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August 11 is the 223rd day of the year (224th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . 142 days remain until the end of the year.
3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar , used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Maya , begins.2492 BC – Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk , progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation.106 – The south-western part of Dacia (modern Romania ) becomes a Roman province : Roman Dacia .355 – Claudius Silvanus , accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius II .490 – Battle of Adda: The Goths under Theodoric the Great and his ally Alaric II defeat the forces of Odoacer on the Adda River , near Milan .1332 – Wars of Scottish Independence : Battle of Dupplin Moor : Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol .1473 – The Battle of Otlukbeli : Mehmed the Conqueror of the Ottoman Empire decisively defeats Uzun Hassan of Aq Qoyunlu .1675 – Franco-Dutch War : Forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle of Konzer Brücke .1786 – Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia .1804 – Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria .1812 – Peninsular War : French troops engage British -Portuguese forces in the Battle of Majadahonda .1813 – In Colombia , Juan del Corral declares the independence of Antioquia .1858 – The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.1898 – Spanish–American War : American troops enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico .1918 – World War I : The Battle of Amiens ends.1920 – The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty , which relinquished Russia 's authority and pretenses to Latvia , is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence .1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio .1934 – The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island .1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi .1945 – Poles in Kraków engage in a pogrom against Jews in the city, killing one and wounding five.1952 – Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan .1959 – Sheremetyevo International Airport , the second-largest airport in Russia, opens.1960 – Chad declares independence.1961 – The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli .1962 – Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity .1965 – Race riots (the Watts Riots ) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California .1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the moon.[1] 1972 – Vietnam War : The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam .1975 – East Timor : Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili , following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin .1979 – Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners.1982 – A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830 , en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii , killing one passenger and injuring 15 others.1984 – "We begin bombing in five minutes ": United States President Ronald Reagan , while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio .2000 – An air rage incident occurs on board Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 when 19-year-old Jonathan Burton attempts to storm the cockpit, but he is subdued by other passengers and dies from his injuries.[2] 2003 – NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan , marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.2003 – Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin , better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok , Thailand . 2006 – The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines , causing the country's worst oil spill .2012 – At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran .2017 – At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger trains collide in Alexandria , Egypt .1086 – Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1125)1384 – Yolande of Aragon (d. 1442)1472 – Nikolaus von Schönberg , Catholic cardinal (d. 1537)1510 – Margaret Paleologa , Sovereign Marchioness of Montferrat (d. 1566)1673 – Richard Mead , English physician and astrologer (d. 1754)1718 – Frederick Haldimand , Swiss-English general and politician, 22nd Governor of Quebec (d. 1791)1722 – Richard Brocklesby , English physician (d. 1797)1748 – Joseph Schuster , German composer (d. 1812)1778 – Friedrich Ludwig Jahn , Prussian gymnast, educator, and politician (d. 1852)1794 – James B. Longacre , American engraver (d. 1869)1807 – David Rice Atchison , American general, lawyer, and politician (d. 1886)1808 – William W. Chapman , American lawyer and politician (d. 1892)1816 – Frederick Innes , Scottish-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1882)1833 – Robert G. Ingersoll , American soldier, lawyer, and politician (d. 1899)1833 – Kido Takayoshi , Japanese samurai and politician (d. 1877) 1836 – Warren Brown , American historian and politician (d. 1919)1837 – Marie François Sadi Carnot , French engineer and politician, 4th President of the French Republic (d. 1894)1855 – John Hodges , Australian cricketer (d. 1933)1858 – Christiaan Eijkman , Dutch physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1930)1860 – Ottó Bláthy , Hungarian engineer and chess player (d. 1939)1870 – Tom Richardson , English cricketer (d. 1912)1874 – Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg (d. 1953)1877 – Adolph M. Christianson , American lawyer and judge (d. 1954)1878 – Oliver W. F. Lodge , English poet and author (d. 1955)1881 – Aleksander Aberg , Estonian wrestler (d. 1920)1884 – Hermann Wlach , Austrian-Swiss actor (d. 1962)1885 – Stephen Butterworth , English physicist and engineer (d. 1958)1891 – Stancho Belkovski , Bulgarian architect and educator (d. 1962)1891 – Edgar Zilsel , Austrian historian and philosopher of science, linked to the Vienna Circle (d. 1944) 1892 – Hugh MacDiarmid , Scottish poet and linguist (d. 1978)1892 – Eiji Yoshikawa , Japanese author (d. 1962) 1897 – Enid Blyton , English author, poet, and educator (d. 1968)1897 – Louise Bogan , American poet and critic (d. 1970) 1898 – Peter Mohr Dam , Faroese educator and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 1968)1900 – Philip Phillips , American archaeologist and scholar (d. 1994)1902 – Alfredo Binda , Italian cyclist (d. 1986)1902 – Lloyd Nolan , American actor (d. 1985) 1905 – Erwin Chargaff , Austrian-American biochemist and academic (d. 2002)1905 – Ernst Jaakson , Estonian diplomat (d. 1998) 1907 – Ted a'Beckett , Australian cricketer and lawyer (d. 1989)1908 – Don Freeman , American author and illustrator (d. 1978)1908 – Torgny T:son Segerstedt , Swedish sociologist and philosopher (d. 1999) 1909 – Yūji Koseki , Japanese composer (d. 1989)1909 – Uku Masing , Estonian philosopher and theologian (d. 1985) 1911 – Thanom Kittikachorn , Thai field marshal and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2004)1912 – Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs , German astronomer and academic (d. 1954)1912 – Raphael Blau , American screenwriter and producer (d. 1996) 1913 – Paul Dupuis , Canadian actor (d. 1976)1913 – Bob Scheffing , American baseball player and manager (d. 1985) 1913 – Angus Wilson , English author and academic (d. 1991) 1915 – Morris Weiss , American author and illustrator (d. 2014)1916 – Johnny Claes , English-Belgian race car driver and trumpet player (d. 1956)1919 – Luis Olmo , Puerto Rican-American baseball player and manager (d. 2017)1920 – Mike Douglas , American singer and talk show host (d. 2006)1920 – Chuck Rayner , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2002) 1921 – Alex Haley , American historian and author (d. 1992)1922 – John "Mule" Miles , American baseball player (d. 2013)1923 – Stan Chambers , American journalist and actor (d. 2015)1925 – Floyd Curry , Canadian ice hockey player and manager (d. 2006)1925 – Arlene Dahl , American actress, businesswoman and writer 1926 – Aaron Klug , Lithuanian-English chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)1927 – Raymond Leppard , English harpsichord player and conductor1927 – Stuart Rosenberg , American director and producer (d. 2007) 1932 – Fernando Arrabal , Spanish actor, director, and playwright1932 – Izzy Asper , Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician, founded Canwest (d. 2003) 1932 – Geoffrey Cass , English businessman 1932 – Peter Eisenman , American architect, designed the City of Culture of Galicia 1932 – John Gorrie , English director and screenwriter 1933 – Jerry Falwell , American minister and television host (d. 2007)1933 – Jerzy Grotowski , Polish director and producer (d. 1999) 1933 – Tamás Vásáry , Hungarian pianist and conductor 1934 – Bob Hepple , South African lawyer and academic (d. 2015)1936 – Andre Dubus , American short story writer, essayist, and memoirist (d. 1999)1936 – Bill Monbouquette , American baseball player and coach (d. 2015) 1936 – Jonathan Spence , English-American historian and academic 1937 – Anna Massey , English actress (d. 2011)1937 – Patrick Joseph McGovern , American businessman, founded International Data Group (d. 2014) 1939 – Ronnie Dawson , American singer and guitarist (d. 2003)1940 – Glenys Page , New Zealand cricketer (d. 2012)1941 – John Ellison , American-Canadian musician and songwriter1942 – Mike Hugg , English drummer and keyboard player1943 – Jim Kale , Canadian bass player1943 – Pervez Musharraf , Pakistani general and politician, 10th President of Pakistan 1943 – Denis Payton , English saxophonist (d. 2006) 1944 – Martin Linton , Swedish-English journalist and politician1944 – Frederick W. Smith , American businessman, founded FedEx 1944 – Ian McDiarmid , Scottish actor 1946 – John Conlee , American singer-songwriter1946 – Marilyn vos Savant , American journalist and author 1947 – Theo de Jong , Dutch footballer, coach, and manager1947 – Georgios Karatzaferis , Greek journalist and politician 1948 – Don Boyd , Scottish director, producer, and screenwriter1949 – Eric Carmen , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1949 – Tim Hutchinson , American lawyer and politician 1949 – Ian Charleson , Scottish-English actor and singer (d. 1990) 1950 – Erik Brann , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2003)1950 – Gennadiy Nikonov , Russian engineer, designed the AN-94 rifle (d. 2003) 1950 – Steve Wozniak , American computer scientist and programmer, co-founded Apple Inc. 1952 – Reid Blackburn , American photographer (d. 1980)1952 – Bob Mothersbaugh , American singer, guitarist, and producer 1953 – Hulk Hogan , American wrestler1953 – Wijda Mazereeuw , Dutch swimmer 1954 – Bryan Bassett , American guitarist1954 – Vance Heafner , American golfer and coach (d. 2012) 1954 – Joe Jackson , English singer-songwriter and musician 1954 – Tarmo Rüütli , Estonian footballer, coach, and manager 1954 – Yashpal Sharma , Indian cricketer and umpire 1955 – Marc Bureau , Canadian politician, 16th Mayor of Gatineau 1955 – Sylvia Hermon , Northern Irish academic and politician 1956 – Pierre-Louis Lions , French mathematician and academic1957 – Ian Stuart Donaldson , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1993)1958 – Steven Pokere , New Zealand rugby player1958 – Jah Wobble , English singer-songwriter and bass player 1959 – Gustavo Cerati , Argentinian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2014)1959 – Yoshiaki Murakami , Japanese businessman 1959 – Taraki Sivaram , Sri Lankan journalist and author (d. 2005) 1959 – Richard Scudamore , English businessman 1959 – László Szlávics, Jr. , Hungarian sculptor 1961 – David Brooks , American journalist and author1961 – Craig Ehlo , American basketball player and coach 1962 – Brian Azzarello , American author1962 – Charles Cecil , English video game designer and co-founded Revolution Software 1962 – John Micklethwait , English journalist and author 1962 – Rob Minkoff , American director and producer 1963 – Hiromi Makihara , Japanese baseball player1964 – Jim Lee , South Korean-American author and illustrator1964 – Grant Waite , New Zealand golfer 1965 – Marc Bergevin , Canadian ice hockey player and manager1965 – Embeth Davidtz , American actress 1965 – Viola Davis , American actress 1966 – Nigel Martyn , English footballer and coach1966 – Juan María Solare , Argentinian pianist and composer 1967 – Massimiliano Allegri , Italian footballer and manager1967 – Enrique Bunbury , Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist 1967 – Joe Rogan , American actor, comedian, and television host 1967 – Petter Wettre , Norwegian saxophonist and composer 1968 – Sophie Okonedo , British actress1968 – Charlie Sexton , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1970 – Dirk Hannemann , German footballer and manager1970 – Gianluca Pessotto , Italian footballer 1971 – Alejandra Barros , Mexican actress and screenwriter1971 – Tommy Mooney , English footballer 1973 – Kristin Armstrong , American cyclist1974 – Marie-France Dubreuil , Canadian figure skater1974 – Hadiqa Kiani , Pakistani singer, songwriter and philanthropist 1974 – Audrey Mestre , French biologist and diver (d. 2002) 1974 – Carolyn Murphy , American model and actress 1975 – Chris Cummings , Canadian singer-songwriter1976 – Iván Córdoba , Colombian footballer