A few months after the first known case was detected in Wuhan, China, and approximately three weeks after the first U.

Whitney Houston, one of the world’s top-selling singers from the mid-1980s to late 1990s, is found dead in the bathtub of her suite at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on February 11, 2012.

In February 2011, Egypt found itself at the heart of a historic transformation, as millions of citizens rallied in Tahrir Square, demanding the end of President Hosni Mubarak's nearly 30-year autocratic rule.

In 1979, a watershed moment in Middle Eastern history unfolded as followers of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini seized power in Iran, marking the end of the Pahlavi monarchy and the establishment of an Islamic Republic.

In 1975, a significant turning point in British politics occurred with the election of Margaret Thatcher as the leader of the Conservative Party.

From the Kagoshima Space Center on the east coast of Japan’s Ohsumi Peninsula, Ohsumi, Japan’s first satellite, is successfully launched into an orbit around Earth.

On February 11, 1963, Julia Child’s “The French Chef” debuts on public television in the U.

The Payola scandal reaches a new level of public prominence and legal gravity on February 11, 1960, when President Eisenhower called it an issue of public morality and the FCC proposed a new law making involvement in Payola a criminal act.

On February 11, 1945, a week of intensive bargaining by the leaders of the three major Allied powers ends in Yalta, a Soviet resort town on the Black Sea.

In a landmark victory for labor rights, the six-week-long sit-down strike against General Motors concluded on February 11, 1937.