February 11 in History
1753
February 11, 1753:The Pennsylvania Hospital admits its first batch of patients.
1858
February 11, 1858:Bernadette Soubirous, a 14-year-old girl witnesses her first Marian apparition in Lourdes, France.
1929
February 11, 1929:The Vatican’s Pietro Gasparri and Italy’s Benito Mussolini sign the Lateran Treaty to officially recognize the sovereignty of the papacy over Vatican City.
1949
February 11, 1949:“Lovesick Blues”, a song by Hank Williams is released by MGM.
1975
February 11, 1975:Margaret Thatcher is elected as the UK’s Conservative Party’s leader.
1989
February 11, 1989:The Protestant Episcopal Church’s Reverend Barbara Clementine Harris becomes the first woman to be ordained a bishop of an apostolic-succession church.
1990
February 11, 1990:South Africa’s Nelson Mandela becomes a free man after spending 27 years in prison.
2011
February 11, 2011:The Arab Spring in Egypt achieves results when President Hosni Mubarak finally steps down, having ruled for close to three decades.
2016
February 11, 2016:PBS and CNN broadcast the sixth Democratic Presidential candidate debate.
2020
February 11, 2020:The World Health Organisation formally names the new infection, which is gradually taking the world by storm, as Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).