Page 7: Historical Events In February - 11

1941  1st Gold record presented (Glenn Miller-Chattanooga Choo Choo).   

1941  Rudolf Hilferding, Germ economist/Min of Finance (SPD), suicide at 63   

1942  "Archie" comic book debuts   

1942  On this day, the German battleships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, as well as the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, escape from the French port of Brest and make a mad dash up the English Channel to safety in German waters. Very embarrassing for the Royal Navy   

1943  General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe   

1943  Ottawa imposes severe wartime gasoline rationing of 10 gallons a month for every private car.   

1943  Transport nr 47 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany.   

1944  German troops re-conquer Aprilia Italy   

1944  U-424 sunk off Ireland   

1944  German troops reconquer Aprilia Italy.   

1944  Ivan Sollertinski, friend of Russian composer D Sjostakovitsj, dies.   

1945  inaugural gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey CA.   

1945  U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Russian leader Josef Stalin sign the Yalta Agreement during WWII   

1945  Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill and Stalin   

1945  1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey, CA.   

1945  Al Dubin, Swiss songwriter (Tiptoe Thru The Tulips), dies at 53   

1948  Billy Griffith scores cricket century on debut England vs West Indies, out for 140.   

1948  John Costello follows Eamon Da Valera as premier of Ireland.   

1948  Test Cricket debut of Frank Worrell, vs England Port-of-Spain.   

1948  Billy Griffith scores cricket century on debut Eng v WI, out for 140.   

1948  Sergy Eisenstein, film director, dies at 50   

1949  Willie Pep recaptures world featherweight boxing title   

1950  "Rag Mop" by The Ames Brothers hit #1   

1951  In this year, Kwame Nkrumah claims inaugural parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana)   

1951  Marshall Teague drove a Hudson Hornet to victory on the beach oval of the 160-mile Daytona Grand National at Daytona Beach, Florida   

1951  In this year, Kwame Nkrumah claims 1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana)   

1953  President Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple.   

1953  Russia breaks diplomatic relations with Israel   

1953  "Hazel Flagg" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 190 performances.   

1954  6th Emmy Awards I Love Lucy, Donald O'Connor and Eve Arden win.   

1954  6th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Donald O'Connor and Eve Arden claims.   

1956  Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, former members of the British Foreign Office who had disappeared from England in 1951, resurface in Moscow   

1957  KUMV TV channel 8 in Williston, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting.   

1958  Auto racer Marshall Teague died at age thirty-seven after attempting to raise the closed-course speed record at Daytona   

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1377  King Ladislas of Naples (d. 1414) was born on this day in history.   

1380  Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italy, humanist was born on February - 11.   

1465  Elizabeth of York, London, Consort of King Henry VII was born on this day in history.   

1506  On this day in history birth of juliana van Stolberg, engraver of Nassau   

1535  On this day in history birth of gregory XIV, [Niccolo Sfondrati], Roman Catholic pope (1590-91)   

1557  On February - 11 birth of john Wtenbogaert, remonstrants theologist   

1568  On February - 11 birth of honoré d'Urfé, French writer (d. 1625)   

1649  On this day in history birth of william Carstares, Scottish minister (d. 1715)   

0641  On February - 11 heraclius, emperor of Byzantium (610-641), dies at about 65   

0731  On this day in history gregory II, Greek-Syrian Pope, dies   

0821  On February - 11 benedict of Aniane, saint, dies   

0824  On this day in history paschal I, Italian Pope (817-24), dies   

0867  On February - 11 theodora, the Saint, beauty queen/empress of Byzantine, dies   

1141  On this day in history hugo of St-Victor, philosopher/theologist/mystic, dies   

1160  On this day in history death of minamoto no Yoshitomo, Japanese general (b. 1123)   

1503  Elizabeth of York, Consort of King Henry VII, dies on 38th birthday on this day in history.