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Events on February 11

• 1531 The English bishops recognize Henry VIII as head of the Church of England. The Pope thereby loses all authority in the Kingdom of England, and a state church is established.
• 1919 The Weimar National Assembly elects the incumbent Reich Chancellor Friedrich Ebert as the first Reich President. The basis for this election is the Law on Provisional Reich Authority from the previous day.
• 1928 Swiss Federal President Edmund Schulthess opens the II Olympic Winter Games in St. Moritz, which will last until February 19.
• 1939 Physicists Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch describe theoretical considerations following the discovery of nuclear fission in the published issue of the scientific journal Nature, causing a sensation in the scientific community.
• 1963 The Beatles record almost all tracks of their first album Please Please Me between 10:00 and 22:45.
• 1986 During the third and final agent exchange on the Glienicke Bridge between West Berlin and Potsdam, among others, Soviet dissident Anatoly Sharansky comes to the West.
• 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev gives his consent to Germany's reunification during a visit by Helmut Kohl.
• 1990 South African human rights activist and leader of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, is released from prison unconditionally after over 27 years of imprisonment on the orders of President Frederik Willem de Klerk. This marks the beginning of the end of apartheid in South Africa.
• 1991 Due to the Second Gulf War, the Cologne Rose Monday parade is officially cancelled.
• 2006 The first gold medal at the XX Olympic Winter Games in Turin goes to the German team through biathlete Michael Greis. In Nordic combined, Schonach's Georg Hettich surprisingly wins gold, making this the most successful German Olympic start of all time.
• 2013 Benedict XVI announces his resignation as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church effective February 28.
• 2016 At a press conference, researchers from LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) publish the first measurement of gravitational waves on September 14, 2015.

Born on February 11

• 1900 Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher
• 1902 Arne Jacobsen, Danish designer and architect
• 1920 Farouk, King of Egypt
• 1925 Horst Bollmann, German actor
• 1930 Mary Quant, British fashion designer, considered one of the inventors of the miniskirt
• 1941 Rudolf Brunnenmeier, German footballer
• 1951 Cleo Kretschmer, German actress and author
• 1980 Theresa Scholze, German actress
• 1981 Kelly Rowland, American singer
• 1991 Hilal Altınbilek, Turkish actress and model

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „11. Februar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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