as their leader and the province's new
premier following a dramatic convention in Halifax.
(CP, 2/11/06)
2006 Feb 11, Denmark said it has
temporarily withdrawn its ambassadors from Syria, Iran and Indonesia
because their safety was at risk in the wake of a Danish newspaper's
publication of drawings of the Prophet Muhammad.
(AP, 2/11/06)
2006 Feb 11, An Egyptian diplomat
abducted at gunpoint in the Gaza Strip was released.
(AP, 2/11/06)
2006 Feb 11, In Indian Kashmir 8
people, including three security personnel, were killed in separate
overnight clashes and rebel attacks. An Islamic separatist women's
group, known for its fierce opposition to Western-style romance, vowed
to prevent couples celebrating Valentine's Day.
(AFP, 2/11/06)
2006 Feb 11, Iran's president
rejected US and European pressure to freeze the country's nuclear
program and hinted that Iran may withdraw from the Nuclear
Nonproliferation Treaty.
(AP, 2/11/06)
2006 Feb 11, An Iraqi army
spokesman was assassinated in Basra.
(AP, 2/11/06)
2006 Feb 11, Italy dissolved its
parliament and scheduled elections for early April, opening a campaign
that pits Premier Silvio Berlusconi against a strong center-left
opponent.
(AP, 2/11/06)
2006 Feb 11, American Chad Hedrick
won the 5,000 meters in speedskating at the Olympics in Turin, Italy.
(AP, 2/11/07)
2006 Feb 11, Altynbek Sarsenbayev
(43), a Kazakh former minister and leading member of the political
opposition, was abducted in Almaty. He was found shot dead 2 days later
along with his bodyguard and driver later near Almaty. Sarsenbaev held
a senior position in Alban, a subdivision of the Elder Horde, one of
Kazakhstan’s 3 great traditional tribal groupings. Relatives and
supporters of Sarsenbayev accused authorities of covering up for those
behind the high-profile killing as 10 defendants faced trial on June 15.
(AP, 2/13/06)(Econ, 2/18/06, p.44)(AP, 6/14/06)
2006 Feb 11, In Pakistan tribal
insurgents killed three soldiers and injured 10 others in two attacks
on paramilitary forces in southwestern Baluchistan province.
(AP, 2/11/06)
2006 Feb 11, Suspected US military
fire struck the tent of a nomad family on the Pakistan side of the
rugged border with Afghanistan, killing two women and injuring at least
four children.
(AP, 2/13/06)
2006 Feb 11, In Moscow G-8 finance
ministers called for stepped up efforts to ensure a stable worldwide
energy supply.
(SSFC, 2/12/06, p.A23)
2006 Feb 11, In Sri Lanka a
suspected separatist rebel boat carrying explosives blew up, apparently
killing at least four men on board.
(AP, 2/12/06)
2006 Feb 11, In southern Sudan a
military transport plane blew a tire while landing at Aweil, swerved
off the runway and exploded, killing all 20 people on board.
(AP, 2/12/06)
2006 Feb 11, Thailand's PM
Shinawatra, facing growing calls for his resignation, agreed to hold a
national referendum on amending the country's constitution.
(AP, 2/11/06)
2006 Feb 11-2006 Feb 15, The
Pacific archipelago of Tokelau, population ~1,500, voted in a
referendum (349-232) to remain as a territory of New Zealand rather
than becoming a self-governing state in free association with New
Zealand.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokelau_self-determination_referendum,_2006)
2006 Feb 11, In Tunis US Defense
Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and leaders of Tunisia pledged to build
closer military ties to help combat Islamic extremism.
(AP, 2/11/06)
2006 Feb 11, It was reported that
drought in northern Vietnam threatened 740,000 acres of rice as the
level of the Red River continued to fall to its lowest level in over
100 years.
(SFC, 6/4/04, A1)
2007 Feb 11, The Dixie Chicks won
five Grammys in a defiant comeback after being shunned over their
anti-President Bush comments about the Iraq war.
(AP, 2/11/08)
2007 Feb 11, Harvard Univ.
appointed Drew Gilpin Faust as its 28th and first female president.
(SFC, 2/12/07, p.A5)
2007 Feb 11, Intel introduced a
new super-processor at the opening of an int’l conference of chip
scientists. The processor would be able to perform over 1 trillion
mathematical calculations per second (teraflop), but commercial use
would not be available for 5 years.
(SFC, 2/12/07, p.A9)
2007 Feb 11, Scientists reported
in the journal Nature that they had successfully prevented cleft
palates in embryonic mice using a technique called chemical genetics.
(SFC, 2/12/07, p.A3)
2007 Feb 11, Helmand’s provincial
governor said an estimated 700 foreign fighters are operating in a
southern Afghan province where Taliban fighters overran a town earlier
this month. Asserting a right to self-defense the commander of US
forces in the region said American forces in eastern Afghanistan have
launched artillery rounds into Pakistan to strike Taliban fighters who
attack remote US outposts. A US service member died of a gunshot wound
in northern Afghanistan.
(AP, 2/11/07)
2007 Feb 11, Muhammad Yunus,
Bangladesh's "banker to the poor" and Nobel Peace Prize winner,
formally announced his willingness to form a new political party to
take part in forthcoming elections. In May Yunus reversed his decision
to enter politics.
(AFP, 2/11/07)(Econ, 5/12/07, p.46)
2007 Feb 11, In Egypt Osama Hassan
Mustafa Nasr, known as Abu Omar, was released. The Egyptian Muslim
preacher had been allegedly kidnapped by CIA agents off the streets of
Milan, Italy, on Feb 17, 2003, and taken to Egypt. It was reported that
since the end of December seven women have been stabbed by a
dark-skinned man in his 20s in Cairo’s Maadi suburb, whose richer areas
are home to numerous embassies and many foreigners.
(AP, 2/12/07)(AFP, 2/12/07)
2007 Feb 11, In France socialist
presidential candidate Segolene Royal unveiled a long-awaited platform
that promised to boost the minimum wage and pension payments.
(AP, 2/11/07)
2007 Feb 11, Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, marking the 28th anniversary of the Islamic
Revolution, vowed his country would not give up uranium enrichment.
(AP, 2/11/08)
2007 Feb 11, A suicide truck
bomber slammed into a crowd of police lining up for duty near Tikrit,
collapsing the station and killing at least 30 people and wounding 50.
21 of the 30 killed were policemen. Minutes later, a roadside bomb
struck a car on a highway on the western outskirts of Tikrit killing
two civilians and wounding two others. A suicide bomber blew himself up
next to a police patrol in the religiously mixed neighborhood of Ilam
in southwestern Baghdad, killing one policeman. A parked car bomb
exploded near an intersection, killing two people and wounding three in
Mansour. A US soldier was killed after coming under small-arms fire
northeast of Baghdad. A senior US intelligence officer said high-tech
roadside bombs, that have proved particularly deadly to American
soldiers, are manufactured in Iran and delivered to Iraq on orders from
the "highest levels" of the Iranian government. Another US soldier was
killed in fighting in Anbar province.
(AP, 2/11/07)(AP, 2/13/07)
2007 Feb 11, Israel successfully
conducted its first nighttime test of the Arrow anti-missile system
after sundown.
(AP, 2/11/07)
2007 Feb 11, Indian Kashmir was
hit by clashes between police and protesters as separatists held a
general strike marking the anniversary of the execution of a prominent
rebel.
(AP, 2/11/07)
2007 Feb 11, In Kosovo 2
protesters injured the previous day in violent clashes with police died
of their wounds.
(AP, 2/11/07)
2007 Feb 11, Portugal held a
national referendum on whether to discard its strict abortion law, a
battle that pits the Socialist government against conservative parties
and the Catholic Church. Almost 60% of voters approved the referendum
allowing women to opt for abortions up to the 10th week of pregnancy,
however the turnout was only 44%.
(AP, 2/11/07)(AP, 2/12/07)
2007 Feb 11, President Vladimir
Putin, making the first visit by a Russian leader to Saudi Arabia, met
King Abdullah and other senior officials for talks that touched on
regional tensions including Iraq and the Palestinian territories.
(AP, 2/11/07)
2007 Feb 11, A Syrian court
sentenced Mohammed Haydar Zammar, a man believed to have known the
Sept. 11 hijackers, to 12 years in prison for membership in the banned
Muslim Brotherhood organization.
(AP, 2/11/07)
2007 Feb 11, Voters cast ballots
as Turkmenistan, ruled for more than two decades by an eccentric
autocrat, held its first presidential election with more than one
candidate, but still only one party.
(AP, 2/11/07)
2007 Feb 11, In Venezuela
officials said President Hugo Chavez's government has drafted a decree
allowing officials to take control of food distribution chains,
including supermarkets and storage depots, if services are interrupted.
(AP, 2/11/07)
2008 Feb 11, A US defense
official, an ex-Boeing engineer and two others were charged in 2
separate spy cases with spying for China involving sensitive military
and aerospace secrets, including on the space shuttle.
