11 Februar

The **11t o Februar** is the 42nt day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 323 days ti come (324 in lowp years).

## Events

*660 - Tradeetional foondin date o Japan.
*1873 - The first Spaingie Republic is declared.
*1889 - Japan's Meiji Constitution is adoptit.
*1919 - Friedrich Ebert is electit Preses o Germany.
*1929 - Vatican Ceety is created as an independent state, through the Lateran Treaty.
*1975 - Margaret Thatcher becomes leader o the Breetish Conservative Pairty.
*1979 - Iran: Establishment o an Islamic Theocracy unner Ayatollah Khomeini.
*1990 - Nelson Mandela is released follaein o'er 27 year in prison.
*1992 - Albert Reynolds becomes Taoiseach (Prime meenister) o the Republic o Ireland.
*1999 - Pluto muives ootside the orbit o Neptune.
*2011 − Arab Ware protests: Egyptian Preses Hosni Mubarak resigns in favour o the Supreme Cooncil o the Airmed Forces.
*2013 - Pape Benedict XVI announces his resignation, effective frae the 28 Februar.
*2016 - Announcement o the discovery o gravitational waves, as predicitit bi Albert Einstein's General Theory o Relativity.
*2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: The Novel Coronavirus is gien the name COVID-19.

## Births

*1466 - Elizabeth o York, Queen Consort o Ingland (d. 1503)
*1535 - Pape Gregory XIV (d. 1591)
*1651 - Anne Scott, 1st Duchess o Buccleuch, Scots peer (d. 1732)
*1776 - Ioannis Kapodistrias, Greek statesman (d. 1831)
*1787 - Alexander Maconochie, Scots naval afficer, geografer an penal reformer (d. 1860)
*1847 - Thomas Edison, American inventor (d. 1931)
*1884 - Joseph Westwood, Scots politeecian (d. 1948)
*1898 - Leo Szilard, Hungarian-American pheesicist an inventor (d. 1964)
*1920 - King Farouk o Egyp (d. 1965)
*1921 - Jacques Friedel, French scientist (d. 2014)
*1926 - Leslie Nielsen, Canadian-American actor (d. 2010)
*1934 - John Surtees, Inglis racin driver (d. 2017)
*1934 - Manuel Noriega, umwhile militar leader o Panama (d. 2017)
*1936 - Burt Reynolds, American actor (d. 2018)
*1947 - Yukio Hatoyama, Japanese politeecian
*1947 − Derek Shulman, Breetish muisicker
*1953 - Jeb Bush, American politeecian
*1964 - Sarah Palin, American politeecian
*1969 - Jennifer Aniston, American actress
*1981 - Kelly Rowland, American sangster
*1983 - Rafael van der Vaart, Dutch fitbawer
*1992 - Taylor Lautner, American actor
*1996 - Daniil Medvedev, Roushie tennis player

## Daiths
*244 - Gordian III, Roman Emperor (b. 225)
*1503 - Elizabeth o York, Queen Consort o Ingland (b. 1466)
*1650 – René Descartes, French mathemateecian (b. 1596)
*1884 - John Hutton Balfour, Scots botanist (b. 1808)
*1940 – John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scots politeecian an author (b. 1875)
*1948 - Sergei Eisenstein, Roushie film director (b. 1898)
*1963 - Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist an short story writer (b. 1932)
*1978 - Harry Martinson, Swadish writer (b. 1904)
*2012 - Whitney Houston, American sangster an actress (b. 1963)
*2014 - Alice Babs, Swadish sangster an actress (b. 1924)
*2019 - Alix, Princess o Ligne (b. 1929)

## Halidays
* Foundation Day (Japan)
* Victory o the Revolution (Iran)
* Inventors' Day (Unitit States)
* Youth Day (Cameroon)
* Airmed Forces Day (Liberie)
* Oor Lady o Lourdes (Roman Catholic kirk)