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