Notable Historical Events on December 11th
December 11th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
359 |
Honoratus, first known Prefect of the City of Constantinople, takes office. |
384 |
St Damasus I dies and ends his reign as Catholic Pope. Began reign 366 |
1282 |
Llywelyn ab Gruffydd/Llywelyn the Last (b. c.1228), the last native Prince of Wales, is killed at Cilmeri, near Builth Wells, south Wales. Reigned from 1259 |
1419 |
Heretic Nicolaas Serrurier exiled from Florence |
1477 |
Duchess Maria of Burgundy ends the 'Great Privilege' |
1572 |
Spanish troops begin siege of Haarlem |
1602 |
A surprise attack by forces under the command of the Duke of Savoy and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain, is repelled by the citizens of Geneva. Commemorations/celebrations on Fête de l'Escalade are usually held on December 11 or the closest weekend. |
1618 |
Russia & Poland signs Peace treaty of Dailino |
1620 |
103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (12/21 NS) |
1620 |
Myles Standish and a group of 18 settlers are attacked by 30 Native Americans, which became known as the "First Encounter" |
1665 |
"Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi festival in Smyrna |
1688 |
King James II captured in Kent. |
1710 |
Battle of Villa Viciosa (France beat Habsburgers) |
1719 |
1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in north American colonies (New England) |
1730 |
Voltaire's "Brutus" premieres in Paris |
1792 |
France's King Louis XVI goes on trial, accused of high treason and crimes against the state |
1812 |
1st newspaper on Curacao (Curacao Gazette & Commercial Advertiser) |
1816 |
Citizens of Geneva thwarted Savoyard invaders |
1816 |
Indiana becomes 19th state of the Union |
1844 |
1st dental use of nitrous oxide, Hartford, Ct |
1866 |
1st yacht race across Atlantic Ocean |
1872 |
1st black US govenor took office, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (La) |
1882 |
Boston's Bijou Theatre, 1st American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, 1st performance, Gilbert & Sullivan's "Iolanthe" |
1882 |
Victorien Sardous "Fedora" with Sarah Bernhardt, premieres in Paris |
1888 |
French Panama Canal Company fails |
1893 |
11 fishing ships wash up at Wadden Sea, 22 killed |
1901 |
Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian electrical inventor, sends the first transatlantic radio signal |
1902 |
The US signs a treaty with Cuba allowing for a 20 percent reduction of tariff rates on imported Cuban products |
1903 |
British forces under MacDonald & Young march into Tibet |
1905 |
120°F (49°C), Rivadavia, Argentina (South American record) |
1905 |
British government of Campbell-Bannerman forms |
1905 |
A workers uprising occurs, establishing the Shuliavka Republic in Kiev. |
1906 |
US president Roosevelt attacks abuses in the Congo |
1907 |
New Zealand Parliament Buildings almost completely destroyed by fire. |
1908 |
Frederick Delius' "In a Summer Garden" premieres |
1909 |
Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, NYC |
1909 |
Canadian Football exhibition game played in Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, Hamilton Tigers beat Ottawa Rough Riders, 11-6 before 15,000 |
1913 |
"Mona Lisa," stolen from the Louvre Museum in 1911, recovered |
1914 |
Stockton Street Tunnel (SF) completed |
1916 |
David Lloyd George forms British war government |
1917 |
13 black soldiers hanged for participation in Houston riot |
1917 |
German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia |
1919 |
Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise, Ala |
1925 |
Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quas Primas |
1926 |
Josephine Baker goes up in Amsterdam |
1926 |
Queensland win their 1st Sheffield Shield cricket match, v NSW |
1928 |
Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on Pres-elect Herbert Hoover |
1928 |
NL Pres John Heydler proposes designated hitter for pitchers |
1930 |
Bank of the United States closes in New York City |
1931 |
Japan leaves the Gold Standard |
1931 |
Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, NZ, South Africa, Ireland, Newfndlnd |
1932 |
SF's coldest day (27°F) - it snows |
1934 |
1935 All-Star Game is assigned to Cleveland |
1934 |
1st Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher unsuccessful vs Rangers |
1934 |
Ford C Frick becomes president of baseball's National League |
1934 |
NL votes to permit night baseball (up to 7 games per home team) |
1936 |
Edward VIII announces in a radio broadcast that he is abdicating the British throne to marry Wallis Simpson |
1937 |
25th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 30-7 |
1937 |
Italy withdraws from League of Nations |
1938 |
NY Giants win NFL championship |
1939 |
New anti Jewish measurements in Poland, proclaimed |
1940 |
Russian general Zhukov warns of German assault |
1941 |
Dutch government in London declares war on Italy |
1941 |
Germany & Italy declare war on US |
1941 |
Giants acquire Johnny Mize from Cards for 3 players & $50,000 |
1941 |
Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WW II-landing) |
1941 |
Japanese occupy Guam |
1942 |
Australian/Dutch guerrilla troops evacuated to Timor near Australia |
1944 |
Surprise attack on House of Keeping Axe, 29 prisoners freed |
1945 |
Het Parool publishes 1st Captain Rob-strip |
1946 |
Hank Williams begins to record on Sterling label |
1946 |
Spain suspended from UN |
1946 |
UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965) |
1947 |
Bob Hilliard/Carl Sigman's musical "Angel in the Wings" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 308 performances |
1947 |
Pacific Coast League application for major league status rejected |
1948 |
WHEN (now WTVH) TV channel 5 in Syracuse, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1948 |
WMC TV channel 5 in Memphis, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1949 |
Chic Bear Johnny Lujack passes for 6 touchdowns vs Chic Cards (52-29) |
1949 |
Cleveland Browns beat SF '49ers 21-7 in final AAFC championship game |
1949 |
WOAI (now KMOL) TV channel 4 in San Antonio, TX (NBC) 1st broadcast |
1950 |
Baseball owners vote 9-7 not to renew Commissioner Chandler's contract |
1950 |
Hindemiths Concerto for clarinet, premieres |
1951 |
Joe DiMaggio announces his baseball retirement |
1953 |
KTVA TV channel 11 in Anchorage (CBS) becomes Alaska's 1st TV station |
1954 |
Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium |
1954 |
USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va |
1956 |
Anti-Russian demonstrates in Stettin & Wroclaw Poland |
1958 |
4th (last) Dutch government of Drees falls |
1958 |
Archibald MacLeish's "JB" premieres in NYC |
1958 |
Upper Volta (now Bourkina Faso) gains autonomy from France |
1959 |
Yanks trade Marv Thronberry, Don Larsen, Hank Bauer & Norm Seibern for Roger Maris, Kent Hadley & Joe Deaestri |
1959 |
Emilio G. Segrè publishes his discovery of the antiproton, a sub-atomic antiparticle for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959 |
1960 |
Black Sunday - Riot in Algiers, 114 die |
1960 |
Coleman/Leigh's musical "Wildcat" with Lucille Ball premieres in NYC |
1960 |
Cleveland's Bernie Parrish sets club record for longest interception return with a 92 yard run |
1961 |
"Please, Mr. Postman" by Marvelettes, released |
1961 |
Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel |
1961 |
Elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 20 wks |
1961 |
JFK provides US miltary helicopters & crews to South Vietnam |
1964 |
Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. An unknown terrorist fires a mortar shell at the building during the speech. |
1965 |
"Anya" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 16 performances |
1965 |
"Yearling" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 3 performances |
1966 |
Al Nelson sets NFL record returning missed field goal, 100 yards |
1967 |
6.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed |
1967 |
Beatles' Apple Music signs its 1st group-Grapefruit |
1967 |
People's front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) established |
1967 |
SST prototype "Concorde" 1st shown (France) |
1968 |
KECC (now KECY) TV channel 9 in El Centro, CA (CBS) 1st broadcast |
1968 |
US Soccer Football Association refuses to let NASL disband |
1968 |
Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill sacks Home Affairs Minister, William Craig |
1969 |
Libya adopts constitution |
1970 |
Start of the 1st Test match at the WACA, v England |
1970 |
Test Cricket debut of Gregory Stephen Chappell |
1971 |
The Libertarian Party of the United States is formed. |
1971 |
A bomb explodes outside a furniture showroom on the mainly-Protestant and loyalist Shankill Road, Belfast; four civilians (including two babies) were killed and nineteen wounded |
1972 |
Astronauts Cernan & Harrison become 11th & 12th on Moon |
1972 |
Jet's Don Maynard becomes all time pro reception leader (632) |
1973 |
Houston Astro Caesar Cedino jailed in death of 19 year old woman |
1973 |
NA Soccer League awards LA, SF, Seattle & Vancouver franchises |
1973 |
Ron Santo becomes 1st to invoke no-trade clause of 10-year-1-club vet |
1973 |
West German chancellor Willy Brandt normalizes trade with Czech |
1975 |
1st class postage rises from 10 cents to 13 cents |
1975 |
Great Yankee trade getting Willie Randolph, Dock Ellis & Ken Brett from Pirates for George "Doc" Medich |
1977 |
Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams, leaders of the group 'Peace People' (an organisation dedicated to encouraging a peaceful resolution of 'the Troubles' in Northern Ireland) receive the Nobel Peace Prize |
1978 |
6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at NY Kennedy Airport & made off with $5.8 M in cash & jewelry |
1979 |
Geoff Boycott scores cricket century in a limited-over international |
1979 |
Great Britain grants independence to Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) |
1980 |
Dirk Wellham scores 100 on 1st-class debut, NSW v Victoria |
1980 |
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (known as either CERCLA or Superfund) is enacted by the U.S. Congress. |
1981 |
Argentine president/gen Roberto Viola flees |
1981 |
Muhammad Ali's 61st & last fight, losing to Trevor Berbick |
1981 |
