February 11

This day in history:

• 660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.
• 1584 – A naval expedition led by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa founds Nombre de Jesús, the first of two short-lived Spanish settlements in the Strait of Magellan.
• 55 – The death under mysterious circumstances of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman Empire, on the eve of his coming of age clears the way for Nero to become Emperor.
• 1586 – Sir Francis Drake with an English force captures and occupies the Spanish colonial port of Cartagena de Indias for two months, obtaining a ransom and booty.

Births:

• 1466 – Elizabeth of York (d. 1503)
• 1535 – Pope Gregory XIV (d. 1591)
• 1380 – Poggio Bracciolini, Italian scholar and translator (d. 1459)

Deaths:

• 1898 – Félix María Zuloaga, Mexican general and unconstitutional interim president (b. 1813)
• 1795 – Carl Michael Bellman, Swedish poet and composer (b. 1740)
• 1829 – Alexander Griboyedov, Russian poet, playwright, and composer (b. 1795)

Random Article of the day:
Culmination

In observational astronomy, culmination is the passage of a celestial object (such as the Sun, the Moon, a planet, a star, constellation or a deep-sky object) across the observer's local meridian. These events were also known as meridian transits, used in timekeeping and navigation, and measured precisely using a transit telescope.
During each day, every celestial object appears to move along a circular path on the celestial sphere due to the Earth's rotation creating two moments when it crosses the meridian. Except at the geographic poles, any celestial object passing through the meridian has an upper culmination, when it reaches its highest point (the moment when it is nearest to the Zenith), and nearly twelve hours later, is followed by a lower culmination, when it reaches its lowest point (nearest to the Nadir). The time of culmination (when the object culminates) is often used to mean upper culmination.An object's altitude (A) in degrees at its upper culmination is equal to 90 minus the observer's latitude (L) plus the object's declination (δ):

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