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These days is Friday, Feb. 11, the 42nd working day of 2022. There are 323 times remaining in the yr.

Today’s Highlight in Background:

On Feb. 11, 2013, with a several words in Latin, Pope Benedict XVI did what no pope experienced done in extra than 50 % a millennium: announced his resignation. The bombshell arrived in the course of a regime early morning conference of Vatican cardinals. (The 85-year-old pontiff was succeeded by Pope Francis.)

In 660 B.C., tradition retains that Japan was started as Jimmu ascended the throne as the country’s very first emperor.

In 1847, American inventor Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio.

In 1937, a 6-7 days-old sit-down strike in opposition to Standard Motors finished, with the corporation agreeing to acknowledge the United Auto Workers Union.

In 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet chief Josef Stalin signed the Yalta Agreement, in which Stalin agreed to declare war against Imperial Japan pursuing Nazi Germany’s capitulation.

In 1963, American creator and poet Sylvia Plath was found lifeless in her London flat, a suicide she was 30.

In 1975, Margaret Thatcher was elected chief of Britain’s opposition Conservative Get together.

In 1979, followers of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (hoh-MAY’-nee) seized electric power in Iran.

In 1990, South African Black activist Nelson Mandela was freed right after 27 a long time in captivity.

In 2006, Vice President Dick Cheney unintentionally shot and wounded Harry Whittington, a companion during a weekend quail-searching vacation in Texas.

In 2008, the Pentagon billed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (HAH’-leed shayk moh-HAH’-med) and 5 other detainees at Guantanamo Bay with murder and war crimes in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks.

In 2011, Egypt exploded with joy soon after pro-democracy protesters introduced down President Hosni Mubarak, whose resignation ended 3 many years of authoritarian rule.

In 2020, the Environment Overall health Corporation gave the official identify of COVID-19 to the disease brought about by the coronavirus that had emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

Ten decades ago: Pop singer Whitney Houston, 48, was observed dead in a resort place bathtub in Beverly Hills, California.

Five a long time in the past: Yale University announced it would modify the name of a residential higher education honoring 19th-century alumnus and former U.S. Vice President John C. Calhoun, who was an ardent supporter of slavery.

1 year back: At the Senate impeachment demo of former President Donald Trump, Democrats asserted that Trump had incited an attack on the U.S. Capitol, put his possess vice president in threat and expressed solidarity with rioters who sought to overturn the 2020 election in his name. President Joe Biden ended the “national emergency” that Trump experienced declared in purchase to take revenue from the Pentagon for a wall together the Mexican border. California surpassed New York as the condition with the most coronavirus deaths. An Alabama inmate received a reprieve from a lethal injection just after the Supreme Court claimed the condition could not continue with out his pastor in the demise chamber. (Willie B. Smith III would be executed in Oct 2021.) Sister André, a French nun who was believed to be the world’s next-oldest man or woman, celebrated her 117th birthday at a treatment home in France right after surviving COVID-19. A British choose ruled that a newspaper invaded the privacy of the Duchess of Sussex, the previous Meghan Markle, by publishing a personal letter to her estranged father.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor Conrad Janis is 94. Gospel singer Jimmy Carter is 90. Actor Tina Louise is 88. Trend designer Mary Quant is 88. Bandleader Sergio Mendes is 81. Actor Philip Anglim is 70. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is 69. Actor Catherine Hickland is 66. Rock musician David Uosikkinen (aw-SIK’-ken-ihn) (The Hooters) is 66. Actor Carey Lowell is 61. Singer Sheryl Crow is 60. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is 58. Actor Jennifer Aniston is 53. Actor Damian Lewis is 51. Actor Marisa Petroro is 50. Singer D’Angelo is 48. Actor Brice Beckham is 46. Rock M-C/vocalist Mike Shinoda (Linkin Park) is 45. Singer-actor Brandy is 43. Region musician Jon Jones (The Eli Younger Band) is 42. Actor Matthew Lawrence is 42. R&B singer Kelly Rowland is 41. Actor Natalie Dormer is 40. Singer Aubrey O’Day is 38. Actor Q’orianka (kohr-ee-AHN’-kuh) Kilcher is 32. Actor Taylor Lautner is 30.