(AFP, 2/11/08)(SFC, 2/12/08, p.A3)
2008 Feb 11, William Lerach (61),
a former partner at a well-known New York law firm, was sentenced to
two years in federal prison for his role in a lucrative kickback scheme
involving class-action lawsuits against some of the nation's biggest
corporations. Authorities said Lerach's former firm, now known as
Milberg Weiss, made an estimated $250 million over two decades by
filing legal actions on behalf of professional plaintiffs who received
kickbacks.
(AP, 2/11/08)
2008 Feb 11, It was reported that
Patricia Cornwell (51), crime novelist, was donating $1 million to
NYC’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice to help start a Crime Scene
Academy.
(WSJ, 2/11/08, p.B7)
2008 Feb 11, It was reported that
Ronald Fearing, Berkeley professor in electrical engineering, has
invented a tape-like substance based on the physics used by geckos to
scoot upside-down across ceilings.
(SFC, 2/11/08, p.C1)
2008 Feb 11, Dow Jones added
Chevron and Bank of America to its DJIA index in place of Altria Group
and Honeywell Int’l.
(SFC, 2/12/08, p.C1)
2008 Feb 11, Rep. Tom Lantos (80)
of California, the only Holocaust survivor to serve in Congress, died.
(AP, 2/11/08)
2008 Feb 11, Frank Piasecki
(b.1919), helicopter pioneer and test pilot, died. In 1940 he
co-founded P-V Engineering Forum (1940) with Howard Venzie. In 1960
Piasecki Helicopter Corp. merged with Boeing Airplane Co.
(WSJ, 2/16/08, p.A6)
2008 Feb 11, President Evo Morales
declared a US Embassy security officer to be an "undesirable person"
after reports that the officer asked an American scholar and 30 Peace
Corps volunteers to pass along information about Cubans and Venezuelans
working in Bolivia.
(AP, 2/11/08)
2008 Feb 11, In London the price
of platinum struck an historic high nearing $1,900 on supply
disruptions caused by power shortages in South Africa, the white
metal's biggest producer.
(AP, 2/11/08)
2008 Feb 11, Chad's PM Nouradin
Koumakoye demanded that the international community remove refugees who
have fled to Chad from Sudan's Darfur region.
(AP, 2/11/08)
2008 Feb 11, A Cairo appeals court
acquitted Howayda Taha, an Al-Jazeera journalist sentenced to six
months over a film that highlighted torture in Egyptian police
stations, but it still upheld a fine against her.
(AFP, 2/11/08)
2008 Feb 11, Rebel soldiers shot
and critically wounded East Timor's Pres. Jose Ramos-Horta, and opened
fire on PM Xanana Gusmao, in a failed coup attempt in the recently
independent nation. Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado and one of his men
were killed in the attack on the home of Ramos-Horta, while one of the
president's guards also died.
(AP, 2/11/08)
2008 Feb 11, Twin car bombs struck
near the compound of Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, one of Iraq's most powerful
Shiite politicians, killing at least six civilians and wounding 20.
(AP, 2/11/08)
2008 Feb 11, In Japan US Staff
Sergeant Tyrone Luther Hadnott was arrested after a 14-year-old girl
said he raped her in his car. Hadnott was released Feb 29 after the
girl withdrew her criminal complaint against him. He still faced a US
military investigation. On May 16 Hadnott (38) was found guilty of
abusive sexual conduct and sentenced to four years in prison.
(AFP, 2/12/08)(AP, 3/1/08)(AP, 5/16/08)
2008 Feb 11, Gunmen killed a
Nigerian naval officer and forced several others to dive for their
lives into the water in oil-rich southern Rivers State.
(AFP, 2/11/08)
2008 Feb 11, Pakistani security
forces critically wounded Mansoor Dadullah, a top figure in the Taliban
militia, among six militants captured after a firefight near the
border. Nisar Ali Khan, an independent candidate running in next week's
parliamentary elections, was killed along with seven supporters in a
suicide attack in North Waziristan. Pakistani lawyers began a
nationwide boycott of the courts to pressure the president to reinstate
senior judges he sacked under a state of emergency more than three
months ago. Pakistani envoy, Tariq Azizuddin, was heading to the Afghan
capital Kabul with his driver when they disappeared in the lawless
Khyber tribal district. Azizuddin was released on May 17. 2 technicians
from the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission were abducted by masked men
in the country's northwest.
(AP, 2/11/08)(AFP, 2/12/08)(AP, 5/17/08)
2008 Feb 11, Spanish police
arrested at least 13 members of the outlawed Basque separatist party
Batasuna in a crackdown on groups linked to the armed organization ETA
before next month's elections.
(AP, 2/11/08)
2008 Feb 11, Uruguay President
Tabare Vazquez ousted his ministers of defense, foreign affairs and
industry, saying he was seeking a better team for his final two years
in office.
(AP, 2/12/08)
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