SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Today is Saturday, February 11, the 42nd day of 2017. There are 323 days left in the year.

1720 — Sweden & Prussia sign peace (second Treaty of Stockholm)

1752 — Pennsylvania Hospital, the 1st hospital in the U.S., opened

1766 — Stamp Act declared unconstitutional in Virginia

1768 — Samuel Adams letter, circulates around American colonies, opposing Townshend Act taxes

1790 — Society of Friends petitions Congress for abolition of slavery

1793 — Prussian troops occupy Venlo Netherlands

1794 — First session of U.S. Senate open to the public

1809 — Robert Fulton patents the steamboat

1810 — Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria