February 11

Today in History
• 1531 - Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of Church in England
• 1543 - Roman Emperor Charles V and English King Henry VIII sign anti-French covenant
• 1573 - 1st European, Francis Drake sees the Pacific (from Panama)
• 1752 - The Pennsylvania Hospital opened as the very first hospital in America
• 1794 - 1st session of U.S. Senate open to the public
• 1808 - Anthracite coal 1st burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre, Pa
• 1858 - First vision of the Virgin Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes, France
• 1809 - Robert Fulton patents steamboat


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Armed Forces Day
• Islamic Revolution Day
• National Emergency Number Day
• National Foundation Day
• National Inventors' Day
• White T Shirt Day
• World Day of the Sick
• Youth Day Cameroon

Birthdays
• 1465 - Elizabeth of York, Queen Consort of England and wife of King Henry VII
• 1535 - Gregory XIV, Niccolo Sfondrati, Roman Catholic pope
• 1725 - Louis Mandrin, smuggler considered the French Robin Hood
• 1800 - William Henry Fox Talbot, English photographic pioneer
• 1833 - Melville Fuller, American 8th chief justice
• 1847 - Thomas Edison, American inventor (lightbulb, phonograph, motion picture camera)
• 1898 - Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-German-American nuclear physicist (Manhattan Project)
• 1904 - Keith Holyoake, 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand