Five Things You Need to Know Today Feb.11, 2011

1) St. Valentine's Day is Monday. Today is Friday. Click on this  link for great ideas.

2) Father-daughter dance at Sunset Hills Community Center on the City Hall campus starts at 7pm until 9pm. $15 per couple, $5 each additional daughter.

3) Lindbergh High School boys basketball team plays at Parkway South High School in Chesterfield, 5:30pm.

4) Today is the 261st anniversary of the first hospital opened in the U.S. by Benjamin Franklin in Pennsylvania, the 69th anniversary of the first-ever gold record presented to Glenn Miller for Chattanooga Choo Choo, the 21st anniversary of Nelson Mandela's release after 27 years in prison, in South Africa. 

5) Today is National Inventor's Day.