Notable Historical Events on August 11th
August 11th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
3114 |
The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Mayans, begins. |
2492 |
Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation. |
480 |
Greco-Persian Wars: Battle of Artemisium - Persian naval victory over the Greeks in an engagement fought near promontory on the north coast of Euboea. Greek fleet holds its own against the Persians in three days of fighting but withdraws upon news of the defeat at Thermopylae. |
BC AD | |
355 |
Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius II. |
1304 |
Sea battle of Zierikzee |
1492 |
Rodrigo de Borja becomes Pope Alexander VI |
1522 |
Uprising of adel/burgerij in Austria fails |
1597 |
Germany throws out English sales people |
1611 |
Emperor Rudolf forces out king of Bohemia |
1674 |
1st Battle of at Seneffe (Louis II Condé vs Willem III) |
1695 |
English & Dutch fleet capture Dunkerk |
1718 |
Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish |
1772 |
Explosive eruption blows 4,000' off Papandayan Java, kills 3,000 |
1780 |
Barbados hurricane begins |
1786 |
Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia |
1804 |
Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria |
1835 |
George B Airy begins 46-year reign as England's Astronomer Royal |
1858 |
First ascent of the Eiger in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland |
1860 |
US's 1st successful silver mill (Virginia City, Nev) |
1863 |
Cambodia becomes French protectorate |
1866 |
World's 1st roller rink opens (Newport RI) |
1874 |
Harry S Parmelee patents sprinkler head |
1877 |
Asaph Hall discovers Mars's moon Deimos |
1884 |
1st double-century stand in Test cricket, McDonnell/Murdoch 207 Aust |
1885 |
$100,000 raised in US for pedestal for Statue of Liberty |
1888 |
California Theatre closed (now a Pac Tel Phone Store) |
1896 |
Harvey Hubbell patents electric light bulb socket with a pull chain |
1904 |
German-ltalian General Von Trotha defeats Herero in SW Africa |
1904 |
The Russian fleet in the harbor of at Port Arthur are exposed to Russian guns on the hill above the harbor; Russian trips attempt escape, but most are forced back into harbor by Japanese ships |
1907 |
St Louis Card Ed Karger pitches perfect game vs Braves, 4-0 in 7 inn |
1908 |
King Edward VII of Britain meets with Kaiser Wilhelm of Friedrichshof, Germany; the main point of contention is the increasing size of Germany's navy |
1909 |
SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC |
1909 |
Warren Bardsley (136 & 130) 1st to get twin tons in a Test |
1914 |
France declares war on Austria-Hungary |
1914 |
Jews are expelled from Mitchenick Poland |
1914 |
John Wray patents animation |
1914 |
Mitchenick Poland, expels Jews |
1919 |
Green Bay Packers football club founded by George Calhoun and Curly Lambeau - named after sponser Indian Packing Company |
1919 |
Weimar Republic begins in Germany |
1920 |
1st peace of Riga-Soviet Union recognizes Independence of Latvia |
1923 |
Dutch Premier de Geer resigns |
1924 |
1st newsreel pictures of US presidential candidates were taken |
1926 |
Cleve Indian Tris Speaker hits his 700th double |
1928 |
Carl Hubbell's 1st major league victory is a 4-0 shutout of Phils |
1928 |
Georges Ronsse becomes world champion cyclists |
1929 |
Babe Ruth becomes 1st to hit 500 homers (off Willis Hudlin of Cleve) |
1929 |
Persia & Iraq sign friendship treaty |
1929 |
Russian-Chinese border fights |
1933 |
Temp reaches 136°F (57.8°C) at San Luis Potosi, Mex (world record) |
1934 |
1st federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in SF Bay |
1935 |
Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews |
1936 |
Chaing Kai-shek's troops conquers Kanton |
1939 |
Sergei Rachmaninovs last appearance in Europe |
1940 |
38 German aircrafts shot down above England |
1940 |
German air raid on British harbors Portland/Weymouth |
1942 |
- Sept 30] SS begins exterminating 3,500 Jews in Zelov Lodz Poland |
1942 |
999 Jews are taken from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium |
1942 |
British aircraft carrier Eagle torpedoed & sinks |
1942 |
Lt-gen Montgomery makes landing on Gibraltar |
1943 |
Red Army recaptures Tchukujev, at Kharkov |
1943 |
Richard Strauss' 2nd Horn Concert, premieres |
1943 |
US amphibians land at Brolo on north coast of Sicily |
1944 |
British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy |
