Main events in the day 11 February
Today is Tuesday, dia 11 February 2020.
This is forty-second day of the year.
Missing 324 days to the end of the year.
Those born on this date belong to the sign Aquarius.
European of the Safer Internet Day, European Day 112, Day of the Portuguese Red Cross, World Day of the Sick and the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
660 BC. – Probable starting date of the Empire of Japan Foundation.
1650 -Dies, com 54 anos, the French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes, author of “The method of Speech”.
1847 – Born the American inventor Thomas Alva Edison.
1865 – It founded the Portuguese Red Cross, following the accession of Portugal to the first Geneva Convention, in the previous year.
1873 – Amadeo of Savoy abdicates of the Spanish crown. Born the First Republic.
1879 – The Portuguese government launches tender to the port of Leixões.
1888 - Avenue Theater Inauguration, em Lisboa, with comedy “From pillar to post”. It is destroyed by fire, em 1967, when he presented “Happy Birthday”, de Harold Pinter.
1890 – Republican rally in Palm Street, em Lisboa, followed by demonstration, Guard prevented by the Municipal, near the Swiss and Martin Cafes.
1897 - the licenses of the Portuguese Industrial Association and the Commercial Association of Lisbon are assigned.
1921 – Contain the oil mills of the Algarve by the poor production of olive.
1929 – The Vatican State is established by the Lateran Treaty.
1930 – Manuel Gonçalves Cherry passes the Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon.
1944 -Dies, com 82 anos, Henrique de Paiva Couceiro, combatant Africa, former overseas governor.
1945 -World War II. It signed the Yalta agreement between the Allied powers.
1956 – The population of Malta is in favor of incorporating in the UK, in a referendum.
1963 – The US recognizes the Iraqi government.
1968 – Vietcong troops perform 300 civilians, in South Vietnam, during the Battle of Hue.
1975 – The Conservative Party elects, pela primeira vez, a woman, Margaret Thatcher, for leadership.
1979 – Cai pro-Western monarchy in Iran, Reza Pahlavi led. It proclaimed the Islamic Republic.
1983 – Very low temperatures cause snowfall in Évora, Leiria, Coimbra and Viseu.
1984 – Leaves, in the Official Gazette, the diploma that reopens the Portuguese banking sector to the private sector.
1987 – The President of the Philippines Corazon Aquino promulgates the Constitution.
1989 – Pela primeira vez, It is granted a bishopric to a woman, US Barbara Harris, the Protestant Church of Philadelphia.
1990 – It is released Mandela, historic leader of the ANC, African National Congress, taken during 27 years in prison Victor Verster, Cape Town.
1993 – Portugal obtains authorization for the opening of the consulate Goa.
2000 – Dies French filmmaker Roger Vadin. Tinha 72 anos.
2001 -Dies, com 77 anos, the bulls killer Diamantino Vizeu.
2006 – G8 ministers support the decision of the International Monetary Fund on debt relief to 19 poorest countries.
– peaceful demonstrations in European capitals against the publication of the Mohammed cartoons. Denmark closes embassies in Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Indonesia.
2007 – The "Yes" wins the referendum on the decriminalization of abortion, com 59,25 by 100 votes, contra 40,75 Non percent. Abstention reaches 56,39 por cento.
– It opened in Macau Casino Grand Lisboa.
– Dies, com 79 anos, a Swedish writer Marianne Fredriksson, author of "The Simon Visions", "Dear Daughter" and "Hanna's Daughters".
2009 – The leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, Morgan Tsvangirai, It is invested Zimbabwe's Prime Minister, five months after the signing of the power-sharing deal with Robert Mugabe.
– Die Paulo Carlos Medina, veteran of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) and former Attorney General of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau. Tinha 72 anos.
2010 – A pair of giant shoes, made of stainless steel pots Portuguese, a sculpture titled "Marilyn", the artist Joana Vasconcelos, It is fetched at auction, em Londres, por 573,964 mil euros, more than tripling the estimate.
2011 – After 18 consecutive days of challenge, Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, resigns. The wave of protest made at least 300 dead, second sheets of UN and non-governmental organization for human rights Human Rights Watch, and several thousand injured.
2013 – Pope Benedict XVI announced the resignation from day 28 February speech in Latin at a consistory at the Vatican.
2014 - Beijing and Taipei agree on a dialogue between governments. The first since 1949.
– Morre Louise Brough, former American tennis player, winner of the Wimbledon tournament four times. Tinha 90 anos.
2015 – Mais de 300 immigrants, mainly from the coast of Libya, die in the sinking four overcrowded boats in the Mediterranean. Amnesty International accuses EU of "hiding our heads in the sand" on immigration.
– Former commander of the Italian cruise ship "Costa Concordia’ Francesco Schettino sentenced to 16 years in prison in the trial where he was accused of multiple manslaughter and abandoning ship.
2016 – Rui Reis, scientist and vice president of the University of Minho, Portuguese is the first elected to the US National Academy of Engineering.
– Dies, aos 72 anos, Juan Mujica, Uruguayan footballer and coach, twice winner of the Intercontinental Cup football by the National Montevideo.
– Dies, aos 74 anos, Graham More, former footballer Welshman who joined the Cardiff City, Chelsea e Manchester United.
2017 – The Portuguese animated film "Shards", José Miguel Ribeiro, wins the award for Best Documentary Film International Festival of Short Film of Clermont-Ferrand, in France.
– Dies, aos 69 anos, Jiro Taniguchi, comic Japanese author, with works like "Land of Dreams" and "The diary of my father", in Tokyo, in Japan.
– Dies, aos 73 anos, em Amesterdão, Piet Keizer, former Dutch footballer who formed duo with Johan Cruyff at Ajax Amsterdam of the attack in the early 1970.
2018 – A plane crashes on the outskirts of Moscow, and causes the death of 71 persons on board.
– Dies, aos 86 anos, Raul Hestnes Ferreira, Portuguese architect.
– Dies, com 89 anos, the American singer Vic Damone.
2019 – The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, promulgates the diploma establishing the professional regime of classic or contemporary ballet, approved by parliament in December.
– Twenty-three news agencies around the world, including Lusa, sign, no Dubai, one Tolerance Charter which aims to "develop international awareness" on the topic. The Charter is signed under the World Government Summit.
