Today is Tuesday, Feb. 11, the 42nd day of 2025. There are 323 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On Feb. 11, 1990, South African anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in prison. (Mandela would be elected president of South Africa four years later.)
Also on this date:
In 1847, American inventor Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio.
