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What happened in history on this day: February 11?
Since 1995, I have been collecting information on a variety of topics,
creating several timelines of history.
Here you will find specific events from those databases
for this day, on the topics of personal computers, video games, the Walt Disney Company,
Chevrolet Corvettes, A&W Root Beer, Sweden, and Canadian coins.
On February 11 in ...
- 1983 - A Taipei, Taiwan, district criminal court dismisses Apple Computer's charges against Sunrise Computer Service and Golden Formosa Microcomputer of making and selling pirated copies of patented Apple software products.
- 1985 - Texas Instruments begins volume production of 256 kilobit DRAM chips.
- 1985 - Franklin Computer emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
- 1985 - Digital Equipment concedes it has ceased production of the Rainbow computer.
- 1991 - Apple Computer announces a revised Portable computer with backlighting.
- 2000 - Advanced Micro Devices introduces the 850 MHz Athlon processor. Price is US$849 in 1000 unit quantities.
- 2007 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. A laptop computer is used for writing a story.
- 1932 - Disney releases the Mickey Mouse film The Grocery Boy to theaters.
- 1938 - The Donald Duck film Self Control is released to theaters.
- 1949 - Disney releases the Donald Duck film Donald's Happy Birthday to theaters. Huey, Dewey, and Louie also appear.
- 1952 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Alice in Wonderland for an Oscar Award in the category Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture.
- 1952 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Lambert the Sheepish Lion for an Oscar Award in the category Short Subjects, Cartoons.
- 1952 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Nature's Half Acre for an Oscar Award in the category Short Subjects, Two Reels.
- 1968 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, entitled My Family Is a Menagerie.
- 1970 - Buena Vista releases the live-action feature film King of the Grizzlies to theatres. the film is based on the book The Biography of a Grizzly by Ernest Thompson.
- 1973 - The Legacy of Walt Disney display at Disneyland closes, to be moved to the Opera House.
- 1976 - Buena Vista releases the live-action feature film No Deposit, No Return to theaters.
- 1982 - Disney releases the live-action feature film Dragonslayer to theaters in the UK.
- 1987 - The Walt Disney Company is re-incorporated, in Delaware.
- 1987 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates Paul Newman for his role in the film The Color of Money for an Oscar Award in the category Actor.
- 1987 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio for her role in the film The Color of Money for an Oscar Award in the category Supporting Actress.
- 1987 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film The Color of Money for an Oscar Award in the category Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.
- 1987 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film The Color of Money for an Oscar Award in the category Art Direction - Set Decoration.
- 1990 - The NBC TV network airs The Magical World of Disney show, entitled A Ducktales Valentine!.
- 1991 - Tanzania issues ten postage stamps depicting various Disney characters.
- 1992 - Grenada issues twelve postage stamps depicting various Disney characters in thrill sports.
- 1994 - Buena Vista releases the Walt Disney Pictures live-action feature film Blank Check to theaters.
- 1995 - Sotheby's galleries in New York conducts an auction of The Art of The Lion King. Auction receipts gross over US$2 million.
- 1999 - Disney premieres the live-action feature film My Favorite Martian at Famous Players Colossus Center in Toronto, Canada.
- 2000 - Disney releases the Walt Disney Pictures animated feature film The Tigger Movie to theaters in the USA.
- 2002 - In Hollywood, California, Disney premieres the film Return to Never Land.
- 2004 - Comcast launches a hostile takeover bid for Disney, publicly releasing a letter to Michael Eisner outlining the proposed financial terms. If approved, Comcast would issue 0.78 of a Comcast share for each Disney share (total value US$54 billion) plus assume Disney's debt of about US$12 billion. Disney shareholders would then own about 42 percent of the combined company, which would be worth US$125 billion.
- 2004 - Institutional Shareholder Services issues a statement criticizing Michael Eisner's leadership, and recommending Disney shareholders withhold their votes from Eisner at the upcoming shareholders' meeting.
