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February 11, the day in history
On this day in 1945, the Yalta Conference ended.
Today is Friday, February 11, the forty second day of 2005.
There are 323 days left in the year.
Highlights in history on this date:
1919 - Friedrich Ebert was elected first president of the German republic. He helped set up the Weimar constitution that tried to unite Germany after World War One.
1929 - The Lateran Treaty was signed establishing an independent Vatican state in Rome.
1945 - The Yalta Conference ended. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt agreed on the founding of the United Nations and plans to defeat Germany in World War Two.
1971 - Forty nations signed a treaty banning atomic weapons from the sea bed. 1975 - Margaret Thatcher became the first woman to head a British political party when she was elected leader of the Conservatives.
1975 - President Richard Ratsimandrava of the Malagasy Republic, now Madagascar, was assassinated after only six days in office.
1979 - Iranian Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar resigned after two days of fighting in the streets of Tehran.
1990 - Nelson Mandela, black nationalist leader in South Africa, was released from prison after serving 27 years.
1994 - Five astronauts and a cosmonaut returned to Earth aboard Discovery after the first joint U.S.-Russian space shuttle mission.
2002 - The Vatican formalised its presence in Russia by creating four fully-fledged Catholic dioceses, shrugging off criticism from the Russian Orthodox Church that it is trying to steal converts.
2004 - South Korean and U.S. researchers announce that they have cloned a human embryo as a source of sought-after embryonic stem cells.
