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February 11

4 sourced moments from February 11 in history: Thomas Edison is born in Milan, Ohio (1847); The Lateran Treaty creates Vatican City (1929); Ruth Carol Taylor becomes the first Black flight attendant (1958), plus 1 more.

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4 things happened on February 11

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1990 History · Modern

Mandela's 27 years in prison: where he spent them

Nelson Mandela walked out of Victor Verster Prison on 11 February 1990 after 27 years in custody, only about 18 of them on Robben Island.

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1958 History · Modern

Ruth Carol Taylor becomes the first Black flight attendant

In 1958 a young nurse stepped aboard a Mohawk Airlines flight and quietly broke aviation's color barrier in mid-air.

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1929 Geography · Countries

The Lateran Treaty creates Vatican City

Italy and the Holy See ended a 59-year standoff by carving out the world's smallest sovereign state — barely a quarter of a square mile.

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1847 Technology · Inventions

Thomas Edison is born in Milan, Ohio

The future holder of a record 1,093 patents arrived in a small Ohio canal town, three years before his family moved on.

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