Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Wednesday, February 11, 2026 falls on a Wednesday. It is day 42 of the year, ISO week 7, in Q1.

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Wednesday, February 11

February 11, 2026 is day 42 of 365, ISO week 7, in Q1. The moon is Last Quarter and the zodiac sign is Aquarius.

Day of year42
ISO week7
QuarterQ1
Days left323

Sun and Moon Cycles

Moon phase
Last Quarter
Lunar age
23.9 days
Illumination
32%
Season
Winter in the Northern Hemisphere, summer in the Southern Hemisphere

Zodiac and Holidays

Zodiac
Aquarius
Observances
No major fixed observance in the built-in calendar
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Today's Celebrations

February 11
Observance Blaise Eastern Orthodox liturgics
Observance Cædmon, first recorded Christian poet in England, c. 680 CE (Anglicanism)
Observance Gobnait
Observance Gregory II
Observance Lazarus of Milan
Observance Peter of Jesus Maldonado
Observance Soteris
Observance February 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Wednesday, February 11, 2026 combines practical calendar facts with a wider view of the day: 2018: Saratov Airlines Flight 703 crashed shortly after take-off in Russia due to icing conditions, killing all 71 people on board.. Use it to check the date, plan across time zones, and scan the observances and historical markers attached to February 11.

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History for February 11

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Saratov Airlines Flight 703 crashed shortly after take-off in Russia due to icing conditions, killing all 71 people on board.

Turkish student Özgecan Aslan was murdered during a rape attempt, sparking mass demonstrations across the country after her body was discovered two days later.

Rebel East Timorese soldiers invaded the homes of President José Ramos-Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão, seriously wounding the former.

The computer worm Anna Kournikova, which would affect millions of users worldwide, was released by a 20-year-old Dutch student.

Anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela, having been a political prisoner for 27 years, was released from Victor Verster Prison near Paarl, South Africa.

The Frente de Liberación Homosexual made their final public appearance, shortly before the group's dissolution due to political repression after the Argentine coup d'état.

The BBC aired an adaptation of a section of Czech writer Karel Čapek's play R.U.R. in the first broadcast of science fiction on television.

Friedrich Ebert was elected the provisional president of Germany by the Weimar National Assembly.

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