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February 11: Little New Year in southern China (2026); National Foundation Day in Japan
Location of the Carnival tragedy of 1823
- 1584 – Spanish explorer Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa founded the town of Nombre de Jesús, the first of two short-lived colonies at the Strait of Magellan.
- 1823 – Around 110 boys were killed in a human crush at the Convent of the Minori Osservanti (corridor pictured) in Valletta on the last day of the Maltese Carnival.
- 1938 – The BBC aired an adaptation of a section of Czech writer Karel Čapek's play R.U.R. in the first broadcast of science fiction on television.
- 2015 – Turkish student Özgecan Aslan was murdered during a rape attempt, sparking mass demonstrations across the country after her body was discovered two days later.
- 2018 – Saratov Airlines Flight 703 crashed shortly after take-off in Russia due to icing conditions, killing all 71 people on board.
- Ellen Day Hale (b. 1855; d. 1940)
- Ellen Broe (b. 1900)
- Heinz Winbeck (b. 1946)
- Kelly Rowland (b. 1981)
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