February 11
1805 - Lewis and Clark's Shoshone guide, Sacajawea, gave birth to a son, Jean Baptiste.
1809 - Robert Fulton received a patent for his steamboat.
1847 - American inventor Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio.
1858 - St. Bernadette of Lourdes first saw a vision of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes, France, leading to the foundation of the shrine of Lourdes.
1929 - The Lateran Treaty was signed, signaling Italy's recognition of the independence and sovereignty of the Vatican City.
1937 - A six-week-old sit-down strike against General Motors ended, with the company agreeing to recognize and negotiate with the United Auto Workers union.
1945 - The Yalta Agreement was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin during World War II, in which Stalin agreed to declare war against Imperial Japan following Nazi Germany's capitulation.
1970 - Japan became the world's fourth nation to place a satellite into orbit.
1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini's followers sized control of the government of Iran.
1989 - The Episcopal Church's Boston diocese consecrated Barbara Harris as the church's first female bishop.
1990 - South African resistance leader Nelson Mandela was released from prison after 27 years.
2008 - The Pentagon charged Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and five other detainees at Guantanamo Bay with murder and war crimes in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks.
2011 - As a result of the "Arab Spring" protests, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak announces his resignation and hands over power of the country to the military.
2012 - Pop superstar Whitney Houston was found dead at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles at age 48, one night before the Grammy Awards ceremony.
2013 - During a routine morning meeting of Vatican cardinals, Pope Benedict XVI announced he would resign as pope effective February 28; it was the first papal resignation in nearly 600 years.
2020 - The World Health Organization gave the official name of COVID-19 to the disease caused by the coronavirus that had emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
Birthdays
28 - Rose Park (singer)
33 - Taylor Lautner (actor)
35 - Q'orianka Kilcher (actress)
41 - Aubrey O'Day (singer)
43 - Natalie Dormer (actress)
44 - Kelly Rowland (singer)
45 - Matthew Lawrence (actor)
46 - Brandy (singer)
49 - Brice Beckham (actor)
51 - D'Angelo (singer)
54 - Damian Lewis (actor)
56 - Jennifer Aniston (actress)
63 - Sheryl Crow (singer)
69 - Catherine Hickland (actress)
91 - Tina Louise (actress)
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Today in Sports History - February 11
1922 - The Toronto St. Patricks and the Ottawa Senators recorded the first tie game in NHL history.
1966 - Willie Mays became the highest paid player in baseball. He signed a two-year contract with the San Francisco Giants for $130,000 a year.
1971 - Jean Beliveau (Montreal Canadiens) scored his 500th career goal.
1990 - In one of the biggest upsets in sports history, 42-1 underdog Buster Douglas knocked out the previously undefeated heavyweight champion Mike Tyson at Japan’s Tokyo Dome.
2003 - Mike Modano of the Dallas Stars became only the second American-born NHL player to play in 1,000 games with the same team. All of Modano's games had come with the Minnesota North Stars and Dallas Stars. Brian Leetch (New York Rangers) was the first American-born player to play in 1,000 NHL games.
2024 - The Kansas City Chiefs defeat the San Francisco 49ers 25-22 in overtime to win Super Bowl LVIII. The game was the most watched event in U.S. history, with an average of 123.4 million viewers across television and streaming platforms.
1805 - Lewis and Clark's Shoshone guide, Sacajawea, gave birth to a son, Jean Baptiste.
1809 - Robert Fulton received a patent for his steamboat.
1847 - American inventor Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio.
1858 - St. Bernadette of Lourdes first saw a vision of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes, France, leading to the foundation of the shrine of Lourdes.
1929 - The Lateran Treaty was signed, signaling Italy's recognition of the independence and sovereignty of the Vatican City.
1937 - A six-week-old sit-down strike against General Motors ended, with the company agreeing to recognize and negotiate with the United Auto Workers union.
1945 - The Yalta Agreement was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin during World War II, in which Stalin agreed to declare war against Imperial Japan following Nazi Germany's capitulation.
1970 - Japan became the world's fourth nation to place a satellite into orbit.
1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini's followers sized control of the government of Iran.
1989 - The Episcopal Church's Boston diocese consecrated Barbara Harris as the church's first female bishop.
1990 - South African resistance leader Nelson Mandela was released from prison after 27 years.
2008 - The Pentagon charged Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and five other detainees at Guantanamo Bay with murder and war crimes in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks.
2011 - As a result of the "Arab Spring" protests, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak announces his resignation and hands over power of the country to the military.
2012 - Pop superstar Whitney Houston was found dead at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles at age 48, one night before the Grammy Awards ceremony.
2013 - During a routine morning meeting of Vatican cardinals, Pope Benedict XVI announced he would resign as pope effective February 28; it was the first papal resignation in nearly 600 years.
2020 - The World Health Organization gave the official name of COVID-19 to the disease caused by the coronavirus that had emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
Birthdays
28 - Rose Park (singer)
33 - Taylor Lautner (actor)
35 - Q'orianka Kilcher (actress)
41 - Aubrey O'Day (singer)
43 - Natalie Dormer (actress)
44 - Kelly Rowland (singer)
45 - Matthew Lawrence (actor)
46 - Brandy (singer)
49 - Brice Beckham (actor)
51 - D'Angelo (singer)
54 - Damian Lewis (actor)
56 - Jennifer Aniston (actress)
63 - Sheryl Crow (singer)
69 - Catherine Hickland (actress)
91 - Tina Louise (actress)
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Today in Sports History - February 11
1922 - The Toronto St. Patricks and the Ottawa Senators recorded the first tie game in NHL history.
1966 - Willie Mays became the highest paid player in baseball. He signed a two-year contract with the San Francisco Giants for $130,000 a year.
1971 - Jean Beliveau (Montreal Canadiens) scored his 500th career goal.
1990 - In one of the biggest upsets in sports history, 42-1 underdog Buster Douglas knocked out the previously undefeated heavyweight champion Mike Tyson at Japan’s Tokyo Dome.
2003 - Mike Modano of the Dallas Stars became only the second American-born NHL player to play in 1,000 games with the same team. All of Modano's games had come with the Minnesota North Stars and Dallas Stars. Brian Leetch (New York Rangers) was the first American-born player to play in 1,000 NHL games.
2024 - The Kansas City Chiefs defeat the San Francisco 49ers 25-22 in overtime to win Super Bowl LVIII. The game was the most watched event in U.S. history, with an average of 123.4 million viewers across television and streaming platforms.