1944 |
French 5th Armour division recaptures Sées |
1944 |
Klaus Barbie, Gestapo head of Lyon France leaves for Auschwitz |
1944 |
US air raid on Palembang |
1945 |
Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito |
1948 |
Summer Olympics opens in London |
1949 |
1st Naples-Capri swim, 17 miles (27 km) (Giovanni Gambi) |
1949 |
Gaston Eyskens forms Belgiangovernment |
1950 |
17th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 17, Philadelphia 7 (88,885) |
1950 |
Boston Brave Vern Bickford no-hits Bkln Dodger, 7-0 |
1950 |
Hitting just .279, Yank great Joe DiMaggio is benched for 1st time |
1950 |
King Boudouin I takes oath as royal prince of Belgium |
1951 |
100,000 acres flooded from Mississippi River in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Illinois |
1951 |
1st color baseball game (Braves vs Dodgers) telecast (WCBS-NYC) |
1951 |
NY Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 38-6 in Ottawa |
1951 |
NY Giants lose to go 13½ games behind Bkln Dodgers, later win pennant |
1952 |
Hussein Ibn Talal I, proclaimed King of Jordan |
1954 |
BC Lions plays its 1st CF game, they lose to Montreal Alouettes, 22-0 |
1954 |
Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ yrs of fighting in Indochina between French & Communist Vietminh |
1955 |
Indonesia government of Harahap forms |
1956 |
1st flight 4-motor Cessna 620 |
1956 |
Elvis Presley releases "Don't Be Cruel" |
1957 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Golf Open |
1957 |
Paul Hindemith' opera "Harmonie der Welt," premieres in Munich |
1960 |
Chad declares Independence from France |
1961 |
Warren Spahn records victory #300, beats Cubs 2-1 |
1962 |
Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3 |
1962 |
Beach Boys release "Surfin' Safari" |
1962 |
Bolotnikov runs world record 10km (28:18.2) |
1962 |
Dodgers protest wetting down of Candlestick to slow Maury Wills down |
1963 |
Kingston Trio are mystery guest on "What's My Line?" |
1963 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational |
1963 |
Four ANC political detainees escape from Pretoria Central prison in South Africa |
1964 |
Beatles' "A Hard Days Night" opens in NYC |
1964 |
Race riot in Paterson NJ |
1965 |
6 day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles |
1965 |
Beatles movie "Help" opens in NYC |
1965 |
Watts riots begin in Southeast LA, lasts 6 days |
1966 |
Last Beatle concert tour of US begins |
1967 |
Al Downing becomes 12th to strike-out side on 9 pitches |
1968 |
Beatles launch "Apple Records" label |
1968 |
Satchel Paige, 62, & needing 158 days on a major league payroll to qualify for a pension, is signed by Braves |
1968 |
The last steam passenger train service runs in Britain. A selection of British Rail steam locomotives make the 120-mile journey from Liverpool to Carlisle and returns to Liverpool before having their fires dropped for the last time - this working was known as the Fifteen Guinea Special. |
1969 |
Don Drysdale retires because of damage to his right shoulder |
1969 |
Pittsburgh Steelers beat NY Giants 17-13 in Montreal (NFL expo) |
1970 |
Jim Bunning becomes 2nd (Cy Young) to win 100 games in both leagues |
1970 |
Tony Perez becomes 1st to hit a HR in red seats at Riverfront |
1970 |
Two Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officers are killed by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) when they set off a booby trap bomb planted in a car near Crossmaglen, County Armagh |
1971 |
Construction begins on Louisiana Superdome |
1971 |
Harmon Killebrew hits HRs #500 & 501 |
1971 |
4 people are shot dead in separate incidents in Belfast; three of them by the British Army, as violence continues following the introduction of Internment and Operation Demetrius |
1972 |
"Cheech & Chong Day" in San Antonio Texas |
1972 |
Two IRA members are killed when a bomb they were transporting exploded prematurely |
1974 |
56th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 276 at Tanglewood NC |
1974 |
Coup in East-Timor under UDT |
1974 |
Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey) |
1975 |
Expos' Jose Mangual struck out 5 times in a game |
1975 |
US vetoes proposed admission of North & South Vietnam to UN |
1976 |
Keith Moon, drummer for Who, collapses & is hospitalized in Miami |
1976 |
Race riot in Cape Town, South Africa; 17 die |
1977 |
Geoff Boycott scores his 100th FC hundred, v Aust at Headingley |
