February 11

 Holidays and Observances
(Alphabetical Order)

2025 Daily Holidays that fall on February 11, include: 

• Cigarettes are Hazardous to Your Health Day 
• Eagle Day - January 11, 2025 (Second Saturday in January)
• Girl Hug Boy Day 
• Heritage Treasures Day (U.K.) 
  
• Hot Toddy Day
  
• International Parity at Work Day 
• International Thank-You Day 
• Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day 
  
• Milk Day 
• National Arkansas Day 
• National Human Trafficking Awareness Day 
• National Joel Day
• National Step in a Puddle and Splash Your Friend Day 
• National Tara Day
• National Vision Board Day - January 11, 2025 (Second Saturday in January)
• No Longer New Year's Day 
• Paget's Awareness Day - (Bone Disease)
• Secret Pal Day 
  
• World Sketchnote Day 

2025 Weekly Holidays that include February 11, are:

• Celebration of Love Week - February 9-15, 2025 (Second Full Week in February)
• Children of Alcoholics Week - February 9-15, 2025 (Second Full Week in February)
• Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week - February 7-14 
  
• Freelance Writers Appreciation Week - February 9-15, 2025 (Second Week of February)
• Getting Dizzy Week - February 8-14
  
• Great American Pizza Bake - February 9-15, 2025 (Second Full Week of February)
• Have a Heart for Chained Dogs Week - February 7-14
• Heart Failure Awareness Week - February 9-15, 2025 (Week of Valentine's Day)
• Homes for Birds Week - February 9-15, 2025 (Second Full Week of February)
• International Flirting Week - February 9-15, 2025 (Week of  Valentines Day)
• International Week of Black Women In the Arts - February 7-15
  
• Jell-O Week - February 9-15, 2025 (Second Full Week of February)
• Kraut and Frankfurter Week - February 9-15, 2025 (Second Full Week of February)
• Love a Mensch Week - February 7-14
  
• Love Data Week - February 10-14, 2025 (During the Week of Valentines Day)
• Love Makes the World Go Round, but Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week - February 8-14
• National Cardiac Rehabilitation Week - February 9-15, 2025 - (Second Week of February, the Week of Valentines Day)
  
• National Chastity Week - February 9-15, 2025 (Week of Valentines Day)
• National Date Week (Fruit) - February 11-20
• National Entrepreneurship Week - February 9-15, 2025 (Third Week of February)
• National Green Week - February 4 - April 30, 2025 (Start First Full Week in February to April 30)
  
• National Hero Week - February 9-15, 2025 (Second Full Week of February)
• National Marriage Week USA - February 7-14
• National New Idea Week - February 9-15, 2025 (Second Full Week of February)
• National Salute to Veteran Patients - February 9-15, 2025 (Week of February 14 - Valentine's Day)
• National Secondhand Wardrobe Week - February 9-15, 2025 (Second Full Week in February)
• National Week of Chastity - February 9-15, 2025 (Week of Valentine's Day)
• Pickle Time Week - February 9-15, 2025 (Second Full Week of February)
• Risk Awareness Week - February 7-14
  
• Student Volunteering Week (United Kingdom) - February 10-16, 2025
• Take a Friend Snowmobiling Week - February 8-17, 2025
• Valentine's Week - February 7-14

2025 Monthly Holidays that include February 11, are:

There are too many monthly holidays to include here, so please check out our February Holidays page to see all of the holidays that are celebrated the entire month of February.

NOTE:

1. A page on each holiday will be coming soon and linked above.
2. If a date is a movable holiday, that is different every year, I'll include the year as well as the date rule above. Otherwise, the holiday falls on the same date each year.

World Festivals and Events
(Date Order)

• Harbin Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival - Usually starts annually on January 5, and typically runs for a month or more, in Harbin, China and is the largest ice and snow festival in the world! 2025 dates are December 25, 2024 - Late February / Early March, 2025, depending on weather conditions. 
• Chinese New Year Festival and Parade (San Francisco, CA) - January 29 - February 16, 2025, Parade is on February 15, 2025
  
• Invictus Games - February 8-16, 2025
  
• Westminster Dog Show - February 8 and February 10-11, 2025
• World AG Expo - February 11-13, 2025 (Held in Tulare, CA)

Astrological Sign

The Astrological Sign for February 11 is an Aquarius.

