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660Feb 11Mythical date of the ascension of Japan’s first emperor, Jimmu Tenno.
641Feb 11Heraclius (~65), emperor of Byzantium (610-641), died.
731Feb 11Pope Gregory II (b.669), born in Rome as Gregorius Sabellus, died.
867Feb 11Theodora, the Saint, beauty queen, Byzantine Empress, died.
1380Feb 11Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist, was born.
1465Feb 11Elizabeth of York, consort of King Henry VII, was born in London.
1482Feb 11Pope Sixtus VI appointed Reverend Dr. Tomas de Torquemada (1420-1498) as the assistant inquisitor. In 1483 he became the Grand Inquisitor of Castile.
1503Feb 11Elizabeth of York (b.1466), consort of King Henry VII, died on 38th birthday.
1531Feb 11Henry VIII was recognized as the supreme head of the Church of England.
1535Feb 11Gregory XIV, Roman Catholic Pope was born.
1573Feb 11Sir Francis Drake 1st saw the Pacific Ocean from Panama.
1650Feb 11Rene 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.”
1657Feb 11Bernard Fontenelle, French scientist, writer (Plurality of Worlds), was born.
1662Feb 11The Prins Willem, built in 1643 as flagship of the Dutch East India Company, sank off Madagascar. A replica, built in the 1980s, burned down at Den Helder in 2009.
1685Feb 11David Teniers III (46), Flemish painter, died.
1752Feb 11Pennsylvania Hospital, the 1st hospital in the US, opened.
1764Feb 11Marie-Joseph de Chenier, French poet (Cajus Graechus), was born.
1766Feb 11The Stamp Act was declared unconstitutional in Virginia.
1768Feb 11A Samuel Adams letter, opposing Townshend Act taxes, was circulated among the American colonies.
1790Feb 11The first petition to Congress for emancipation of the slaves was made by the Society of Friends.
1794Feb 11A session of US Senate was 1st opened to the public.
1800Feb 11William Henry Fox Talbot (d.1877), British inventor and pioneer in instantaneous photography, was born.
1805Feb 11At 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.
1806Feb 11Vicente Martin y Soler (51), composer, died.
1808Feb 11Anthracite coal was 1st burned as fuel, experimentally, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
1809Feb 11Robert Fulton patented the steamboat.
1811Feb 11Pres. Madison prohibited trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years.
1812Feb 11Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge Gerry signed a re-districting law  that favored his party, giving rise to the term “gerrymandering.” His district was shaped like a salamander.
1815Feb 11News of the Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812, finally reached the United States.
1818Feb 11In 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.”
1821Feb 11Auguste Edouard Mariette, French Egyptologist, (dug out Sphinx 12/16/42), was born.
1826Feb 11London University was founded.
1828Feb 11Dewitt Clinton (b.1769), American politician and naturalist. He had served as a US Senator, 2-time governor of New York state and 3-time mayor of NYC.
1833Feb 11Melville Weston Fuller, 8th U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice was born.
1840Feb 11Gaetano Donizetti’s Opera “La Fille du Regiment,” premiered in Paris.
1843Feb 11Giuseppe Verdi’s Opera “I Lombardi,” premiered in Milan.
1847Feb 11American 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.
1852Feb 11The 1st British public female toilet opened at Bedford Street in London.
1854Feb 11Major streets were lit by coal gas for 1st time.
1854Feb 11Commodore Matthew Perry pulled into Edo Bay, Japan, 12 months early with 9 warships to begin talks for a treaty.
1855Feb 11Josephine Marshall Jewell Dodge, American educator, pioneer in the concept of day nurseries for children, was born.
1858Feb 11Bernadette Soubirous (14), a French miller’s daughter, claimed for the first time to have seen a vision of the Virgin Mary near Lourdes.
1861Feb 11President-elect Lincoln departed Springfield, Ill., for Washington.
1861Feb 11The US House unanimously passed a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
1861Feb 11Australian explorers Burke and Wills approached the coast of Carpetaria but were forced to turn back when no path through the coastal marsh was found.
1867Feb 11August W. Messer, German philosopher, educator, psychologist, was born.
1868Feb 11Jean Bernard Leon Foucault (b.1819), French physicist, died. He discovered the 1st physical proof of Earth’s rotation (1851) and invented the gyroscope.
1879Feb 11Honore Daumier (b.1808), French caricaturist, painter, died.
1887Feb 11Ernst “Putzi” Hanfstangl, German politician and confidante of Hitler, NSDAP & American school chum of Roosevelt ), was born.
1888Feb 11In Brazil volunteer police commissioner Joaquin Firmino de Araujo Cunha was murdered in Rio do Peixe, a town which later changed its name to Itapira. The man responsible for the murder was reported to be James Warne, a British-born American doctor and slave owner.
1895Feb 11Georgetown became part of Wash, DC.
1896Feb 11Oscar Wilde’s “Salome,” premiered in Paris.
1898Feb 11Leo Szilard, physicist, instrumental in the Manhattan Project, was born.
1902Feb 11Police beat up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels.
1903Feb 11Anton Bruckner’s 9th Symphony premiered in Vienna.
1903Feb 11Congress passed the Expedition Act, giving antitrust cases priority in the courts.
1904Feb 11President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed strict neutrality for the U.S. in the Russo-Japanese War.
1907Feb 11William J. Levitt, U.S. businessman and community builder, was born. He led the postwar housing revolutions with his Levittowns.
1908Feb 11Phillipe Dunne, screenwriter and director, was born. His films included “How Green Was My Valley.”
1910Feb 11Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Eleanor Alexander announced their wedding date–June 20, 1910. President Theodore Roosevelt signed a bill creating Mesa Verde National Park.
1912Feb 11SF Police Chief White delivered an ultimatum to the Chinese Consul General, Ow Young King, and two secretaries of the Chinese Six companies that they establish peace between the warring tongs or he would blockade white from entering Chinatown.
1912Feb 11Rudolf Firkusny (d.1954), classical pianist (Julliard), was born in Napajedla, Czechoslovakia.
1912Feb 11Roy Fuller, poet and novelist, was born.
   
