Today is Tuesday, February eleventh, the forty second day of 2025. There are still 323 days a 12 months.
Today in history:
On February 11, 1990, the South African anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela was released after 27 years of prison. (Mandela could be elected President of South Africa 4 years later.)
Also on this date:
In 1847 the American inventor Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio.
In 1945, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the Soviet leader Josef Stalin signed the Yalta Agreement, during which Stalin declared war against the imperial Japan after the give up of Nazi Germany.
In 1975 Margaret Thatcher was elected leader of the British opposition conservative party.
In 1990, 42: 1 outsider Buster Douglas struck Mike Tyson in Japan's Tokyo Dome in one among the best excitement in sports history.
In 2008, the Pentagon Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (Hah'-Leed Shayk Moh-Hah'-Med) and five other prisoners in Guantanamo Bay accused Murder and War Crimes related to the attacks on September 11.
In 2011, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned after protest democratic protests and ended three many years of authoritarian rule.
In 2012, the superstar Whitney Houston was found dead in a tub in Beverly Hills, California, on the eve of the Grammy Awards. She was 48.
During a routine morning meeting of the Vatican In 2013, Pope Benedict XVI. Known that he’ll effectively step down as a Pope on February twenty eighth. It was the primary papal resignation in almost 600 years.
In 2020, the World Health Organization gave the official name of Covid-19 of the disease attributable to the Coronavirus, which was created within the Chinese city of Wuhan.
Today's birthdays:
- Actor Tina Louise is 91.
- Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is 72.
- Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., IS 63.
- Musician Sheryl Crow is 63.
- Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is 61.
- Actor Jennifer Aniston is 56.
- Actor Damian Lewis is 54.
- Surfer Kelly Slater is 53.
- Musician d'Angelo is 51.
- Singer-actor brandy is 46.
- Singer Kelly Rowland is 44.
- Actor Natalie Dormer is 43.
- Actor Taylor Lautner is 33.
- Singer songwriter Khalid is 27.
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