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What happened in history on this day: August 11?
On August 11 in ...
- 1086 - Birth of Heinrich V, King of the Germans and Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1464 - Death of Nikolaus von Kues, German scholar in many areas, priest/bishop/cardinal, at age 63.
- 1519 - Death of Johann Tetzel in Leipzig (seller of indulgences at the time of Martin Luther).
- 1772 - Explosive eruption blows 4,000 feet off Papandayan Java, kills 3,000.
- 1778 - Birth of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn; founder of turnverein (gymnastics) movement.
- 1780 - Barbados hurricane begins.
- 1794 - Birth of James Barton Longacre in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA; engraver at US Mint for 25 years, designer of US Flying Eagle cent and Indian Head cent, portrait painter.
- 1808 - In Spain, the Council of Castile declares the abdication of Ferdinand VII null and void.
- 1823 - Birth of Charlotte Mary Yonge in England; writer (Heir of Redclyffe).
- 1833 - Birth of Robert Green Ingersoll in New York City, New York, USA; author/politician/agnostic (Attorney General-Republican-Illinois).
- 1835 - George B Airy begins 46-year reign as England's Astronomer Royal.
- 1837 - Birth of Sadi Carnot; engineer, French president (1887-94); assassinated.
- 1860 - America's first successful silver mill (Virginia City, Nevada).
- 1862 - Birth of Carrie Jacobs Bond in Janesville, Wisconsin, USA; songwriter ("I Love You Truly").
- 1866 - World's first roller rink opens (Newport, Rhode Island).
- 1867 - Birth of Joseph Weber; comedian (Weber and Fields).
- 1868 - Thaddeus Stevens, architect of Radical Reconstruction in US South, dies at age 76.
- 1892 - Birth of Hugh MacDiarmid in Scotland; writer (Scots Unbound).
- 1897 - Birth of Louise Bogan in Maine, USA; writer (Sleeping Fury).
- 1900 - Birth of Alexander Mosolov in Kiev, Russia; composer (Zavod).
- 1900 - Birth of Charles Paddock; sprinter (world's fastest human of 1920s).
- 1902 - Birth of Lloyd Nolan in San Francisco, California, USA; actor (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Peyton Place).
- 1909 - Morse code distress signal "SOS" first used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
- 1911 - Birth of Henry Kulky in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, USA; actor (Otto - Life of Riley).
- 1912 - Birth of Jean Parker in Montana, USA; actress (Beyond Tomorrow, Little Women).
- 1913 - Birth of Angus Wilson in England; writer (Mulberry Bush - 1955).
- 1914 - Jews are expelled from Mitchenick, Poland.
- 1918 - Battle of Amiens ends, Allies beat Germans.
- 1919 - Green Bay Packers football club is founded.
- 1920 - Birth of William Masselos in Niagara Falls, New York, USA; pianist/professor (Juiliard 1976).
- 1921 - Birth of Alex Haley; American author (Roots).
- 1924 - Birth of Arlene Dahl in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; actress/TV panelist (Ambush).
- 1925 - Birth of Carl Rowan; gun-toting newspaper columnist (Washington Post).
- 1925 - Birth of Mike Douglas in Chicago, Illinois, USA; talk show host (Mike Douglas Show).
- 1926 - Cleveland Indians' Tris Speaker hits his 700th MLB double.
- 1927 - Birth of Raymond Leppard in London, England; conductor (Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra).
- 1929 - Babe Ruth becomes first in Major League Baseball to hit 500 homers.
- 1929 - Birth of Alun Hoddinott in Bargoed, Wales; composer (Floriture).
- 1930 - Birth of William A O'Neal; American politician (Governor-Democrat-Connecticut).
- 1933 - Birth of Jerry Falwell; televangelist, Moral Majority head.
- 1933 - Temperature reaches 136 degrees F (58 degrees C) at San Luis Potosí, Mexico (world record).
- 1934 - First federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay, California.
- 1935 - In Briggsdale, Colorado, USA a meteorite falls harmlessly to the ground.
- 1937 - Birth of Anna Massey; actress (De Sade, Doll's House).
- 1938 - German commercial plane flies non-stop 25 hours from Berlin to New York.
- 1940 - Birth of Kip King in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Charlie and Company).
- 1941 - Birth of Elizabeth Holtzman in Brooklyn, New York, USA; district attorney (Democrat-Representative-New York, Watergate Committee).
- 1942 - Birth of Mike Hugg; drummer (Manfred Mann).
- 1945 - The London Daily Telegraph reports that Britain prepared for an atomic bomb attack by Germany in August 1944.
- 1945 - Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito.
- 1946 - Birth of Marilyn Vos Savant in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; writer/world's highest IQ (Guinness Book of Records).
- 1947 - Birth of Jeff Hanna; singer/guitarist (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band).
- 1947 - Birth of Sergey Kovalneko in the USSR; basketball (Olympic-bronze-1968).
- 1949 - First Naples-Capri swim, 17 miles (27 km) (Giovanni Gambi).
- 1949 - Birth of Eric Carmen in Cleveland, Ohio, USA; rocker ("All by Myself").
