Today is Tuesday, February 11, the 42nd day of 2014. There are 323 days left in the year.
660 B.C. ― Traditional founding of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno 1531 ― Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of the Church in England 1808 ― Anthracite coal first burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 1809 ― Robert Fulton patents the steamboat 1858 ― First apparition of Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes France 1896 ― Oscar Wildes “Salome” premieres in Paris 1945 ― Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill and Stalin 1970 ― Japan becomes fourth nation to put a satellite (Osumi) in orbit 1978 ― China lifts a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare and Dickens 1990 ― Nelson Mandela (political prisoner-27 years) freed in South Africa