On This Day
11 February
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1933 Gandhiji started the publication of weekly Harijan to promote anti-untouchability campaign. The first issue came out from Bombay on this day.
- 1942 Jamnalal Bajaj, industrialist who founded the Bajaj Group of companies in the 1920s, died. He took part in the freedom struggle and was a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.
- 1977 Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, lawyer and politician who served as the fifth president of India from 1974 to 1977, died. He was the second President of India to die in office.
- 1979 The Cellular Jail situated at Andaman Nicobar Islands, was declared declared a National Memorial by the then Prime Minister of India, Morarji Desai. Presently, it is a 500-bed hospital with about 40 doctors serving the local population.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 0055 Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman Emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome. This clears the way for Nero to become Emperor.
- 0660 Traditional date for the founding of Japan. According to legend, Emperor Jimmu (grandson of Amaterasu) founded a kingdom in central Japan, beginning a continuous imperial line.
- 1650 René Descartes, French philosopher, mathematician and scientist who invented analytic geometry, linking the previously separate fields of geometry and algebra, died. He is perhaps best known for the famous phrase “I think, therefore I am.”
- 1800 William Henry Fox Talbot, English scientist, inventor and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries, was born. He produced the first book with photographic illustrations called The Pencil of Nature.
- 1847 American inventor Thomas Edison, who, singly or jointly, held a world record of 1,093 patents and who played a critical role in introducing the modern age of electricity, was born.
- 1917 Sidney Sheldon, American writer, director and producer, was born.
- 1942 Archie comic book debuts.
- 1945 The meeting of President Franklin Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Marshal Joseph Stalin in Yalta, adjourned. It was agreed that after Germany's unconditional surrender, it would be divided into four post-war occupation zones, controlled by US, British, French and Soviet military forces.
- 1970 Japan became the fourth country to put a satellite into orbit.
- 1990 Nelson Mandela, the leader of the movement to end South African apartheid was released from prison after 27 years.
- 2006 Peter Benchley, American author, screenwriter and ocean activist, died. He is known for his bestselling novel Jaws.
- 2020 Snow falls in Baghdad, Iraq, for only the second time in a century. First time was in 2008.
- 2021 World's second oldest person French nun Sister Andre celebrates her 117th birthday after surviving COVID-19 in Toulon, France.
- ⭐ Significance
- International Day of Women and Girls in Science is an annual observance adopted by the United Nations General Assembly to promote the full and equal access and participation of females in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics fields.
- Safer Internet Day is observed every year on the second week Tuesday of February with an aim to provide safer and better internet, where every user gets to use the internet responsibly and without getting their data leaked. It is celebrated worldwide to encourage the safe and constructive use of digital technology for youngsters, and to stir the usage of technology dutifully, courteously, and critically.
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