Events that happened on 11 February

On 11 February 2011, Hosni Mubarak resigned as Egypt’s president. On 11 February 1990, Nelson Mandela is freed after 27 years in jail. On 11 February 1979, Iran's premier Bakhtiar resigns and Ayatollah Khomeini takes over. What else happened on 11 February? For the trivia buffs, this is the list of all the events that happened on 11 February. 
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Raja Petra Kamarudin

2011     Hosni Mubarak resigns as Egypt’s president 
2010     A European Union summit discusses the possibility of bailing out Greece's economy
2009     Morgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe after agreeing to share power with President Robert Mugabe
2006     Dick Cheney accidentally shoots friend in a hunting accident
1998     KVBC-FM (Las Vegas) offers Monica Lewinsky $5M for interview
1998     Lyrics to "Candle in the Wind 1997," auctioned for $442,500
1997     Bill Parcells becomes head coach of New York Jets
1997     STS-82 (Discovery 22) launches
1996     46th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 129-118 at San Antonio
1995     Danyon Loader swims world record 400m freestyle (340.46)
1995     Mark Foster swims world record 50m butterfly (23.55 sec)
1995     Sandra Volker swims European record 50m backstroke (27.67 sec)
1995     Space shuttle STS-63 (Discovery 19), lands
1995     U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
1995     West Indies score 5-660 against New Zealand
1994     Lu Parker, (South Carolina), crowned 43rd Miss USA
1994     Space shuttle STS-60 (Discovery 18), lands
1993     Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester, New York on WRQI
1993     Irina Privalova runs world record 60m indoor (6.92 seconds)
1993     Janet Reno selected by Clinton as U.S. Attorney General
1992     F-16 jet crashes at residential district of Hengelo Netherlands (No deaths)
1992     Michael Johnson runs indoor world record 400m (44.97 sec)
1991     UNPO, Unrepresented Nations and People Org forms in Hague
1990     40th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 130-113 at Miami
1990     James "Buster" Douglas KOs Mike Tyson to win heavyweight boxing crown
1990     Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, freed in South Africa
1990     U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
1989     Barbara Clementine Harris consecrated 1st female bishop (Episcopalian)
1989     U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
1988     Anthony M. Kennedy appointed to Supreme Court
1987     British Airways begins trading stocks
1987     England beat Australia 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
1987     Philippines constitution goes into effect
1987     U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986     Activist Anatoly Scharansky released by U.S.S.R., leaves country
1986     Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
1986     Iran begins Fajr-8 offensive against Iraq
1985     Jordan king Hussein and PLO leader Arafat sign accord
1985     Kent Hrbek signs 5-year, $6 million contract with Minnesota Twins
1985     Wasim Akram takes 10 wickets in his 2nd Test Cricket, New Zealand still wins
1984     10th space shuttle mission (41-B)-Challenger 4-returns to Earth
1984     Wayne Gretzky sets NHL short handed season scoring record at 11
1983     "Weird Al" Yankovic records "Ricky" and "Buckingham Blues" debut LP
1983     4th largest snowfall in New York City history (18"(46 cm))
1982     Ozzie Smith for Garry Templeton trade finally goes through
1981     Australia all out 83 vs. India at MCG chasing 143 to win
1981     Polish premier Jozef Pinkowski replaced by Wojciech Jaruzelski
1979     "They're Playing Our Song" opens at Imperial New York City for 1082 performances
1979     43 million watch "Elvis!" on ABC
1979     Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
1979     Iran's premier Bakhtiar resigns, Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power
1979     Musical "They're Playing Our Song," premieres in New York City
1978     16 Unification church couples wed in New York City
1978     25th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin
1978     China lifts a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare, and Dickens
1978     EOKA organization disbands in Cyprus
1977     20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean)
1976     Clifford Alexander, Jr. confirmed as 1st black secretary of Army
1975     Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for Conservative leadership
1974     Dick Woodson is 1st of 48 to invoke baseball's new arbitration rule
1974     Titan-Centaur Test launch fails
1974     1st baseball arbitration Twins pitcher Dick Woodson seeking $29,000 wins, Twins offered $23,000
1973     1st one-day international for Pakistan and New Zealand
1973     1st sub 17-minute 1,500m female free style swim (Shane Gould 16m56.9s)
1973     Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Naples-Lely Golf Classic
1973     Philadelphia 76ers lose their 20th NBA game in a row
1971     Montreal Canadien John Believau scores his 500th NHL goal
1971     U.S., U.K., U.S.S.R., others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons
1970     26.37 cm (10.38") of rainfall, Mount Washington, New Hampshire (state 24-hour rec)
1970     Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite, Osumi, in orbit
1970     John Lennon pays 1,344 pounds fine for 96 protesting South African rugby team playing in Scotland
1969     Diana Crump becomes 1st U.S. woman jockey to ride against men, Hialelah
1969     Dorey Funk, Jr. beats Gene Kiniski in Tampa, to become NWA champ
1968     Israeli-Jordan border fight
1968     Jeffrey Kramer survives 76-m jump, Washington Bridge, Hudson River New York
1968     Madison Square Garden III closes MSG IV opens (New York City)
1966     San Francisco Giant Willie Mays signs highest contract, $130,000 per year
1965     Beatle Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox
1965     Braves propose to pay 5 cents from each ticket to bring a new team to Milwaukee
1964     Beatles 1st live appearance in U.S.; Washington D.C. Coliseum
1964     Greek and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus
1964     Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France
1963     Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album
1963     CIA Domestic Operations Division created
1962     Beatles record "Please, Please Me"
1961     Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black
