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02/11/1811
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Pres Madison prohibits trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years
Type: Event
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02/11/1812
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Mass Gov Gerry signs a redistricting bill-1st "gerrymander"
Type: Event
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02/11/1812
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Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice Pres (Confederacy), died in 1883
Type: Birth
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02/11/1812
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Benjamin Franklin Sands, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883
Type: Birth
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02/11/1814
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Norway's independence proclaimed
Type: Event
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02/11/1819
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Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer
Type: Birth
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02/11/1821
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Auguste douard Mariette, Fren egyptologist, (dug out Sphinx 12/16/42)
Type: Birth
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02/11/1821
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Hermann Allmers, writer
Type: Birth
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02/11/1826
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London University founded
Type: Event
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02/11/1829
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William Anderson Pile, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1889
Type: Birth
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02/11/1830
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Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf, composer
Type: Birth
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02/11/1830
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Peter Arnold Heise, composer
Type: Birth
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02/11/1833
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Melville Weston Fuller, 8th chief justice
Type: Birth
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02/11/1837
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American Physiological Society organizes in Boston
Type: Event
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02/11/1839
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Josiah Willard Gibbs, theoretical physicist/chemist
Type: Birth
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02/11/1840
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Gaetano Donizetti's Opera "La Fille du Regiment," premieres in Paris
Type: Event
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02/11/1840
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Sanuel Dana Greene, Lt Cmdr (Union Navy), died in 1884
Type: Birth
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02/11/1841
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J H Ferdinand Olivier, German painter, dies at 55
Type: Death
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02/11/1843
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Opera "I Lombardi," premieres in Milan
Type: Event
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02/11/1846
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William Fox Talbot, pioneer photographer/inventor
Type: Birth
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02/11/1847
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Thomas Alva Edison, Milan Ohio, lit up your life (held 1200 patents)
Type: Birth
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02/11/1851
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1st cricket 1st-class game in Australia, Tasmania v Vic, Launceston
Type: Event
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02/11/1852
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1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London)
Type: Event
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02/11/1854
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Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time
Type: Event
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02/11/1858
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1st apparition of Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes France
Type: Event
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02/11/1860
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Rachilde, [Marguerite Vallette-Eymery], French author (Monsieur Venus)
Type: Birth
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02/11/1861
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President-elect Lincoln takes train from Spingfield IL to Wash DC
Type: Event
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02/11/1861
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US House unanimously passes resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state
Type: Event
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02/11/1867
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August W Messer, German philosopher/educator/psychologist
Type: Birth
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02/11/1868
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Lon Foucault, discovers 1st physical proof of Earth's rotation, dies
Type: Death
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02/11/1869
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Helene ELJ Krller-Mller, Dutch founder (Krller-Mller Museum)
Type: Birth
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02/11/1870
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Jacob M de Kempenaer, Dutch min of Internal Aff (1848-49), dies at 76
Type: Death
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02/11/1870
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Leopold Eugen Mechura, composer, dies at 66
Type: Death
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02/11/1873
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Spanish Cortes fires king Amadeus I
Type: Event
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02/11/1873
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Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author/novelist (Pages from My Life)
Type: Birth
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02/11/1874
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Elsa Beskow, [Maartman], Swedish children's book/fairy tales author
Type: Birth
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02/11/1874
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Fritz Bennicke Hart, composer
Type: Birth
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02/11/1875
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Sara Wennerberg-Reuter, composer
Type: Birth
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02/11/1878
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1st US bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms
Type: Event
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02/11/1878
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1st weekly Weather report published in UK
Type: Event
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02/11/1879
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Jean Gilbert, composer
Type: Birth
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02/11/1879
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Honore Daumier, caricaturist/painter, dies
Type: Death
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02/11/1879
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Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch author/novelist/writer, dies at 67
Type: Death
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02/11/1882
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Gheorghe Cucu, composer
Type: Birth
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02/11/1882
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Gustav Schmidt, composer, dies at 65
Type: Death
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02/11/1883
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Paul August von Klenau, Danish composer/conductor (Sulamith)
Type: Birth
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02/11/1887
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Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstngl, German/US pianist/politician (NSDAP)
Type: Birth
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02/11/1887
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John van Melle, South African writer (Dawid Booysen)
Type: Birth
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02/11/1889
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Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890
Type: Event
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02/11/1889
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John Mills, dancer (Mills Brothers)
Type: Birth
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