- 2004 - Disney releases a response to Comcast's takeover bid, saying they will evaluate the proposal.
- 2007 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. The spaghetti kissing scene from Lady and the Tramp is mocked, with a girl kissing a dog looking like Tramp.
- 2011 - The Meyer Werft shipyard lays the keel for the Disney Cruise Line cruise ship Disney Fantasy (4000 passengers).
- 2022 - The new Disney Wish cruise ship is floated out at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany.
- 1962 - At Daytona Beach, Florida, the three hour Daytona Continental race is held.
- Finishing 1st in GT +5000 class and 13th overall is the Grady Davis/Gulf Oil #11 Corvette driven by Dick Thompson.
- Finishing 2nd in GT +5000 class and 19th overall is the Grady Davis/Gulf Oil #10 1960 Corvette driven by Don Yenko.
- Finishing 3rd in GT +5000 class and 20th overall is the Red Vogt #20 Corvette driven by Marvin Panch.
- Finishing 4th in GT +5000 class and 21th overall is the Delmo Johnson #25 Corvette driven by Dave Morgan.
- Finishing 5th in GT +5000 class and 23th overall is the John Walker #75 Corvette driven by Jack Knab.
- 2001 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs the Futurama TV show in the US. In the year 3000, a two-door spaceship has a front end looking just like a 1991-96 model Corvette: same pop-up headlights, hood bulge, hood insignia, wraparound parking-cornering-fog lamps, licence plate cover, and rub molding around entire vehicle.
- 1938 - Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg meets with Adolf Hitler in Berchtesgaden, Bavaria. Adolf Hitler demands that Austria become a protectorate of Germany, governed by him. Schuschnigg signs in agreement.
- 1940 - Russian forces breach the main Finnish defensive line.
- 1942 - (2245 hours) Operation Cerberus: German warships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and Prinz Eugen leave Brest, heading through the Straits of Dover to German home ports. British Operation Fuller attempts to opose the ships reaching their destination. The ships are able to travel 300 miles without detection.
- 1943 - Karkov is recaptured by the Soviet Red Army.
- 1943 - (evening) 177 British bombers attack Wilhelmshaven, Germany. A hit on a naval ammunition depot devastates 120 acres of the town and dockyards.
- 1944 - German Admiral Wilhelm Canaris is relieved of his Abwer command.
- 1945 - At Yalta, representatives of Great Britain, the USA, and the Soviet Union sign a secret agreement on certain post-war issues. After victory over Japan, the Soviet Union is to receive the Kurile Islands, and southern Sakhalin and adjacent islands.
- 1946 - The U.S. Military Tribunal in Japan convicts Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma of the Japanese Army of ordering the Bataan Death March and condoning other wartime atrocities. He is sentenced to death by firing squad.
- 1946 - The secret agreement by the Allies made in Yalta is published publicly. The terms of the Soviet Union joining the war versus Japan include maintaining the status quo in Outer Mongolia, the restoration of southern Sakhalin and adjacent islands to the Soviet Union, and the gain to the Soviet Union of the Kurile Islands.
- 1946 - At the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, former German Field Marshal General Friedrich von Paulus testifies as a witness for the Russian prosecution. He says the initiators of the German attack on Russia are Hermann Göring, Wilhelm Keitel, and Alfred Jodl, with plans started on September 3, 1940.
- 1946 - (over 33 hours) American combat engineers, intelligence officers, a German prisoner and his French guard (party of thirteen total) unearth thirty huge crates from southern Bohemia, containing documents of the Czech state, and complete records of German occupation of Czechoslovakia. The German Gestapo had buried the documents about a year ago, in a shaft 6 x 6 x 30 feet deep, with over fifty booby traps.
- 1990 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show. Two characters play a boxing home video game "Super Slugfest" on the TV, using single-button joysticks. One character goes to the arcade to practice on the arcade version.