Birth Flower of the Month

The Birth Flower(s) for the Month for February are:

• Violet - symbolizes faithfulness, loyalty, humility, wisdom, and hope
  
• Primrose - Modesty, distinction, and virtue
  
  

Birthstone

The Birthstone for February is Amethyst.

Famous Birthdays

• 1812 – Alexander Hamilton Stephens, American politician, Vice President of the Confederate States of America and 50th Governor of Georgia (d. 1883)
• 1847 – Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor of  the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, electric light bulb (d. 1931)
• 1917 – Sidney Sheldon, American author (d. 2007)
• 1926 – Leslie Nielsen, Canadian actor (The Poseidon Adventure, Airplane, The Naked Gun) (d. 2010)
• 1936 – Burt Reynolds, American actor (Smokey and the Bandit, The Longest Yard, Boogie Nights)
• 1962 – Sheryl Crow, American musician
• 1964 – Sarah Palin, American politician and 9th Governor of Alaska
• 1969 – Jennifer Aniston, American actress (Friends, Office Space, Bruce Almighty, The Break Up, Marley and Me)
• 1972 – Kelly Slater, American surfer
• 1979 – Brandy, American singer and actress

Famous Deaths

• 2006 – Peter Benchley, American author of Jaws, The Deep, and The Island (b. 1940)
• 2010 – Alexander McQueen, English fashion designer (b. 1969)
• 2012 – Whitney Houston, American singer, actress (The Bodyguard), model and producer (b. 1963)

R.I.P. Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You, from the movie, The Bodyguard with Kevin Costner

Famous Weddings and Divorces

• 1965 - Ringo Starr marries his first wife, Maureen Cox
• 2000 - Diana Ross officially divorces her husband, Norwegian businessman Arne Naess

Quote of the Day

Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847.  He invented the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb.  He has many great quotes.

He has another couple of great quotes relative to the one above: "I have not failed, I have just found 10,000 ways that won't work" and "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up".  The word, Perseverance, comes to my mind!

Healthy Diet Habit Tip of the Day 
or a Recipe of the Day

The Holidays and Observances Recipe of the Day for February 11, is a Vegetable Fried Rice Recipe, from Kerry at Healthy Diet Habits. (link opens in her website)

This Day in History

• 1752 – Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the United States, is opened by Benjamin Franklin
• 1794 – First session of United States Senate open to the public.
• 1809 - Robert Fulton patents steamboat
• 1854 - Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time
• 1878 - The 1st US bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms
• 1916 – Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on birth control.
• 1936 - Pumping begins to build Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay
• 1942 - "Archie" comic book debuts
• 1943 – General Dwight Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe, during World War II
• 1963 - CIA Domestic Operations Division created
• 1963 - Julia Child's show The French Chef premieres.
• 1971 - US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons
• 1973 – Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place.
• 1990 – Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.
• 1997 – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope
• 2017 - North Korea test fires a ballistic missile across the Sea of Japan
• 2018 - Saratov Airlines Flight 702 has 71 deaths when it crashes near Moscow, Russia

This Day in Music

• 1942 – The first gold record is presented to Glenn Miller for Chattanooga Choo Choo.
• 1964 - The Beatles play their first US concert at the Washington Coliseum, in Washington, DC. The setlist includes, I Saw Her Standing There, All My Loving, and Twist And Shout.
• 1967 - The Monkees' album More of the Monkees hits #1
• 1967 - The Turtles, Happy Together is released
• 1979 - ABC airs their TV-movie Elvis, starring Kurt Russell.
• 1983 - Bob Seger's The Distance is certified platinum.
• 2007 - Dixie Chicks take home five awards during the 49th Grammy Awards.

The Dixie Chicks, are an all Female, American Country Music group. One of my favorite songs of theirs, is Cowboy Take Me Away, shown above.  I also love their, Wide Open Spaces song.

This Day in Sports

• 1928 - 2nd Winter Olympic games opens in St Moritz, Switzerland
• 1966 - San Francisco Giant Willie Mays signs highest contract, $130,000 per year
• 1969 - Diana Crump becomes 1st US woman jockey to ride against men, Hialelah
• 1984 - Wayne Gretzky sets NHL short handed season scoring record at 11
• 1986 - Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
• 1987 - England beat Australia 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
• 1989 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
• 1990 - James "Buster" Douglas KOs Mike Tyson in 10 to win heavyweight boxing crown
• 1990 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
• 1995 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge

Word of the Day from Wiktionary

Wishing You a Great Day Today!