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February 11

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In 1752, The first American hospital opened in Philadelphia.

In 1812, the Massachusetts legislature, acting at the behest of Gov. Elbridge Gerry, passed a redistricting law favorable to Gerr's party, an action that resulted in the coining of the term "gerrymandering."

In 1847, inventor Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio.

In 1858, a French girl, Bernadette Soubirous, claimed for the first time to have seen a vision of the Virgin Mary near Lourdes.


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Movie director Joseph L. Mankiewicz ("All about Eve") (1909)

Actress Eva Gabor  (1921)

Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, [D-Texas]  (1921)

Actor Burt Reynolds  (1936)

Musician Sergio Mendes  (1941)

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"In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attiention."
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Simone Weil, French philosopher  (1909-1943)