Peru's Javier Perez de Cuellar becomes sec-gen of UN |
1981 |
Spacelab I arrives at Kennedy Space Center |
1981 |
UN Sec Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as 5th Sec Genl |
1981 |
Wash Capitals biggest margin of victory (9) beating Toronto 11-2 |
1981 |
El Mozote massacre: Salvadoran armed forces kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the country's civil war. |
1983 |
1st visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome) |
1983 |
72nd Australian Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (61 64 64) |
1983 |
Jan Stephens/Fred Couples wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
1984 |
"Doug Henning & His World..." opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 60 perf |
1984 |
Mauretania military coup under Col Maawiya Ould Sid'ahmed Taya |
1985 |
Computer store owner in Sacramento California killed by package bomb |
1985 |
Dow Jones closes above 1,500 for 1st time (1,511.70) |
1985 |
General Electric acquires RCA Corp & its subsidiary, NBC |
1985 |
NHL Record 62 points scored, Edmonton (36) beats Chicago (26) 12-9 & ties record of 21 goals |
1986 |
A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's National League |
1986 |
South Africa censors press |
1987 |
Test debut of Carl Hooper, WI v India at Bombay |
1989 |
"City of Angels" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 878 performances |
1989 |
Mark Davis signs record $3.25 million per year KC Royals contract |
1990 |
13 die in 83 vehicle accident in Chattanooga Tn I-75, due to fog |
1990 |
US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) returns from space |
1991 |
William Kennedy Smith found not guilty of rape |
1992 |
Nor'easter storm hits NY, doing $ Billion worth of damage |
1992 |
WNEW AM radio on 1130 in NYC ends transmitting after 58 years |
1993 |
59th Heisman Trophy Award: Charlie Ward, Florida State (QB) |
1993 |
Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile |
1994 |
Kelly Robbins & Tammie Green wins LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches |
1994 |
Russian troops enter Chechnya |
1995 |
Thomas O Hicks buys NHL Dallas Stars for $84 million |
1997 |
"Sunshine Boys" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC |
1997 |
Federal judge orders Microsoft not to bundle IE4 in Windows |
1997 |
Delegates from 150 industrial nations attending a United Nations climate conference in Kyoto, Japan, reach agreement on a protocol to control heat-trapping greenhouse gases; the protocol commita nations to roll back greenhouse gase emissions below 1990 levels |
1998 |
Thai Airways Airbus A310-200 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101 |
2001 |
The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization. |
2003 |
Joe Sakic scores his 500th career goal at Vancouver |
2005 |
The Buncefield Oil Depot in Hemel Hempstead, England, is rocked by explosions, causing a huge oil fire. |
2005 |
Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese (and many who were not) in Cronulla Sydney. These are followed up by ethnic attacks on Cronulla. |
2006 |
The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. |
2007 |
Two car bombs go off at the Constitutional Court building in Algiers and the United Nations office. An estimated 45 people are killed in the bombings. |
2008 |
Bernard Madoff arrested and charged with securities fraud in $50 billion Ponzi scheme |
2009 |
Tiger Woods announced an indefinite leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage. |
2010 |
Two explosions occur in a busy shopping district of Stockholm, Sweden, killing one and injuring two others. Officials say the incident is being treated as a terrorist attack. |
2012 |
125 people are killed and 200 are injured by bombings in Aqrab, Syria |
2012 |
HSBC bank settles with US authorities to pay $1.9 billion for drug cartel money laundering |
2012 |
British physicist, Stephen Hawking, wins the $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize, the most lucrative academic prize in the world |
2013 |
Pope Francis is named Time magazine's person of the year |
2013 |
20 people are killed by the bubonic plague in a small Madagascan village |
2015 |
4 dead in California medical helicopter crash |
2015 |
US-led coalition says it killed ISIS finance minister in Iraq |
2015 |
Honduras national soccer player Arnold Peralta shot dead at shopping mall |
2016 |
Seattle Sounders Win MLS Cup Over Toronto FC on Penalty Kicks |
2016 |
At Least 60 Killed as Crowded Church Collapses in Nigeria |
2016 |
Louisville QB Lamar Jackson wins Heisman Trophy |
2016 |
Anthony Joshua KOs Eric Molina in third round to retain IBF heavyweight title |
2016 |
Army beats Navy 21-17 to end 14-year losing streak in series |
2016 |
Two Scottish-born scientists awarded Nobel Prize in Physics |
2017 |
Bitcoin futures surge past $17000 on launch day |
2017 |
Bitcoin futures make firm debut, dollar holds gains ahead of Fed |
2017 |
Massive California wildfire now the fifth-largest in state's history |
2017 |
Middle East protests erupt after Trump recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's capital |
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