February 11: Tu Bishvat (Judaism, 2017); Victory of the Revolution in Iran (1979); National Foundation Day in Japan
Emperor Jimmu of Japan
- 660 BC – According to tradition, Emperor Jimmu (ukiyo-e depiction pictured) founded Japan and established his capital in Yamato.
- 1823 – About 100 boys were killed in a human crush at the Convent of the Minori Osservanti on the last day of the Maltese Carnival in Valletta, Malta.
- 1919 – Friedrich Ebert was elected the first President of the German Weimar Republic by the Weimar National Assembly.
- 1938 – The BBC aired an adaptation of Karel Čapek's play R.U.R., the first science fiction television programme ever broadcast.
- 1968 – After two black employees were killed on the job, about 1,300 black sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S., began a strike that lasted over two months.
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