August 11

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on August 11. From 1900 until now. August 11 is under the sign of Leo. Famous birthdays on this day include Chris Hemsworth (1983), Hulk Hogan (1953) and Inès de la Fressange (1957). Several movies were released around August 11 over the years, such as The Little Foxes in 1941 directed by William Wyler and The Big Sleep in 1946 directed by Howard Hawks.
But much more happened on August 11 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Brazil - Student�s Day, Lawyer�s Day, Foundation of the Law Studies in Brazil
Zimbabwe - Heroes Day
Taiwan - Valentine's Day
Roman Catholicism - the feasts of at least 5 saints: St. Tiburtius
St. Chromatius
St. Equitius
St. Gery/Gaugericus
St. Susanna
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Events

2018 War in Afghanistan, Ghazni offensive: Fighting continues around the city of Ghazni. (Reuters)
2017 Syrian Civil War: ISIL forces raid an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps base in vast desert spaces of eastern Homs Governorate, Syria, manned by between 12 to 18 fighters, all but one of which are killed. (Almasdar News)
2016 August 2016 Thailand bombings: Two bombs hidden in plant pots explode killing at least one person and injuring 10 others, including foreign tourists, in Hua Hin District, Thailand. (BBC)
2015 Boko Haram insurgency: A bomb attack consistent with Boko Haram kills 50 people in Nigeria's Borno State. (Reuters)
2014 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict: A 72-hour ceasefire between Israel and Hamas begins, and talks aimed at finding a long-term solution to the conflict commence in Cairo. (Haaretz) (BBC)
2013 War in Afghanistan (2001–present):: Three U.S. soldiers are killed in an attack in Afghanistan's eastern Paktia province. (Al Jazeera)
2012 Syrian civil war:
2011 Karen Drambjan, a left-wing Estonian lawyer, storms the Defense Ministry in Tallinn and takes two hostages, but is killed when special police forces storm the building. (RT)
2010 Dan Rostenkowski, Illinois Democratic Representative (1958-94), dies at age 82.
2009 Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the sister of President John F Kennedy and founder of the Special Olympics, dies at age 88 in Massachusetts, USA.
2008 An air strike by the United States kills 25 Taliban militants and 8 civilians in Orūzgān Province in southern Afghanistan. (''The Australian'')
2007 A likely meteor shower is reported over Sonora, California.
2006 Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border in Ukraine, killing 171 people, including 45 children.
2005 Tens of thousands of Israelis have converged on Tel Aviv to protest the proposed removal of Israeli settlements from the Gaza Strip. (Ynet) (BBC)
2004 The Olympic flame arrives in Greece after a relay through 26 countries. (News24)
2003 NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
2002 UNEP (UN Environment Programme) reports on the Asian brown cloud.
1999 An F-2 tornado rips through downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, killing one person and injuring over 100.
1997 Benin legalizes Jan 10th as a voodoo holiday
1996 Thousand Clowns, closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 32 performs
1995 The Russell Hill subway accident results in 3 deaths and 30 injuries in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
1994 Joao B Nino Vieira elected President of Guinee-Bissau
1993 Director Oliver Stone files for divorce from Elizabeth
1992 Oakland Athletics rip Jose Canseco for leaving stadium before end of game
1991 400,000 demonstrate for democracy in Madagascar, 31 killed
1990 Egypt and Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion.
1989 Nightmare on Elm Street 5: Dream Child premieres
1988 225 at bats after #299, Met Gary Carter is 59th to hit 300th HR
1987 France and Great-Britain send minesweepers to Persian Gulf
1986 68th PGA Championship: Bob Tway shoots a 276 at Inverness Club Toledo
1985 Tap Dance Kid closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 669 performances
1984 During a radio voice test President Reagan joked he signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes
1982 Twins Terry Felton loses and runs career to 0-14 (en route to 0-16)
1980 Angola revises its constitution
1979 Phillies Tug McGraw gives up record 4th grand slam of year
1978 Funeral of Pope Paul VI
1977 Geoff Boycott scores his 100th FC hundred, vs. Aust at Headingley
1976 Keith Moon, drummer for Who, collapses and is hospitalized in Miami
1975 US vetoes proposed admission of North and South Vietnam to United Nations.
1974 56th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 276 at Tanglewood, North Carolina
1972 Vietnam War: the last United States ground combat unit departs South Vietnam.
1971 Construction begins on Louisiana Superdome
1970 Tony Perez becomes the first to hit a home run in the red seats at Riverfront.
1969 Don Drysdale retires because of damage to his right shoulder
1968 Satchel Paige, 62, and needing 158 days on a major league payroll to qualify for a pension, is signed by Braves
1967 Al Downing becomes 12th to strike-out side on nine pitches.
1966 Last Beatle concert tour of US begins
1965 6 day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles
1964 Race riot in Paterson, New Jersey, USA.
1962 Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3
1961 Warren Spahn records victory number 300, beats Chicago Cubs 2-1.
1960 French colony of Chad became independent
1957 Patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Golf Open
1956 1st flight 4-motor Cessna 620
1955 Indonesia government of Harahap forms
1954 BC Lions plays its 1st CF game, they lose to Montreal Alouettes, 22-0
1952 Hussein Ibn Talal I, proclaimed King of Jordan
1951 100,000 acres flooded from Mississippi River in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Illinois
1950 17th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 17, Philadelphia 7 (88,885)
1949 Gaston Eyskens forms Belgian Government
1948 Summer Olympics opens in London
1945 Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito.
1944 British Premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy
1943 Red Army recaptures Tchukujev, at Kharkov
1942 999 Jews are taken from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium
1941 FRD and Prime Minister Winston Churchill sign Atlantic Charter
1940 38 German aircrafts shot down above England
1939 Sergei Rachmaninovs last appearance in Europe
1938 German commercial plane flies non-stop 25 hours from Berlin to New York.
1935 Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews
1934 1st federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in SF Bay
1929 Persia and Iraq sign friendship treaty
1928 Georges Ronsse becomes world champion cyclists
1926 Cleveland Indians' Tris Speaker hits his 700th MLB double.
1924 1st newsreel pictures of presidential candidates were taken
1923 Dutch Premier de Geer resigns
1920 1st peace of Riga-Soviet Union recognizes Independence of Latvia
1919 Weimar Republic begins in Germany
1918 Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allieds beat Germans.
1914 France declares war on Austria-Hungary
1909 Liner Arapahoe is 1st ship to use SOS distress call
1904 German-ltalian General Von Trotha defeats Herero in SW Africa
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