and manager1976 – Bubba Crosby , American baseball player 1976 – Will Friedle , American actor and screenwriter 1976 – Ben Gibbard , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1976 – Ľubomír Višňovský , Slovak ice hockey player 1977 – Gemma Hayes , Irish singer-songwriter1977 – Dênio Martins , Brazilian footballer 1978 – Spyros Gogolos , Greek footballer1978 – Charlotte Leslie , British politician 1978 – Lillian Nakate , Ugandan politician 1978 – Isy Suttie , English comedian, musician, actress, and writer 1979 – Walter Ayoví , Ecuadorian footballer1980 – Daniel Lloyd , English cyclist and sportscaster1980 – Lee Suggs , American football player 1981 – Daniel Poohl , Swedish journalist1983 – Chris Hemsworth , Australian actor1983 – Luke Lewis , Australian rugby league player 1983 – Pavel 183 , Russian painter (d. 2013) 1984 – Melky Cabrera , Dominican baseball player1984 – Lucas di Grassi , Brazilian race car driver 1985 – Jacqueline Fernandez , Sri Lankan actress1986 – Mokhtar Benmoussa , Algerian footballer1986 – Pablo Sandoval , Venezuelan baseball player 1987 – Dany N'Guessan , French footballer1987 – Drew Storen , American baseball player 1988 – Rabeh Al-Hussaini , Filipino basketball player1988 – Patty Mills , Australian basketball player 1988 – Mustafa Pektemek , Turkish footballer 1989 – Junior Heffernan , Irish cyclist and triathlete (d. 2013)1989 – Sebastian Huke , German footballer 1990 – Lenka Juríková , Slovak tennis player1991 – Cristian Tello , Spanish footballer1994 – Storm Sanders , Australian tennis player1994 – Anton Cooper , New Zealand cross-country cyclist 1994 – Joseph Barbato , French footballer 480 BC – Leonidas I , Agiad King of Sparta223 – Jia Xu , Chinese politician (b. 147)353 – Magnentius , Roman usurper (b. 303)449 – Archbishop Flavian of Constantinople 919 – Dhuka al-Rumi , Abbasid governor of Egypt[3] 979 – Gero, Count of Alsleben 991 – Byrhtnoth , English soldier (b. 956)1044 – Sokkate , king of the Pagan dynasty of Burma (b. 1001)1204 – Guttorm of Norway (b. 1199)1253 – Clare of Assisi , Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (b. 1194)1259 – Möngke Khan , Mongolian emperor (b. 1208)1268 – Agnes of Faucigny , Dame ruler of Faucigny, Countess consort of Savoy1332 – Domhnall II, Earl of Mar 1332 – Robert II Keith, Marischal of Scotland 1332 – Thomas Randolph, 2nd Earl of Moray 1332 – Murdoch III, Earl of Menteith 1332 – Robert Bruce , Lord of Liddesdale 1456 – John Hunyadi , Hungarian general and politician (b. 1387)1464 – Nicholas of Cusa , German cardinal and mystic (b. 1401)1465 – Kettil Karlsson , regent of Sweden and Bishop of Linköping (b. 1433)1486 – William Waynflete , English Lord Chancellor and bishop of Winchester (b. c. 1398)1494 – Hans Memling , German-Belgian painter (b. 1430)1519 – Johann Tetzel , German preacher (b. 1465)1556 – John Bell , English bishop1563 – Bartolomé de Escobedo , Spanish composer and educator (b. 1500)1578 – Pedro Nunes , Portuguese mathematician and academic (b. 1502)1596 – Hamnet Shakespeare , son of William Shakespeare (b. 1585)1614 – Lavinia Fontana , Italian painter (b. 1552)1656 – Ottavio Piccolomini , Austrian-Italian field marshal (b. 1599)1725 – Prince Vittorio Amedeo Theodore of Savoy (b. 1723)1774 – Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche , French physician and author (b. 1722)1813 – Henry James Pye , English poet and politician (b. 1745)1851 – Lorenz Oken , German botanist, biologist, and ornithologist (b. 1779)1854 – Macedonio Melloni , Italian physicist and academic (b. 1798)1868 – Halfdan Kjerulf , Norwegian pianist and composer (b. 1815)1886 – Lydia Koidula , Estonian poet and playwright (b. 1843)1890 – John Henry Newman , English cardinal and theologian (b. 1801)1892 – Enrico Betti , Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1813)1903 – Eugenio María de Hostos , Puerto Rican-American sociologist, philosopher, and lawyer (b. 1839)1908 – Khudiram Bose , Indian Bengali revolutionary (b. 1889)1919 – Andrew Carnegie , Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Carnegie Steel Company and Carnegie Hall (b. 1835)1921 – Mary Sumner , English philanthropist, founded the Mothers' Union (b. 1828)1936 – Blas Infante , Spanish historian and politician (b. 1885)1937 – Edith Wharton , American novelist and short story writer (b. 1862)1939 – Jean Bugatti , German-Italian engineer (b. 1909)1939 – Siegfried Flesch , Austrian fencer (b. 1872) 1945 – Stefan Jaracz , Polish