- 1990 - Enix releases the Dragon Quest IV video game for the Famicom in Japan. On the first day in stores, 1.3 million copies are sold, for about US$75 each. The game is released on a Sunday; previous three releases were on a week day. A Japanese law prohibited the release of a new Dragon Quest game on a week day.
- 1993 - Midway Amusement Games releases the Mortal Kombat video game Version 4.0 (T-Unit) to arcades in the US.
- 1999 - Square releases the Final Fantasy VIII video game for the PlayStation in Japan.
- 2000 - The US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reverses an earlier ruling that prevented Connectix from shipping the Virtual Game Station PlayStation emulator software for the Macintosh.
- 2002 - Nintendo releases the Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 for the Game Boy Advance in the US.
- 1607 - King Karl IX founds the Skultuna Messrigsbruk brass works factory by edict. The factory is located just outside Västerås, along the Svartå River.
- 1928 - (to February 19) The 2nd Olympic Winter Games are held in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Sweden wins 2 gold, 2 silver, and 1 bronze medals.
- 1930 - Roy Allen's image of a bull's eye circle, arrow through the middle, A & W on top inside, ROOT BEER below, is registered as a trade-mark.
- 1977 - The Numismatic Hobby Protection bill is given second reading in the House of Commons, and is referred to the Standing Committee on Justice.
- 1870 - The Carson City Branch Mint releases its first coins to circulation, 2303 Seated Liberty silver dollars, first US coins with "CC" mint mark.
- 1964 - Ceremonies are held at the Denver and Philadelphia Mints are held to commemorate striking Kennedy half dollars.
- 1965 - US Senate approves Frank Gasparro as Mint chief engraver.
- 1977 - Mary T. Brooks resigns as Mint Director, 2.5 years into her 5-year term.
- 2010 - The US Mint launches the 2011 Lincoln cent with redesigned reverse depicting a Union shield.
- 1851 - First cricket first-class game in Australia, Tasmania versus Victoria, Launceston.
- 1905 - James Blackstone, in Seattle Washington, bowls 299.5; last pin breaks but stands.
- 1908 - Australia regains the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory versus England.
- 1927 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran.
- 1927 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles.
- 1928 - (to February 19) The II Olympic Winter Games are held in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
- 1938 - Steve Casey beats Lou Thesz in Boston, to become wrestling champion.
- 1948 - Billy Griffith scores cricket century on debut England versus West Indies, out for 140.
- 1948 - Test Cricket debut of Frank Worrell, versus England Port-of-Spain.
- 1949 - Willie Pep recaptures world featherweight boxing title.
- 1957 - NHL Players Association forms (New York City, New York); Detroit Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected president.
- 1959 - Vinoo Mankad ends his final Test Cricket (v West Indies at Delhi).
- 1965 - Milwaukee Braves propose to pay 5 cents from each ticket to bring a new team to Milwaukee.
- 1968 - Peggy Fleming wins Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France.
- 1969 - Diana Crump becomes first US woman jockey to ride against men, Hialelah.
- 1971 - Montreal Canadiens' John Believau scores his 500th NHL goal.
- 1973 - First one-day international for Pakistan and New Zealand.
- 1973 - First sub 17-minute 1,500-metre female freestyle swim (Shane Gould 16 minutes 56.9 seconds).
- 1973 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Naples-Lely Golf Classic.
- 1973 - Philadelphia 76ers lose their 20th NBA game in a row.
- 1974 - First baseball arbitration: Minnesota Twins' pitcher Dick Woodson seeking US$29,000 (wins), Twins offered $23,000.
- 1978 - 25th hat trick in New York Islanders' history-Denis Potvin.
- 1981 - Australia all out 83 versus India at Melbourne Cricket Ground chasing 143 to win.
- 1984 - Wayne Gretzky sets NHL short-handed season scoring record at 11.
- 1985 - Kent Hrbek signs 5-year, US$6 million contract with Minnesota Twins, making him the club's first million dollar player.
