| 16321 | February 11 | Event | 1971 – Eighty-seven countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union, sign the Seabed Arms Control Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters. |
| 16322 | February 11 | Event | 1973 – Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place. |
| 16323 | February 11 | Event | 1978 – Censorship: China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens. |
| 16324 | February 11 | Event | 1979 – The Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. |
| 16325 | February 11 | Event | 1981 – Around 100,000 US gallons (380 m3) of radioactive coolant leak into the containment building of TVA Sequoyah 1 nuclear plant in Tennessee, contaminating eight workers. |
| 16326 | February 11 | Event | 1990 – Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner. |
| 16327 | February 11 | Event | 1990 – Buster Douglas, a 40:1 underdog, knocks out Mike Tyson in ten rounds at Tokyo to win boxing's world Heavyweight title and cause one of the largest upsets in sports history. |
| 16328 | February 11 | Event | 1997 – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. |
| 16329 | February 11 | Event | 2001 – A Dutch programmer launched the Anna Kournikova virus infecting millions of emails via a trick photo of the tennis star. |
| 16330 | February 11 | Event | 2008 – Rebel East Timorese soldiers seriously wound President José Ramos-Horta. Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado is killed in the attack. |
| 16331 | February 11 | Event | 2008 – Namdaemun, a 550-year-old gate in South Korea, was toppled by fire. |
| 16332 | February 11 | Event | 2011 – The first wave of the Egyptian revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 18 days of protests. |
| 16333 | February 11 | Event | 2014 – A military transport plane crashes in a mountainous area of Oum El Bouaghi Province in eastern Algeria, killing 77 people. |
| 16334 | February 11 | Event | 2015 – A university student was murdered as she resisted an attempted rape in Turkey, sparking nationwide protests and public outcry against harassment and violence against women. |
| 16335 | February 11 | Birth | 1380 – Poggio Bracciolini, Italian scholar and translator (d. 1459) |
| 16336 | February 11 | Birth | 1466 – Elizabeth of York (d. 1503) |
| 16337 | February 11 | Birth | 1535 – Pope Gregory XIV (d. 1591) |
| 16338 | February 11 | Birth | 1568 – Honoré d'Urfé, French author and playwright (d. 1625) |
| 16339 | February 11 | Birth | 1637 – Friedrich Nicolaus Bruhns, German composer and director (d. 1718) |
| 16340 | February 11 | Birth | 1649 – William Carstares, Scottish minister and academic (d. 1715) |
| 16341 | February 11 | Birth | 1657 – Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, French poet and playwright (d. 1757) |
| 16342 | February 11 | Birth | 1708 – Egidio Duni, Italian composer (d. 1775) |
| 16343 | February 11 | Birth | 1755 – Albert Christoph Dies, German composer and painter (d. 1822) |
| 16344 | February 11 | Birth | 1764 – Joseph Chénier, French poet and playwright (d. 1811) |
| 16345 | February 11 | Birth | 1774 – Maxim Gauci, Maltese lithographer (d. 1854) |
| 16346 | February 11 | Birth | 1776 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, Greek politician, 1st Governor of Greece (d. 1831) |
| 16347 | February 11 | Birth | 1796 – Giovanni Pacini, Italian composer (d. 1867) |
| 16348 | February 11 | Birth | 1799 – Basil Moreau, French priest, founded the Congregation of Holy Cross (d. 1873) |
| 16349 | February 11 | Birth | 1800 – Henry Fox Talbot, English photographer, invented the calotype (d. 1877) |
| 16350 | February 11 | Birth | 1802 – Lydia Maria Child, American journalist, author, and activist (d. 1880) |