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February 11th, 2008 (February 11 2008) | Event | In East Timor, assassination attempts were made on Xanana Gusmao and Jose Ramos-Horta. Both failed. | |
February 11th, 2008 (February 11 2008) | Death | Tom Lantos, member of the United States House of Representatives (born in 1928) | Tom Lantos Quotes |
February 11th, 2008 (February 11 2008) | Death | Frank Piasecki, American aeronautical designer (born in 1919) | |
February 11th, 1978 (February 11 1978) | Event | Censorship: the People s Republic of China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, Shakespeare and Dickens. | Aristotle Quotes |
February 11th, 1978 (February 11 1978) | Death | James B Conant, American chemist and university president (born in 1893) | |
February 11th, 1978 (February 11 1978) | Death | Harry Martinson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (born in 1904) | |
February 11th, 1968 (February 11 1968) | Event | Israeli-Jordanian border clashes. | |
February 11th, 1968 (February 11 1968) | Death | Howard Lindsay, American playwright (born in 1888) | |
February 11th, 1958 (February 11 1958) | Death | Ernest Jones, British psychonanalyst (born in 1879) | |
February 11th, 1948 (February 11 1948) | Event | John Costello succeeds Eamon de Valera as Taoiseach of Ireland. | |
February 11th, 1948 (February 11 1948) | Death | Sergei Eisenstein, Latvian film director (born in 1898) | |
February 11th, 1938 (February 11 1938) | Event | BBC Television produces the world s first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R.U.R., which coined the term "robot". | Karel Capek Quotes |
February 11th, 1938 (February 11 1938) | Birth | Bevan Congdon, New Zealand cricketer | |
February 11th, 1938 (February 11 1938) | Birth | Simone de Oliveira, Portuguese actress | |
February 11th, 1938 (February 11 1938) | Birth | Manuel Noriega, Panamanian general | |
February 11th, 1938 (February 11 1938) | Birth | Bobby "Boris" Pickett, American singer and songwriter (died in 2007) | |
February 11th, 1908 (February 11 1908) | Birth | Philip Dunne, American screenwriter, director and producer (died in 1992) | |
February 11th, 1908 (February 11 1908) | Birth | Vivian Ernest Fuchs, English geologist (died in 1999) | |
February 11th, 1898 (February 11 1898) | Birth | Leo Szilard, Hungarian-born physicist (died in 1964) | Leo Szilard Quotes |
February 11th, 1868 (February 11 1868) | Death | Leon Foucault, French astronomer (born in 1819) | |
February 11th, 1858 (February 11 1858) | Event | The Blessed Virgin Mary reputedly appears to Saint Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes. | |
February 11th, 1808 (February 11 1808) | Event | Anthracite coal is first burned as fuel, experimentally. | |
February 11th, 1568 (February 11 1568) | Birth | Honore d Urfe, French writer (died in 1625) | |