1916Feb 11Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presented its 1st concert.
1916Feb 11Emma Goldman was arrested for lecturing on birth control.
1917Feb 11Sidney Sheldon, novelist was born.
1919Feb 11Eva Gabor (d.1995), actress, was born in Budapest, Hungary.
1920Feb 11Farouk I, last King of Egypt (1936-52), was born in Cairo.
1922Feb 11“April Showers” by Al Jolson hit #1.
1922Feb 11US “intervention army” left Honduras.
1925Feb 11Virginia E. Johnson, doctor, sexologist (Masters & Johnson), was born.
1926Feb 11Paul Bocuse, French chef (Legion of Honor), was born.
1926Feb 11The Mexican government nationalized all church property. Pres. 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.
1929Feb 11The Lateran Treaty was signed, with Italy recognizing the independence and sovereignty of Vatican City. The Italian government, under dictator Benito Mussolini, paid the Vatican $91.7 million for the papal lands it seized in 1870. The Italian state agreed to supply water but the disposal of waste was not specified. This became a big issue in 1999.
1931Feb 11Charles Algernon Parsons (76), British inventor (steam turbine), died.
1933Feb 11Pres. Hoover declared Death Valley a national monument.
1934Feb 11Mary Quant, fashion designer (Chelsea Look, Mod Look), was born in Kent, England.
1936Feb 11Burt Reynolds, actor (Evening Shade, Strip Tease, Cannonball Run), was born in Michigan.
1936Feb 11Pumping began for the creation of Treasure Island in SF Bay.
1936Feb 11The 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.
1937Feb 11In 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.
1938Feb 11The 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.
1939Feb 11The Negrin government returned to Madrid, Spain.
1939Feb 11Franz Schmidt (64), Austrian composer, died.
1941Feb 11Lt-Gen Erwin Rommel arrived in Tripoli.
1942Feb 11The 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.
1943Feb 11General Eisenhower was selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
1943Feb 11Transport # 47 departed with French Jews to Nazi Germany.
1944Feb 11U-424 sank off Ireland.
1945Feb 11President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin signed the Yalta Agreement during World War II and adjourned.
1945Feb 11The 1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane was flight tested, at Downey, Ca.
1948Feb 11Sergei 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.”
1951Feb 11Kwame Nkrumah won the 1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana).
1951Feb 11U.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.
1953Feb 11Walt Disney’s “Peter Pan” premiered. [See Feb 5] )
1953Feb 11President Eisenhower refused a clemency appeal for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
1954Feb 11A 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.
1955Feb 11Nationalist Chinese completed the evacuation of the Tachen Islands.
1959Feb 11Iran turned down Soviet aid in favor of a U.S. proposal for aid.
1960Feb 11Jack Paar walked off his TV show.
   
