Feb 11

February 11

660 BC		Traditional founding of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno. Survey of current trends in the abuse of psychotropic substances and plants in Japan doi:10.1016/j.legalmed.2011.02.003
1805		Sixteen-year-old Sacajawea, the Shoshoni guide for Lewis & Clark, gives birth to a son, with Meriwether Lewis serving as midwife. http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/inside/saca.html
1858		14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous, a French miller’s daughter, claims to have seen an apparition of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes.
1910		Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Eleanor Alexander announce their wedding date–June 20, 1910.
1953		Walt Disney’s film Peter Pan premieres.
1954		A 75,000-watt light bulb is lit at the Rockefeller Center in New York, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Thomas Edison’s first light bulb.
1990		South African political leader Nelson Mandela is released from prison in Paarl, South Africa, after serving more than 27 years of a life sentence.
1847		Thomas Alva Edison, prolific American inventor who jointly or singly held over 1,300 patents.