1961     Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem
1960     Jack Paar walks off his TV show
1959     Vinoo Mankad ends his final Test Cricket (v WI at Delhi)
1958     1st flight with black stewardess, Ruth Carol Taylor, Ithaca New York
1958     Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Minister of Foreign affairs
1958     WTVC TV channel 9 in Chattanooga, Tennessee (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957     KUMV TV channel 8 in Williston, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957     NHL Players Association forms (New York City), Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected president
1954     6th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Donald O'Connor and Eve Arden wins
1953     "Hazel Flagg" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 190 performances
1953     J. Styne/B. Hilliard's musical "Hazel Flagg," premieres in New York City
1953     President Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple
1953     Russia breaks diplomatic relations with Israel
1951     Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana)
1950     "Rag Mop" by The Ames Brothers hit #1
1949     Willie Pep recaptures world featherweight boxing title
1948     Billy Griffith scores cricket century on debut England vs. WI, out for 140
1948     John Costello follows Eamon Da Valera as premier of Ireland
1948     Test Cricket debut of Frank Worrell, vs. England Port-of-Spain
1945     1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey, California
1945     Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill and Stalin
1944     German troops reconquer Aprilia Italy
1944     U-424 sunk off Ireland
1943     General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe
1943     Transport nr 47 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1942     "Archie" comic book debuts
1941     Lieutenant-general Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli
1941     Sicherheitsdienst complains about Dutch anti German sentiments
1938     Steve Casey beats Lou Thesz in Boston, to become wrestling champ
1937     44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint, Michigan ends
1936     Pumping begins to build Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay
1935     -11 degrees F (-24 degrees C), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low)
1935     1st U.S. airplane flight with auto slung beneath fuselage, New York
1932     73 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in February
1929     Eugene O'Neill's "Dynamo," premieres in New York City
1929     Vatican City, world's smallest country, made an enclave of Rome
1928     2nd Winter Olympic games opens in St. Moritz, Switzerland
1927     U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran
1927     U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles
1926     Tokelau (Union) Islands in South Pacific transfers to New Zealand
1922     "April Showers" by Al Jolson hits #1
1922     U.S. intervention army leaves Honduras
1921     Ambassador Theater opens at 215 W 49th St. New York City
1919     Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected president of Germany
1916     Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its 1st concert
1916     Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control
1908     Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory vs England
1908     Heemskerk's government begins in Holland
1907     De Master's Dutch government resigns
1905     James Blackstone, Seattle, bowls 299 -last pin breaks but stands
1905     Pope Pius X publishes encyclical Vehementer nos
1903     Anton Bruckner's 9th Symfonie premieres in Vienna
1902     Police beats up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels
1899     -15 degrees F (-26 degrees C), Washington, D.C. (district record)
1899     -61 degrees F, Montana (record low temperature)
1898     Owen Smith of NC, AME Zion minister, named minister to Liberia
1897     White Rose Mission opens on East 97th Street, New York City
1896     Oscar Wildes "Salom" premieres in Paris
1895     -17 degrees F (-27.2 degrees C) in Braemar, Grampian (UK record)
1895     Georgetown became part of Washington D.C.
1889     Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890
1878     1st U.S. bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms
1878     1st weekly Weather report published in UK
1873     Spanish Cortes fires king Amadeus I
1861     President-elect Lincoln takes train from Spingfield Illinois to Washington D.C.
1861     U.S. House unanimously passes resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state
1858     1st apparition of Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes France
1854     Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time
1852     1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London)
1851     1st cricket 1st-class game in Australia, Tasmania vs. Vic, Launceston
1843     Opera "I Lombardi," premieres in Milan
1840     Gaetano Donizetti's Opera "La Fille du Regiment," premieres in Paris
1837     American Physiological Society organizes in Boston
1826     London University founded
1814     Norway's independence proclaimed
1812     Massachusetts Governor Gerry signs a redistricting bill-1st "gerrymander"
1811     President Madison prohibits trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years
1810     Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria
1809     Robert Fulton patents steamboat
1808     Anthracite coal 1st burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre, Pa
1794     1st session of U.S. Senate open to the public
1793     Prussian troops occupy Venlo, Netherlands
1790     Society of Friends petitions Congress for abolition of slavery
1768     Samuel Adams letter, circulates around American colonies, opposing Townshend Act taxes
1766     Stamp Act declared unconstitutional in Virginia
1752     Pennsylvania Hospital, the 1st hospital in the U.S., opened
1720     Sweden and Prussia sign peace (2nd Treaty of Stockholm)
1638     Dutch countess Louise of Solms marries earl John of Brederode
1575     King Frederick of Denmark offers island of Hveen to Tycho Brahe
1573     1st European, Francis Drake sees the Pacific (from Panama)
1543     Battle at Wayna Daga: Ethiopian/Portugese troops beat Moslem army
1543     Karel/Henry VIII sign anti-French covenant
1531     Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of Church in England
824     St. Paschal I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
385     Oldest Pope elected; Siricius-bishop of Tarragona