THIS DAY IN HISTORY: South Vietnam and the U.S. begin bombing raids on North Vietnam

February 11th - On this day in history......

- 1858: French peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous said the Virgin Mary appeared to her at Lourdes. In December 1933, the pope proclaimed Bernadette a saint.
- 1929: Lateran treaty signed in Italy recognized the sovereignty of Vatican City.
- 1929: Miss Bobbi Trout, an 18-year-old "Tomboy" who took up flying to avoid dish-washing, broke three world aviation records.
- 1941: Glenn Miller's Chattanooga Choo Choo was awarded the first gold record, given for sales of 1 million copies.
- 1945: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin ended a wartime conference at Yalta.
- 1965: U.S. and South Vietnamese planes made their first bombing raids on North Vietnam.
- 1970: Japan put a satellite, Ohsumi, in space, following the Soviet Union, the United States and France.
- 1990: Nelson Mandela, leader of the movement to end South African apartheid, was released after 27 years in prison.
- 1993: British Prime Minister John Major said Queen Elizabeth II would pay income tax on her personal income as well as being subject to capital and inheritance levies.
- 2006: U.S. adventurer Steve Fossett broke the solo flight record when he landed near Bournemouth, England, covering 24,997 miles after taking off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida four days earlier.
- 2009: Llong, bitter political fight in Zimbabwe apparently was resolved when President Robert Mugabe swore in opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai as prime minister.
- 2011: Hosni Mubarak stepped down after nearly 30 years as president of Egypt, bowing to intense public pressure to resign after 18 days of massive, often violent protests that spawned a reported death toll of more than 800 people. Mubarak, 82, ceded power to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
- 2012: Whitney Houston, an American pop singing star who sold millions of albums and starred in movies, was found dead in a Beverly Hills, Calif., hotel room. The Los Angeles coroner said the 48-year-old entertainer died of accidental drowning in her bathtub but that cocaine and heart disease also played a role.
- 2014: Algerian Hercules C-130 military plane crashed into a mountain in eastern Algeria, killing 77 people, including civilians. There was one survivor, a soldier.
- 2016: Last four remaining armed occupiers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon surrendered after a 41-day standoff that left one dead.
- 2018: Passenger jet carrying 71 people on board crashed after takeoff from a Moscow airport, killing all on board.
- 2024: Kansas City Chiefs won their second Super Bowl in a row in a 25-22 defeat of the San Francisco 49ers at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. Quarterback Patrick Mahomes was named MVP.