August 11

August 11 is the 223th day of the year (224th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 142 days remaining.

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Events

3114 BC - beginning of our current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar
480 BC - Persians under Xerxes defeat Spartans under King Leonidas in the Battle of Thermopylae. The Spartans fight to the last man
480 BC - The Persian and Greek fleets also fight the indecisive Battle of Artemisium.
1858 - First ascent of the Eiger.
1918 - Great War - Battle of Amiens ends
1919 - Constitution of Weimar Republic adopted
1934 - Federal prison opened at Alcatraz Island
1943 - World War II - First Quebec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, T. V. Soong and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
1948 - Olympic games open in London
1951 - René Pleven becomes Prime Minister of France
1952 - Hussein proclaimed king of Jordan
1960 - Chad declares independence
1965 - Race riots begin in Watts area of Los Angeles, California
1966 - John Lennon held a press conference in Chicago excusing himself from the "Jesus affair"
1970 - Patent issued for the spork to the Van Brode Milling Company
1972 - Last United States ground combat unit departs South Vietnam
1994 - An Aviateca Boeing 737 crashes into Chichontepec volcano, El Salvador killing 65
1999 - total eclipse in Europe and Asia
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 Islamiah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.

1718 - Sir Frederick Haldimand - professional soldier
1807 - David Rice Atchison, American politician (d. 1886)
1833 - Robert G. Ingersoll, American political leader and orator, atheist, American Civil War Colonel (d. 1899)
1902 - Lloyd Nolan, actor (d. 1982)
1902 - Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (d. 1986)
1905 - Erwin Chargaff, biochemist (d. 2002)
1921 - Alex Haley, historian, novelist (d. 1992)
1925 - Carl Rowan, journalist
1932 - Fernando Arrabal, playwright, novelist
1933 - Jerry Falwell, Christian preacher and politician
1943 - Abigail Folger, Coffee heiress.
1943 - Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani general and leader
1946 - Marilyn vos Savant, newspaper columnist
1950 - Steve Wozniak, personal computer pioneer
1950 - Gennidy Nikonov- Designer of the AN-94 assault rifle
1953 - Hulk Hogan (Terry Gene Bollea), professional wrestler
1954 - Joe Jackson, singer
1954 - Juan Maria Solare, music composer and pianist
1967 - Joe Rogan, comedian, television host
1972 - Jonathon Prandi, male model
1974 - Audrey Mestre, freediver