February 11 : People need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and authority to act on it.

On this day, 11 Feb....

660 BC - Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.

1531 - Henry VIII, king of England, recognized as supreme head of Church in England following the schism with Rome.

1751 - The Pennsylvania Hospital, the first in America, received its first patient.

1808 - Judge Jesse Fell of Pennsylvania experimented by burning anthracite coal to keep his house warm. He developed a method to burn the stone coal without the use of forced air and his fireplace grate opened up the home heating market.   He had found a cheap, clean-burning fuel. As a result, that area of northeast Pennsylvania became an important coal mining area for generations.

1818 - Britishers captured the 'Ajinkyatara' fort which belonged to the Marathas.

1852 - First British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street, London).

1922 - Insulin treatment announced. The use of insulin to treat diabetes in a dog was announced in their first paper published on the subject by the Canadian surgeon Frederick Banting and his assistant Charles Best. Within a year, diabetics had hopes of living full and productive lives. Banting received a share of the Nobel Prize in 1923 for the work.

1928 - The La-Z-Boy reclining chair was invented. Ed Shoemaker and his cousin Edward Knabusch designed the first La-Z-Boy with a piece of plywood and a yardstick. Then, it was a comfortable wood-slat porch chair. In Spring 1929, the upholstered chairs were introduced for a year-round market.

1942 - "Archie" comic book debuts.

              

1954 - The largest light bulb, rated at 75,000-watts, was lit at the Rockefeller Centre in New York, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Thomas Edison's first light bulb.  (It was allowed to cool for five minutes after burning for three minutes).

1969 - Diana Crump becomes 1st US woman jockey to ride against men.

1979 - Cellular Jail, which is situated at Andaman Nicobar Islands, was declared as a National Memorial.

1990 -  Nelson Mandela released after 27 years imprisonment in South Africa.

1994 - The rBGH genetically engineered growth hormone for cows goes on sale to dairy farmers under the name Posilac. Also known as "Bovine Somatotropin" or BST, it is a genetically engineered copy of a naturally occurring hormone produced in the pituitary gland of cattle and is a major regulator of milk production.  The purpose is to improve a cow's production of milk as much as 5 to 15 pounds per day per cow.  

1998 - KVBC-FM (Las Vegas) offers Monica Lewinsky $5M for an interview.

2011 - Egyptian Revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 18 days of protests.

Born

1847 - Thomas Alva Edison, a great scientist, and inventor of the electric light lamp.

1917 - T. Nagi Reddy, Indian revolutionary.

1957 - Tina Munim, actor.

RIP

1942 - Jamnalal Bajaj, greatest industrialist, social reformer, freedom fighter and Gandhiwadi.

1968 - Deendayal Upadhyaya, the great philosopher, litterateur, social worker, thinker and founder of Jansangh.

1977 - Dr. Fakruddin Ali Ahmad the 5th President of India.

1993 - Kamal Amrohi, famous film producer, director, and writer.

You may have known....

An average of 100 people chokes to death on ballpoint pens every year.