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February 11

660 BC Traditional founding of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno.

1805 Sixteen-year-old Sacajawea, the Shoshoni guide for Lewis & Clark, gives birth to a son, with Meriwether Lewis serving as midwife.

1858 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous, a French miller's daughter, claims to have seen an apparition of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes.

1926 The Mexican government nationalizes all church property.

1951 U.N. forces push north across the 38th parallel for the second time in the Korean War.

1953 Walt Disney's film Peter Pan premieres.

1966Vice President Hubert Humphrey begins a tour of Vietnam.(my third cousin)

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.

Born on February 11

1847 Thomas Alva Edison, prolific American inventor who jointly or singly held over 1,300 patents.

1898 Leo Szilard, physicist, instrumental in the Manhattan Project.


JOTD

My lesbian neighbors gave me a Rolex for my birthday.

I guess they misunderstood me when I said I wanna watch.