1978 |
Funeral of Pope Paul VI |
1978 |
Legionnaire's disease bacteria isolated in Atlanta |
1979 |
28°F in Embarrass Minnesota |
1979 |
Phillies Tug McGraw gives up record 4th grand slam of year |
1980 |
Angola revises its constitution |
1980 |
Mohammed Ali Radjai appointed premier of Iran |
1980 |
Yanks Reggie Jackson hits his 400th HR off Chicago's Britt Burns |
1982 |
Twins Terry Felton loses & runs career to 0-14 (en route to 0-16) |
1982 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1982 |
The South African Defence Force (SADF) raids Southern Angola |
1984 |
101,799 fans at soccer match Brazil vs France |
1984 |
Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat, wins 4 Olympic track golds |
1984 |
Cincinnati Reds retire Johnny Bench's #5 uniform |
1984 |
During radio voice test US President Reagan jokes he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes" |
1984 |
Men's choir Maranatha Netherlands forms |
1984 |
USSR performs (underground) nuclear test |
1985 |
"Tap Dance Kid" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 669 perfs |
1985 |
67th PGA Championship: Hubert Green shoots 278 at Cherry Hills Denver |
1985 |
Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz |
1985 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic |
1985 |
Rudolf Povarnitsin of USSR sets new high jump world record (7'10"12) |
1986 |
68th PGA Championship: Bob Tway shoots a 276 at Inverness Club Toledo |
1987 |
France & Great-Britain send minesweepers to Persian Gulf |
1988 |
225 at bats after #299, Met Gary Carter is 59th to hit 300th HR |
1988 |
Charlotte Colisieum in Charlotte NC opens |
1988 |
Meir Kahane renounced US citizenship to stay in Israeli Parliament |
1988 |
Al-Qaeda formed |
1989 |
"Nightmare on Elm Street 5: Dream Child" premieres |
1989 |
Geoff Marsh & Mark Taylor complete 329 opening stand v England |
1989 |
Voyager 2 discovers 2 partial rings of Neptune |
1990 |
Egypt & Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion |
1990 |
NY Yankee Kevin Maas is fastest to get 13 HRs (110 at bats) |
1991 |
400,000 demonstrate for democracy in Madagascar, 31 killed |
1991 |
73rd PGA Championship: John Daly shoots a 276 at Crooked Stick Ind |
1991 |
Melissa Mcnamara wins Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic |
1991 |
Shite Moslems release US hostage Edward Tracy |
1991 |
Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) lands |
1991 |
Wilson Alvarez hurls a no-hitter in his 1st big league start |
1992 |
Oakland A's rip Jose Canseco for leaving stadium before end of game |
1993 |
NY Islander Brian Mullen, 31, suffers a mild stroke |
1993 |
Pope John Paul II visits Mexico |
1993 |
Red Sox Roger Clemens pitches 2,000th strike out (Danny Tartabul-NY) |
1994 |
Joao B "Nino" Vieira elected pres of Guinee-Bissau |
1996 |
"Thousand Clowns," closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 32 performs |
1996 |
78th PGA Championship: Mark Brooks shoots a 277 at Vallhalla GC KY |
1996 |
Emilee Klein wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship |
1997 |
Benin legalizes Jan 10th as a voodoo holiday |
1998 |
Palestine Liberation Organisation and Palestinian National Authority president, Yasser Arafat, arrives in Cape Town on his first state visit to South Africa at the invitation of President Nelson Mandela |
1999 |
Total solar eclipse in India-North -France (2m23s) |
1999 |
The Salt Lake City Tornado tears through the downtown district of the city, killing one. |
2003 |
Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand. |
2003 |
A heat wave in Paris results in temperatures rising to 112°F (44° C), leaving about 144 people dead. |
2003 |
NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history. |
2012 |
153 people are killed and 1300 injured in Tabriz and Ahar, Iran after two earthquakes of up to 6.4 magnitude |
2012 |
13 people are killed and 15 injured by a lightning strike at a Mosque in Bangladesh |
2013 |
22 people are killed by flash floods in Kabul, Pakistan |
2013 |
2 people are killed and 30 are injured after a coach crash in southern France |
2013 |
95th PGA Championship: Jason Dufner shoots a 270 at Oak Hill Country Club |
2016 |
Russia Announces Daily Cease-Fires to Allow Aid into Aleppo |
2016 |
Oil prices fall on US crude inventory build, record Saudi output |
2016 |
New York police arrest man trying to climb Trump Tower |
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