February 11: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1531 - Henry VIII of England is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.
2. 1752 - Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the United States, is opened by Benjamin Franklin.
3. 1790 - The Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, petitions U.S. Congressfor abolition of slavery.
4. 1794 - First session of United States Senate open to the public.
5. 1861 - American Civil War: United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
6. 1938 - BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
7. 1943 - World War II: General Dwight D. Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
8. 1973 - Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place.
9. 1978 - Censorship: China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.
10. 1990 - Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.
11. Famous Birthdays: Henry Fox Talbot (English photographer, invented the calotype), Jean Baptiste Charbonneau (American explorer), Auguste Mariette (French archaeologist), Josiah Willard Gibbs (American physicist), Thomas Edison (American businessman, invented the light bulb and phonograph)

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