11th February anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1833
  • United States
  • "Birth of Melville Weston Fuller, 8th Chief Justice of the United States ."
  • 1907
  • Great Britain
  • "EW (Jim) Swanton born 1907 (died 2002). Cricket correspondent of The Daily Telegraph, 1946-75. He published more than eight million words on cricket alone."
  • 1908
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Vivian Fuchs, British geologist and Antarctic explorer"
  • 1909
  • United States
  • "Birth of Max Baer, American world heavyweight boxing champion & actor"
  • 1909
  • United States
  • "Birth of Joseph Mankiewicz, American film director, producer and writer"
  • 1944
  • Great Britain
  • Martin Drew Jazz drummer born
• event
  • 1793
  • Britain declares war on France (1793-1802)
  • 1808
  • Anthracite was first burned as a fuel
  • 1809
  • United States
  • American engineer and inventor Robert Fulton patented the steamboat
  • 1858
  • France
  • "Bernadette Soubirous saw a vision of the Virgin Mary in Lourdes, France"
  • 1929
  • Italy
  • "Italy and the Vatican signed the Lateran Treaty, which recognised the Vatican Citys independence and sovereignty"
  • 1975
  • Great Britain
  • Margaret Thatcher becomes leader of Conservative party (in opposition)
  • 1990
  • South Africa
  • Nelson Mandela released in South Africa
• Death