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Wednesday, 11 February 2026
1931 Lou Gehrig's 4 RBIs break his old RBI mark of 175 en route to 184 
1931 Sam Morris, cricketer (one Test Aust v Eng 1884), dies.
1932 Chicago Cubs clinch the NL pennant.
1932 Max Slevogt, German painter, dies at 63.
1933 Pittsburgh Steelers (as Pirates) play 1st NFL game, lose 23-2
1933 Annie Besant, English theosophy (Esoteric Christianity), dies
1934 Sophia Loren, Italian born film actress is born
1935 Pitts Crawfords beat NY Cubans to win Negro NL Championship, 3-0.
1938 Dmitri Shostakovitch's Suite for jazz orchestra, premieres.
1939 British fleet takes German U-27 boat.
1942 Gunther Hagg is recorded as becoming world champ of all records from 1500m to 5000m
1943 HMCS ST CROIX (RCN),sunk by a new acoustic torpedoSE of Greenland by 2 torpedoes from German U.305
1943 Rome is occupied by the Germans. The German Army now controls most of Italy.
1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-338
1944 Death in action, while filming American troops on Peleliu, of Australian cameraman Damien Parer Parer made what has been considered Australia's most famous war film - Kokoda Front Line The film won an Academy Award and gave international exposure to the experiences of Australian soldiers in 1942 on the Kokoda Track
1944 Nijmegen is liberated from German occupation.
1944 John Grayburn, English (Victoria Cross), dies in battle in Arnhem
1945 German rocket engineers begin work in US
1946 inaugural ever Cannes film festival
1946 Churchill argues for a "US of Europe"
1947 Fiorello H La Guardia, (Mayor-R-NYC, 1933-45), dies.
1948 "Magdalena" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 48 performances
1949 Dutch Guilder devalued 30.3%.
1949 Nikolaos Skalkottas, composer, dies at 45.
1951 inaugural North Pole jet crossing.
1951 1st North Pole jet crossing
1952 KPTV TV channel 12 in Portland, OR (IND) begins broadcasting
1953 Cubs Ernie Banks hits his 1st major league HR
1954 In this year, inaugural National People's Congress formally adopts Chinese constitution
1954 Roger Bannister awarded Britain's Silver Pears Trophy
1954 The inaugural FORTRAN computer program run
1957 Jean Julius Christian Sibelius, Fin composer (Finlandia), dies at 91
1958 Martin Luther King Jr stabbed in chest by a deranged black woman in NYC.
1959 Olin Howlin, actor (Swifty-Circus Boy), dies at 63
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