- 1985 - Pakistani bowler Wasim Akram takes ten wickets in his second Test cricket match, but New Zealand still wins.
- 1986 - Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup.
- 1987 - England beats Australia 2-0 to win the World Series Cup.
- 1989 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary.
- 1990 - 40th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 130-113 in Miami.
- 1990 - James "Buster" Douglas knocks out Mike Tyson to win the World Heavyweight Boxing crown.
- 1990 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge.
- 1992 - Michael Johnson runs indoor world record 400 metre (44.97 seconds).
- 1993 - Irina Privalova runs world record 60 metre indoor (6.92 seconds).
- 1995 - Danyon Loader swims world record 400 metre freestyle (3 minutes 40.46 seconds).
- 1995 - Mark Foster swims world record 50 metre butterfly (23.55 seconds).
- 1995 - Sandra Völker swims European record 50 metre backstroke (27.67 seconds).
- 1995 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge.
- 1995 - West Indies score 5-660 against New Zealand.
- 1996 - 46th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 129-118 at San Antonio.
- 1997 - Bill Parcells becomes head coach of New York Jets.
- 2001 - The East beats the West 111-110 in the 50th NBA All Star Game in Washington, DC.
- 2001 - Three Rivers Stadium, 30-year-old home of the Pittsburgh Pirates, is imploded.
- 2006 - Pitcher Carlos Zambrano and the Chicago Cubs agree to a one-year deal worth US$6.5 million.
- 2007 - All-star backstop Joe Mauer the Minnesota Twins come to terms on a $33 million, four-year contract.
- 2022 - At Honda Center in Anaheim, California, USA, NHL regular season game: Seattle Kraken beats Anaheim Ducks by score 4-3.
- 2022 - At Gila River Arena in Glendale, Arizona, USA, NHL regular season game: Tampa Bay Lightning beats Arizona Coyotes by score 4-3.
- 2022 - At Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, NHL regular season game: Edmonton Oilers beats New York Islanders by score 3-1.
- 2022 - At American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, USA, NHL regular season game: Dallas Stars beats Winnipeg Jets by score 4-3.
- 1970 - Japan becomes fourth nation to put a satellite (Osumi) in orbit.
- 1974 - Titan-Centaur test launch fails.
- 1984 - STS-41-B: Space Shuttle Challenger makes the first shuttle landing at the Kennedy Space Center.
- 1994 - Space shuttle STS-60 (Discovery 18), lands.
- 1995 - Space shuttle STS-63 (Discovery 19), lands.
- 1997 - STS 82 (Discovery 22) launches.
- 1999 - Pluto moves along its eccentric orbit further from the Sun than Neptune. It had been nearer than Neptune since 1979.
- 2010 - The US space agency NASA launches its Solar Dynamics Observatory from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The observatory is designed to acquire detailed images of the Sun to explain variation in its activity.
- 1895 - -17 degrees F (-27.2 degrees C) in Braemar, Grampian (United Kingdom record).
- 1935 - -11 degrees F (-24 degrees C), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low).
- 1970 - 26.37 cm (10.38 inches) of rainfall, Mount Washington, New Hampshire (state 24-hour record).
- 1790 - Society of Friends petitions US Congress for abolition of slavery.
- 1794 - First session of US Senate open to the public.
- 1808 - Anthracite coal first burned as fuel, experimentally, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA.
- 1811 - US President James Madison prohibits trade with Britain for third time in four years.
- 1812 - Massachusetts Governor Gerry signs a redistricting bill-the first "gerrymander".
- 1837 - American Physiological Society organizes in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1861 - US House unanimously passes resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
- 1878 - First US bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms.
- 1895 - Georgetown becomes part of Washington DC.
- 1898 - Owen Smith of North Carolina, AME Zion minister, is named minister to Liberia.
- 1899 - -15 degrees F (-26 degrees C), Washington DC (district record).
- 1899 - -61 degrees F (-52 degrees C), Montana (record low temperature).
