Born This Day In History 11th February

Celebrating Birthday's Today


Manuel Noriega


Born: Manuel Noriega 11th February 1934 Panama City, Panama



Known For : Manuel Noriega was the former self proclaimed military dictator of Panama from 1983 to 1989. Like many before and many since his rise to power was supported in earlier years by the United States with the Central Intelligence Agency with the nickname of "rent-a-colonel". But in 1989 following his voiding the Panama Presidential Elections ( Claiming "foreign interference," ) the U.S. first imposed economic sanctions and on 20th December 1989 The United States launched an invasion of Panama. Noriega was captured and detained as a prisoner of war, and later taken to the United States. In 1992 he was convicted under federal charges of cocaine trafficking, racketeering, and money laundering in Miami, Florida and Sentenced he is serving his sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution, Miami, Florida.









Burt Reynolds


Born: Burton Leon Reynolds, 11th February 1936 Lansing, Michigan, United States




Known For : American Actor who has been in the Entertainment Business for four decades and has been in more than 90 movies including The Dukes of Hazzard, The Longest Yard, Boogie Nights, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and Smokey and The Bandit. Acting was his second choice of career forced on him when he tore the cartilage in his knee early in his College Football Career as an all-star halfback. Following the end of his Football Career he won Florida State Drama Award which included a scholarship to the Hyde Park Playhouse which started him on his way in acting.