actor and theater producer (b. 1883)1953 – Tazio Nuvolari , Italian race car driver and motorcycle racer (b. 1892)1956 – Jackson Pollock , American painter (b. 1912)1961 – Antanas Škėma , Lithuanian-American author, playwright, actor, and director (b. 1910)1963 – Otto Wahle , Austrian-American swimmer and coach (b. 1879)1965 – Bill Woodfull , Australian cricketer and educator (b. 1897)1969 – Miriam Licette , English soprano and educator (b. 1885)1972 – Max Theiler , South African-American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)1974 – Vicente Emilio Sojo , Venezuelan conductor and composer (b. 1887)1977 – Frederic Calland Williams , British co-inventor of the Williams-Kilborn tube , used for memory in early computer systems (b. 1911)1979 – J. G. Farrell , English author (b. 1935)1980 – Paul Robert , French lexicographer and publisher (b. 1910)1982 – Tom Drake , American actor and singer (b. 1918)1984 – Alfred A. Knopf Sr. , American publisher, founded Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (b. 1892)1984 – Paul Felix Schmidt , Estonian–American chemist and chess player (b. 1916) 1986 – János Drapál , Hungarian motorcycle racer (b. 1948)1988 – Anne Ramsey , American actress (b. 1929)1989 – John Meillon , Australian actor (b. 1934)1991 – J. D. McDuffie , American race car driver (b. 1938)1994 – Peter Cushing , English actor (b. 1913)1995 – Phil Harris , American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1904)1996 – Rafael Kubelík , Czech conductor and composer (b. 1914)1996 – Ambrosio Padilla , Filipino basketball player and politician (b. 1910) 2000 – Jean Papineau-Couture , Canadian composer and academic (b. 1916)2001 – Percy Stallard , English cyclist and coach (b. 1909)2002 – Galen Rowell , American photographer and mountaineer (b. 1940)2003 – Armand Borel , Swiss-American mathematician and academic (b. 1923)2003 – Herb Brooks , American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1937) 2006 – Mike Douglas , American singer and talk show host (b. 1920)2008 – George Furth , American actor and playwright (b. 1932)2008 – Dursun Karataş , founding leader of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party–Front (DHKP-C) in Turkey (b. 1952) 2009 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver , American activist, founded the Special Olympics (b. 1921)2012 – Red Bastien , American wrestler, trainer, and promoter (b. 1931)2012 – Michael Dokes , American boxer (b. 1958) 2012 – Lucy Gallardo , Argentinian-Mexican actress and screenwriter (b. 1929) 2013 – Raymond Delisle , French cyclist (b. 1943)2013 – Zafar Futehally , Indian ornithologist and author (b. 1919) 2013 – David Howard , English ballet dancer and educator (b. 1937) 2014 – Vladimir Beara , Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1928)2014 – Raymond Gravel , Canadian priest and politician (b. 1952) 2014 – Kika Szaszkiewiczowa , Polish author and blogger (b. 1917) 2014 – Robin Williams , American actor and comedian (b. 1951) 2015 – Serge Collot , French viola player and educator (b. 1923)2015 – Harald Nielsen , Danish footballer and manager (b. 1941) 2015 – Richard Oriani , Salvadoran-American metallurgist and engineer (b. 1920) 2017 – Yisrael Kristal , Polish-Israeli supercentenarian; oldest living Holocaust survivor and one of the ten oldest men ever (b. 1903)2017 – Segun Bucknor , Nigerian musician and journalist (b. 1946) 2018 – V S Naipaul , British writer (b. 1932) [4] 2019 – Sergio Obeso Rivera , Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1931)[5] Holidays and observances [ edit ] References [ edit ] ^ Ertel, Ivan D.; Newkirk, Roland W.; Brooks, Courtney G. (1978). "The Apollo Spacecraft - A Chronology. Vol. IV. Part 3 (1969 3rd quarter)" . NASA History Program Office . NASA. p. 312. Retrieved October 24, 2017 . ^ "A Death On Descent" . www.cbsnews.com . Retrieved 2019-08-06 .^ Halm, Heinz (1991). Das Reich des Mahdi: Der Aufstieg der Fatimiden [The Empire of the Mahdi: The Rise of the Fatimids ] (in German). Munich: C. H. Beck. p. 189. ISBN 3-406-35497-1 ^ "Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul dies at 85" . 2018-08-12.^ "Falleció el Arzobispo Emérito, Sergio Obeso Rivera" [Archbishop Emeritus, Sergio Obeso Rivera passes away], El Diario de Morelos (in Spanish), Cuernavaca, August 11, 2019, retrieved August 11, 2019 External links [ edit ] Wikimedia Commons has media related to August 11
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