- 1907 - Passenger ship Larchmont sinks by Block Island, 322 die.
- 1916 - Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on birth control.
- 1922 - US intervention army leaves Honduras.
- 1935 - First US airplane flight with auto slung beneath the fuselage, New York.
- 1937 - 44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint, Michigan ends.
- 1941 - First Gold record presented (Glenn Miller - "Chattanooga Choo Choo").
- 1942 - Archie comic book debuts.
- 1943 - US General Eisenhower is selected to command the Allied armies in Europe.
- 1945 - First gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, in Downey, California.
- 1945 - At Yalta, representatives of Great Britain, the USA, and the Soviet Union sign a secret agreement on certain post-war issues. After victory over Japan, the Soviet Union is to receive the Kurile Islands, and southern Sakhalin and adjacent islands. All those who resided in Soviet territory on September 1, 1939, are required to return to the Soviet Union.
- 1946 - The U.S. Military Tribunal in Japan convicts Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma of the Japanese Army of ordering the Bataan Death March and condoning other wartime atrocities. He is sentenced to death by firing squad.
- 1953 - US President Dwight Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple.
- 1954 - In Los Angeles, California, the 6th Annual Emmy Awards are presented, hosted by Ed Sullivan.
- Best Audience Participation, Quiz or Panel Program: This Is Your Life and What's My Line?
- Best Children's Program: Kukla, Fran, and Ollie
- Best Dramatic Program: The United States Steel Hour
- Best Female Star of a Regular Series: Eve Arden for Our Miss Brooks
- Best Male Star of a Regular Series: Donald O'Connor for The Colgate Comedy Hour
- Best Mystery, Action, or Adventure Program: Dragnet
- Best New Program: Make Room for Daddy and The United States Steel Hour
- Best Program of News or Sports: See It Now
- Best Public Affairs Program: Victory at Sea
- Best Series Supporting Actor: Art Carney for The Jackie Gleason Show
- Best Series Supporting Actress: Vivian Vance for I Love Lucy
- Best Situation Comedy: I Love Lucy
- Best Variety Program: Omnibus
- Most Outstanding Personality: Edward R. Murrow.
- 1963 - US Central Intelligence Agency Domestic Operations Division is created.
- 1964 - The Beatles make their first public concert appearance in the United States at the Coliseum in Washington, D.C., and 20,000 fans attend.
- 1968 - Jeffrey Kramer survives 76-metre jump off Washington Bridge into Hudson River, New York.
- 1968 - Madison Square Garden III closes; Madison Square Garden IV opens (New York City, New York).
- 1970 - 26.37 cm (10.38 inches) of rainfall, Mount Washington, New Hampshire (state 24-hour record).
- 1971 - US, United Kingdom, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons.
- 1971 - Whitney Young Junior, US National Urban League director, drowns in Nigeria.
- 1984 - STS-41-B: Space Shuttle Challenger makes the first shuttle landing at the Kennedy Space Center.
- 1987 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1989 - Barbara Clementine Harris is consecrated as the first female bishop of the Episcopal Church in the USA.
- 1993 - Janet Reno is nominated by President Bill Clinton as U.S. Attorney General.
- 1994 - Lu Parker, Miss South Carolina, crowned 43rd Miss USA.
- 1998 - KVBC-FM (Las Vegas) offers Monica Lewinsky $5 million for interview.
- 2000 - A blast from an explosive device in front of a Barclay's Bank across from the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street wounds dozens but kills none.
- 2001 - Three Rivers Stadium, 30-year-old home of the Pittsburgh Pirates, is imploded.
- 2004 - Comcast in the USA launches a US$54 billion hostile takeover bid for the Walt Disney Company. The bid is withdrawn on April 28.
- 2006 - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shoots his friend and lawyer, Harry Whittington, in the face with a shotgun on a south Texas ranch.
Other history:
- 1814 - Norway's independence proclaimed.
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