Historical Events on February 11 (Part 2)

Event of Interest

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 (Arab Spring)

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak — Egyptian President
Hosni Mubarak

Event of Interest

2013 Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation from February 28, the first pope to resign since 1415

265th Pope Benedict XVI — 265th Pope
Benedict XVI

2014 11 people are killed after a grenade was tossed into a movie theatre in Peshawar, Pakistan
2014 77 people are killed after a military transport plane crashes in Algeria
2014 Peace talks resume in Geneva as leaders attempt to bring an end to the civil war in Syria
2014 Slopestyle freestyle skiing event makes Olympic debut at Sochi Winter Games; Canadian Dara Howell is inaugural women's gold medallist
2015 Francesco Schettino, Captain of the Costa Concordia that ran aground 2012, is convicted of manslaughter in Grosseto and sentenced to 16 years in jail
2016 Discover of gravitational waves (through collision of two black holes) announced by physicists from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (Ligo)
2016 Riot between rival drug cartels at a prison in Monterrey, Mexico, leaves 52 dead
2016 Last of Oregon militia occupying Malheur wildlife refuge surrenders to authorities after 41 days
2016 Sixth Democratic presidential candidates debate, broadcast on CNN and PBS, and held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2018 Dutchman Sven Kramer becomes only male speed skater to win same Olympic event 3 times, claiming gold in the 5,000m at Pyongchang; first man to win total 8 Olympic medals in the sport
2018 Russian airliner crashes south-east of Moscow, killing all 71 on board

Event of Interest

2018 MOMA opens a major solo exhibition for Brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral in New York

2018 Norway sweeps the medals in the Olympic 30k cross country skiathlon at Pyeongchang; Simen Hegstad Krüger wins gold ahead of teammates Martin Johnsrud Sundby & Hans Christer Holund
2019 Artificial Intelligence system meant to assist diagnosis in the future, pitted against physicians in test to diagnose 600,000 patients in results published in "Nature Medicine", A.I. won, just
2020 Snow falls in Baghdad, Iraq, for only the second time in a century

Event of Interest

2020 Bernie Sanders wins the New Hampshire Democratic primary

US Senator Bernie Sanders — US Senator
Bernie Sanders

2020 US attorney general, William Barr recommends cutting suggested sentence of Roger Stone, prompting prosecutors to resign
2020 Largest wave ever surfed by a woman by Brazilian Maya Ganeira riding a 73.5ft (22.4m) wave at Nazaré, Portugal