February 11<\/p>\n
55 \u2013 On the eve of his coming of age, the mysterious death of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman empire, clears the way for Nero Claudius Caesar Germanicus\u00a0to become Emperor.<\/p>\n
1534 \u2013 Henry VIII of England is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.<\/p>\n
1586 \u2013 Sir Francis Drake with an English force captures and occupies the Spanish colonial port of Cartagena de Indias, on the northern coast of modern Columbia for two months until a ransom is paid.<\/p>\n
1650 \u2013 Ren\u00e9 Descartes, French mathematician and philosopher, author of Cogito Ergo Sum<\/em> ( I think, therefore I am) dies in Stockholm, Sweden.<\/p>\n 1794 \u2013 The United States Senate opens sessions to the public.<\/p>\n 1808 \u2013 Jesse Fell of Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania, burns anthracite on an open grate as an experiment in heating homes with coal.<\/p>\n 1858 \u2013 Bernadette Soubirous has her first vision of Mary in Lourdes, France.<\/p>\n 1861 \u2013 In an attempt to stop further secession and avert possible conflict with the newly formed Confederacy, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.<\/p>\n 1937 \u2013 The Flint Michigan Autoworkers strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers trade union.<\/p>\n 1953 \u2013 President Eisenhower denies all appeals for clemency for the Soviet spies, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg who have been sentenced to death in the electric chair in New York. Documents uncovered after the fall of the Soviet Union later confirm their espionage for the Soviets.<\/p>\n 1979 \u2013 The Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.<\/p>\n 1991 \u2013 Over Iraq, USAF Captains Steve Dingee and Mark McKenzie flying F-15s share a 1\/2 victory apiece for them both shooting down an Iraqi Mil Mi-8 helicopter at the same time.<\/p>\n 1997 \u2013 Space Shuttle Discovery<\/em> is launched on mission STS-82 to service the Hubble Space Telescope.<\/p>\n 2011 \u2013 The first wave of the Egyptian revolution results in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 17 days of protests.<\/p>\n 2017 \u2013 North Korea test fires the ballistic missile Pukkuksong-2<\/em> across the Sea of Japan.<\/p>\n 2020 \u2013\u00a0 The World Health Organization officially names the coronavirus outbreak as COVID-19, with the virus being designated SARS-CoV-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February 11 55 \u2013 On the eve of his coming of age, the mysterious death of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman empire, clears the way for Nero Claudius Caesar Germanicus\u00a0to become Emperor. 1534 \u2013 Henry VIII of England is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England. 1586 \u2013 Sir Francis … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64704"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89961,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64704\/revisions\/89961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}