Today in history 1990 February 11, 575

Mondo History Updated on 2024-02-11

On February 11, 1990, Chinese athletes won the championship at the World Women's Speed Skating Championships for the first time. Chinese speed skater Wang Xiuli won the first place in the women's 1500m speed skating at the World Women's Speed Skating Championships in Calgary, Canada, with a time of 2:03.34.

On February 11, 1975, the British Conservative Party elected its first female leader, and former Education Secretary Margaret Thatcher defeated former Prime Minister Edward Heath and 14 other contenders. Margaret Thatcher was the daughter of a food merchant who won a scholarship at a public school and later studied chemistry at Oxford. She is politically enthusiastic, married, has a son and a daughter (twins), and obtained a law degree before entering Parliament. She advocated strict control of public spending and limits on union demands. She is familiar with domestic politics and rarely expresses her views on international issues. It is generally believed that being the leader of the party is only one step away from becoming prime minister. The Treaty Banning Nuclear Tests on the Bottom of the Sea, or the Treaty Banning the Establishment of Nuclear Tests and Other Mass Destruction on the Bottom of the Sea and the Ocean Floor and Below, was signed on 11 February 1971 by 63 States in ceremonies held in Washington, London and Moscow. The Treaty was adopted by the 25th session of the United Nations General Assembly on 7 December 1970 and entered into force on 18 May 1972. The treaty prohibits the placement and testing of nuclear and mass destruction** on the seabed of the high seas beyond 12 nautical miles of the coastline and allows the signatory to supervise the "activities" of any other signatory State on the seabed beyond 12 nautical miles of the coastline.

Hanyu Pinyin Scheme is the legal Pinyin scheme of the People's Republic of China, which was researched and formulated by the "Hanyu Pinyin Scheme Committee" of the Chinese Character Reform Committee from 1955 to 1957, approved and promulgated by the National People's Congress on February 11, 1958, and recognized by the International Organization for Standardization as an international standard for spelling Chinese in 1982.

Ma Sanli (October 1, 1914, February 11, 2003), Hui nationality, the fifth generation of Chinese cross talk actors, famous cross talk performance art masters. Born in Beijing, there are more than 200 ancestral hometowns in Yongsheng, Gansu, mainly including "Eating Lantern Festival", "Face", "Selling Five Instruments", "Opening a Porridge Factory" and so on. He has created, adapted and performed sixty or seventy new cross talk programs, including "Buying a Monkey" and "Home Remedies for Healing". Over the years, he has cultivated many cross talk actors such as Yan Xiaoru, Ban Degui, Lian Xiaokun, Fang Xiaotian, Chang Baohua, Gao Xiaolin, etc. He died of illness in Tianjin in 2003 at the age of 90.

Xiao Qian (January 27, 1910, February 11, 1999), Mongolian, formerly known as Xiao Bingqian and Xiao Bingqian, is a world-famous journalist, accomplished translator, writer, and a famous envoy of cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries. Born in Beijing in 1910, he entered Furen University in Peking in 1931 and transferred to Yenching University in 1933. In 1935, he graduated from Yan University and worked in Ta Kung Pao. In 1939, he went to England and became a war correspondent. There are famous reports such as "London under the Silver Kite". In 1949, Xiao Qian returned to Beijing, and during the Cultural Revolution, he was deeply affected by his lover and was later rehabilitated. In 1999, Xiao Qian died of myocardial infarction in Beijing at the age of 89. His main works include "Under the Fence", "Valley of Dreams", "Hundred Flavors of Life", "A Fading Album", "Shakespeare's Drama Stories", "Ulysses" and so on.

The Commercial Press (CP), the oldest publishing institution in China's publishing industry, was founded in Shanghai on February 11, 1897 and moved to Beijing in 1954. In 1958, the business division of China publishing houses undertook the publishing tasks of translating and publishing foreign philosophy and social sciences and compiling and publishing dictionaries in Chinese and foreign languages, and gradually formed a publishing pattern with translated works represented by "Chinese translation of world academic classics" and "biographies of world celebrities", and Chinese and foreign language dictionaries represented by "Ciyuan", "Xinhua Dictionary", "Modern Chinese Dictionary" and "Yinghua Dictionary" as the main pillars.

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was a world-famous American electrician, scientist and inventor, known as the "World Invention King". In addition to his inventions and contributions to the phonograph, electric light, telegraph, film, etc., he also has many famous creations and insights in the fields of mining, construction, and chemical industry. Edison and his employees have made more than 1,000 inventions and creations in their lifetimes, making great contributions to human civilization and progress. On October 18, 1931, Edison died in West Orange at the age of 84, and on October 21, 1931, the lights were turned off in mourning across the United States.

Flavius Heraclius (575 – 11 February 641), Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire (reigned 5 October 610 – 11 February 641), was born into an Armenian family. Traditionally, Heraclius is considered to be the architect of the military system, the Saima system, while modern scholars believe that it was established during the reign of Emperor Constans II. Heraclius was in a difficult position, and just as he was about to make a big move, he ran into the almost invincible prophet Muhammad and watched large swaths of the empire fall away. By the time the armies of the Arab Empire appeared on the border, Heraclius was seriously ill and his generals had been defeated, and by the time of Heraclius' death, the Arabs had occupied Syria and Palestine, and Egypt had almost completely fallen.

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