1963Feb 11A CIA Domestic Operations Division was created.
1964Feb 11Sarah 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.
1964Feb 11The Beatles 1st live appearance in US was in the Washington,  DC Coliseum. It was filmed by CBS.
1964Feb 11Cambodian Prince Sihanouk blamed the U.S. for a South Vietnamese air raid on a village in his country.
1965Feb 11Pres. 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.
1966Feb 11Vice President Hubert Humphrey began a tour of Vietnam.
1969Feb 11A Lockheed SP2E Neptune crashed in the Santa Ana Mountains of Orange County, Ca., while on night training. 7 seamen were killed.
   
1970Feb 11Japan 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.
1971Feb 11Pres. Nixon issued Executive Order 11582 dealing with holidays given to federal employees.
1971Feb 11John Connally (1917-1993) replaced David Kennedy as Treasury Secretary under Richard Nixon. He instituted a 10% surcharge on imports and repudiated fixed exchange rates.
1971Feb 11In SF Officer Charles Lagasa was killed in an accidental helicopter crash at Lake Merced.
1971Feb 11Whitney Young Jr. (b.1921), National Urban League director, drowned in Nigeria.
1972Feb 11McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. and Life magazine canceled plans to publish what turned out to be a fake autobiography of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes.
1974Feb 11Communist-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.
1975Feb 11Margaret 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.
1976Feb 11Lee J. Cobb (b.1911), actor (12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront), died.
1977Feb 11A 20.2-kg lobster was caught off Nova Scotia. This was the heaviest known crustacean to date.
1979Feb 11In NYC “They’re Playing Our Song” opened at the Imperial Theater and played for 1082 performances.
1979Feb 11Followers 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.
1984Feb 11Mohammad Maqbool Butt, founder of the pro-independence Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), was hanged in New Delhi’s Tihar jail for the murder of intelligence officer Ravindra Hareshwa Mhatre. In 2004 Mohammed Aslam (49) was charged with the kidnap, false imprisonment and murder of Mhatre.
1985Feb 11Jordan’s King Hussein and PLO leader Arafat signed an accord.
1986Feb 11Activist Anatoly Scharansky was released by USSR, and left the country after nine years of captivity as part of an East-West prisoner exchange.
1986Feb 11Frank Patrick Herbert (b.1920), sci-fi author (Dune, 1965), died of cancer in Wisconsin.
   
1987Feb 11Peggy 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.
1988Feb 11President 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.
1988Feb 11Iran launched a campaign to retake the Fao Peninsula from Iraq with US planning assistance. Chemical weapons were used in the attack.
1989Feb 11Reverend Barbara C. Harris became the first woman consecrated as a bishop in the Episcopal Church, in a ceremony held in Boston.
1990Feb 11In a stunning upset, heavyweight champion Mike Tyson was knocked out in the 10th round of his fight with Buster Douglas in Tokyo.
1990Feb 11Nelson Mandela was released from South Africa’s Victor Verster prison after being detained for 27 years as a political prisoner fighting against Apartheid.
1991Feb 11The 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.
1991Feb 11Oscar Nitzchke (90), German architect, died in Paris. His buildings included the UN headquarters in New York, the Los Angeles Opera House.
1992Feb 11US 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.
1993Feb 11President 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.
1994Feb 11President Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa, meeting at the White House, failed to resolve key differences on trade.
1994Feb 11Actor William Conrad died in Los Angeles at age 73.
1995Feb 11The space shuttle Discovery landed at Cape Canaveral, Fla., ending a historic rendezvous mission with Russia’s Mir space station.
1996Feb 11Tamil politicians in Sri Lanka charged that government troops killed 24 civilians in the eastern district of Trincomalee.
1997Feb 11Bosnian Croats evicted 26 Muslim families from the Croat half of the city of Mostar.
1998Feb 11KVBC-FM (Las Vegas) offered Monica Lewinsky $5M for an interview.
1998Feb 11Ben 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.
   
1999Feb 11US jets struck 7 Iraqi air defense sites.
1999Feb 11On 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.
1999Feb 11In India a private army of upper-caste landlords shot and killed 12 low-caste villagers in Bihar.
2000Feb 11In 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.
2000Feb 11The space shuttle Endeavour lifted into orbit with a crew of six under commander Kevin Kregel and a mission to map the Earth.
2001Feb 11Two space commanders opened the door to Destiny, the American-made science laboratory attached the day before to the international space station.
2002Feb 11In Afghanistan opium vendors shut down in Kandahar under US military orders.
2003Feb 11Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said that Pres. Bush’s tax cut would increase the federal budget deficits and voiced opposition.
2003   Feb 11Addressing 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. 
2003Feb 11Israeli 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.
2004Feb 11Israeli 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.
2005Feb 11Defense 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.
2005Feb 11Kashmir 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.
2006Feb 11Dubai 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.
2006Feb 11American Chad Hedrick won the 5,000 meters in speedskating at the Olympics in Turin, Italy.
2006Feb 11It 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.
2007Feb 11In 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.
   
2007Feb 11Indian 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.
2008Feb 11A 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. Dongfan Chung, a longtime aerospace worker in Southern California, was indicted for allegedly passing classified documents to China in an elaborate espionage endeavor that spanned two decades and exposed trade secrets from the space shuttle, the Delta IV rocket and the C-17 military transport aircraft. In 2010 Chung was sentenced to over 15 years in prison.
2008Feb 11It 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.
2008Feb 11In 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.
2009Feb 11BrightSource Energy of Oakland, California, announced that it will sell southern California Edison 1,300 megawatts of electricity from 7 large solar plants planned for the California desert. This was believed to be the world’s largest solar deal to date. In September BrightSource said it had ceased plans for a solar plant at Broadwell Dry Lake in the Mojave desert.
2010Feb 11In the Antarctic Ocean Sea Shepherd protesters shot butyric acid, produced from stinking rancid butter, at Japanese whalers to try to disrupt the annual whale hunt. The activists maintained that butyric acid is nontoxic.
2010Feb 11Italy’s Fiat SpA and Russian automobile company Sollers announced a euro2.4 billion ($3.3 billion) joint venture to produce up to 500,000 vehicles per year in Russia in a bid to become the country’s second-largest car maker.
2011Feb 11Bahrain state news agency BNA said the king has ordered that each family in the tiny Gulf monarchy be given $3,000 to mark the 10th anniversary of a national charter for reforms.
2011Feb 11Finland’s Nokia corp. announced plans to make Microsoft Windows its primary software in the competition for smart-phone customers.
2012Feb 11Britain’s biggest-selling tabloid newspaper, The Sun, was fighting to contain the damage after five of its employees were arrested in an inquiry into the alleged payment of bribes to police and other officials. A 39-year-old female employee at Britain’s defense ministry, a 36-year-old male member of the armed forces and a 39-year-old serving police officer with Surrey Police, were also arrested in an early morning raid.
   
2012Feb 11In Pakistan the 5-member Haqqani network leadership council distributed a pamphlet ordering militants not to stage rocket or bomb attacks in North Waziristan due to an agreement with the Pakistani government. The Pakistani military has never publicly acknowledged a peace agreement with militants in North Waziristan.
2013Feb 11In Florida former state Republican Party chairman Jim Greer (50) pleaded guilty to theft and money laundering just before jury selection was to begin in his criminal trial.
2013Feb 11Syrian rebels captured the Furat dam, the country’s largest dam, after days of intense clashes, giving them control over water and electricity supplies for much of the country in a major blow to President Assad’s regime. UN human rights chief Navi Pillay said the number of people killed in Syria is probably now approaching 70,000.
2013Feb 11In Turkey a car bomb exploded at the Bab al-Hawa frontier post along Syria’s border, killing 14 people. A Syrian opposition faction later accused the Syrian government of the bombing, saying it narrowly missed 13 leaders of the group. On March 11 Turkey’s police said five suspects have been detained.
 2014Feb 11In Tanzania the UN-backed court for Rwanda acquitted on appeal former paramilitary police chief Augustin Ndindiliyimana and ex-elite battalion commander Francois-Xavier Nzuwonemeye of charges related to the 1994 genocide.
   
2014Feb 11In central Ukraine Oleksandr Lobodenko (34), a judge who placed several anti-government protesters under house arrest, was murdered overnight in Kremenchuk.
2014Feb 11In western Venezuela armed pro-government groups attacked and shot at people protesting against President Nicolas Maduro’s government, injuring five.
2014Feb 11In Yemen northern Shiite rebels and a faction demanding southern autonomy rejected a six-region federation plan for Yemen, agreed by parties during the “national dialogue” aimed at securing the country’s political transition.
2014Feb 11In Yemen a British teacher was abducted on his way from an educational institute in Sanaa and reportedly taken to Marib.
   
Credit: Timelines of History 

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