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What Happened on August 11th This Day in History

Year	Name
3114	The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Maya, begins.
2492	Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation.
2017	At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger trains collide in Alexandria, Egypt.
2012	At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.
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.
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.
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.
1992	The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota opens. At the time the largest shopping mall in the United States.
1988	A meeting between Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif, Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, and leaders of Egyptian Islamic Jihad in Afghanistan culminates in the formation of Al-Qaeda.
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.
1982	A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others.
1979	Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners.
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.
1972	Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
1969	The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the moon.
1965	Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
1962	Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
1961	The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
1960	Chad declares independence from France.
1959	Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens.
1952	Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.
1945	Poles in Kraków engage in a pogrom against Jews in the city, killing one and wounding five.
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, two-way radio communications, and Wi-Fi.
1934	The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
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.
1920	The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.
1919	Germany's Weimar Constitution is signed into law.
1918	World War I: The Battle of Amiens ends.
1898	Spanish–American War: American troops enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
1871	An explosion of guncotton occurs in Stowmarket, England, killing 28.[4]
1858	The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.
1813	In Colombia, Juan del Corral declares the independence of Antioquia.
1812	Peninsular War: French troops engage British-Portuguese forces in the Battle of Majadahonda.
1804	Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria.
1786	Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
1675	Franco-Dutch War: Forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle of Konzer Brücke.
1492	Rodrigo de Borja is elected as Head of the Catholic Church, taking the name Pope Alexander VI.
1473	The Battle of Otlukbeli: Mehmed the Conqueror of the Ottoman Empire decisively defeats Uzun Hassan of Aq Qoyunlu.
1332	Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Dupplin Moor: Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol.
1315	The Great Famine of Europe becomes so dire that even the king of England has difficulties buying bread for himself and his entourage.
923	The Qarmatians of Bahrayn capture and pillage the city of Basra.
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.
355	Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius II.
106	The south-western part of Dacia (modern Romania) becomes a Roman province: Roman Dacia.

Famous People Born on August 11

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Year	Name
1877	Adolph M. Christianson, American lawyer and judge (d. 1954)
1898	Peter Mohr Dam, Faroese educator and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 1968)
1941	John Ellison, American-Canadian musician and songwriter
1954	Yashpal Sharma, Indian cricketer and umpire (d. 2021)
1967	Massimiliano Allegri, Italian footballer and manager
1673	Richard Mead, English physician and astrologer (d. 1754)
1943	Jim Kale, Canadian bass player
1902	Lloyd Nolan, American actor (d. 1985)
1988	Rabeh Al-Hussaini, Filipino basketball player
1919	Luis Olmo, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and manager (d. 2017)

Famous People Deaths On August 11

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Date	Name
2008	George Furth, American actor and playwright (b. 1932)
1995	Phil Harris, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1904)
1979	J. G. Farrell, English author (b. 1935)
632	Rusticula, abbess of Arles
2009	Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist, founded the Special Olympics (b. 1921)
1578	Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician and academic (b. 1502)
2017	Yisrael Kristal, Polish-Israeli supercentenarian; oldest living Holocaust survivor and one of the ten oldest men ever (b. 1903)
2002	Galen Rowell, American photographer and mountaineer (b. 1940)
1936	Blas Infante, Spanish historian and politician (b. 1885)
1956	Jackson Pollock, American painter (b. 1912)