Page 8: Historical Events In February - 11
Saturday, 22 February 2025
1956 On this day in history donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, former members of the British Foreign Office who had disappeared from England in 1951, resurface in Moscow
1957 KUMV TV channel 8 in Williston, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting on February - 11.
1958 On this day in history auto racer Marshall Teague died at age thirty-seven after attempting to raise the closed-course speed record at Daytona.
1958 Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Minister of Foreign affairs on February - 11.
1958 On February - 11 ruth Carol Taylor is first African-American woman hired as flight attendant
1958 1st flight with black stewardess, RC Taylor, Ithaca NY on February - 11.
1959 Vinoo Mankad ends his final Test Cricket (v West Indies at Delhi) on this day in history.
1960 Jack Paar walks off his TV show on this day in history.
1961 Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black on February - 11.
1961 Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem on February - 11.
1961 Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor/director (Pygmalion), dies at 82 on this day in history.
1962 On this day in history nine U.S. and South Vietnamese crewmen are killed in a SC-47 crash about 70 miles north of Saigon
1963 On February - 11 beatles tape 10 tracks for their first album, including "Please, Please Me"
1963 On February - 11 cIA Domestic Operations Division created
1963 Near Kapuskasing Ontarioa shoot-out between loggers and independents sees three Kapuskasing loggers killed and nine wounded0 on this day in history.
1963 Sylvia Plath, poet/novelist (Ariel), kills herself in London at 30 on this day in history.
1964 Beatles first live appearance in US; Washington DC Coliseum on February - 11.
1964 On February - 11 greek & Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus
1964 On this day in history taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France
1965 Beatles drummer Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox in London on this day in history.
1968 Israeli-Jordan border fight on February - 11.
1968 On this day in history jeffrey Kramer survives 76 meter jump, Washington Bridge, Hudson River NY
1968 On February - 11 peggy Fleming wins Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France
1968 Howard Lindsay, US playwright (State of the Union), dies at 78 on February - 11.
1969 On this day in history dorey Funk Jr beats Gene Kiniski in Tampa, to become NWA champion
1969 On February - 11 in Montreal Quebec Canadian and West Indian student demonstrators destroy $1.4 million computer and set fire to data centre at Sir George Williams University
1969 On this day in history james Lanphier, actor (Flight of Lost Balloon), dies at 48
1970 26.37 cm (10.38") of rainfall, Mt Washington NH (state 24-hour record) on February - 11.
1970 Japan joins the space race, by launching a satellite into earth orbit on this day in history.
1970 On this day in history japan launches its first satellite into orbit
1970 John Lennon pays £1,344 fines for 96 protesting the South African rugby team playing in Scotland on February - 11.
1970 On February - 11 emil Abranyi, composer, dies at 87
1971 On February - 11 montréal Canadien John Believau scores his 500th NHL goal
1971 US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons on February - 11.
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