Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 11
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February 11: National Foundation Day in Japan
- 1808 - Anthracite coal was first experimentally burned as a residential heating fuel by Jesse Fell in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
- 1919 - Friedrich Ebert (pictured) became the first Reichspräsident of the Weimar Republic.
- 1929 - The first Lateran treaty was signed, establishing Vatican City as an independent sovereign enclave within Italy.
- 1971 - Eighty-seven countries signed the Seabed Arms Control Treaty, outlawing weapons of mass destruction on the ocean floor in international waters.
- 1979 - Iranian Revolution: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini seized power in Iran, and eventually became the Supreme Leader of the Islamic republic.
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