- 1949 - Birth of Ian Charleson in Edinburgh, Scotland; actor (Jamie - Master of the Game).
- 1950 - Birth of Erik Brann; guitarist (Iron Butterfly).
- 1950 - Birth of Steve Gary Wozniak; cofounder of Apple Computer.
- 1950 - Boston Braves' pitcher Vern Bickford no-hits Brooklyn Dodgers, 7-0.
- 1951 - First color baseball game (Boston Braves versus Brooklyn Dodgers) telecast (WCBS-New York City).
- 1951 - New York Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (Canadian Football League) 38-6 in Ottawa.
- 1952 - Birth of Ann Michelle in England; actress (Virigin Witch).
- 1952 - Hussein proclaimed king of Jordan.
- 1953 - Birth of Hulk Hogan [Terry Bollea] in Georgia, USA; WWF heavyweight champion (1984-89).
- 1953 - Birth of Sanford Jensen in South Haven, Michigan, USA; actor (Foley Square).
- 1954 - Birth of Lina Polito in Naples, Italy; actress (Love and Anarchy).
- 1954 - Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ years of fighting in Indochina between French and Communist Vietminh.
- 1955 - Birth of Joe Jackson in England; singer ("Steppin' Out").
- 1956 - Jackson Pollock, abstract artist, dies in auto accident (East Hampton).
- 1960 - Chad declares independence from France.
- 1961 - Warren Spahn records victory number 300, beats Chicago Cubs 2-1.
- 1962 - Andrian G Nikolayev becomes third Russian in space aboard Vostok 3.
- 1964 - Birth of Hamish; rocker (The Pasedenas - "Riding on the Train").
- 1964 - Race riot in Paterson, New Jersey, USA.
- 1965 - Six-day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles, California.
- 1966 - Last USA concert tour of The Beatles begins.
- 1967 - Al Downing becomes 12th to strike-out side on nine pitches.
- 1968 - The Beatles launch the Apple Records label.
- 1969 - Birth of Eddie Garcia in Louisiana, USA; actor/musician (Guys Next Door - "I Was Made For You").
- 1969 - Pittsburgh Steelers beat New York Giants 17-13 in Montreal (NFL expo).
- 1970 - Jim Bunning becomes second (Cy Young) to win 100 games in both leagues.
- 1970 - Tony Perez becomes the first to hit a home run in the red seats at Riverfront.
- 1971 - Harmon Killebrew hits home runs #500 and 501.
- 1973 - Peggy Castle, actress (Lily Merrill - Lawman), dies at age 46.
- 1973 - MCA/Universal Pictures releases the film American Graffiti to theaters in the USA.
- 1974 - Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey).
- 1974 - Lee Trevino wins PGA championship.
- 1975 - Montreal Expos' Jose Mangual struck out five times in a game.
- 1975 - US vetoes proposed admission of North and South Vietnam to United Nations.
- 1979 - The former Mauritanian province of Tiris al-Gharbiyya in Western Sahara is annexed by Morocco.
- 1980 - Reggie Jackson hits his 400th homer.
- 1984 - United States President Ronald Reagan, during a voice check for a radio broadcast remarks "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes".
- 1984 - Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat, wins four Olympic track golds.
- 1984 - Cincinnati Reds retire Johnny Bench's number 5 uniform.
- 1985 - Hubert Green wins PGA championship.
- 1985 - Oakland Athletics' Dave Kingman becomes the 21st to hit 400 home run.
- 1985 - Rudolf Povarnitsin of USSR sets new high jump world record (2.40 metres).
- 1986 - Bob Tway wins PGA championship.
- 1987 - Economist Alan Greenspan takes office as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
- 1987 - Death of Clara Peller at age 86; American actress ("Where's the Beef") (born 1902).
- 1988 - Gary Carter (New York Mets) becomes 59th player to hit 300 career home runs.
- 1988 - Jean-Pierre Ponnele, opera director (Carmina Burana), dies at age 56.
- 1988 - Meir Kahane renounces US citizenship to stay in Israeli Parliament.
- 1989 - Voyager 2 discovers two partial rings of Neptune.
- 1990 - Egypt and Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion.
- 1990 - New York Yankees' player Kevin Maas is fastest to get 13 home runs (110 at bats).
- 1991 - John Daly, rookie golfer, wins the PGA title.
- 1991 - Shite Muslims release US hostage Edward Tracy.
- 1991 - Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) lands.
- 1994 - The Columbus Iselin, a ship conducting oil spill research, runs aground in the Looe Key National Marine Sanctuary off the Florida Keys and leaks fuel.
- 1996 - The British rock band Oasis plays the biggest free-standing concert in United Kingdom history at Knebworth, Hertfordshire.
- 1999 - A total solar eclipse is seen in Europe and Asia.
- 1999 - An F-2 tornado rips through downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, killing one person and injuring over 100.
- 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.
- 2003 - A heat wave in Paris causes temperatures up to 44 degrees C (112 degrees F).
- 2006 - A resolution to end the 2006 Lebanon War is unanimously accepted by the United Nations Security Council.
- 2007 - Presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Sierra Leone.
- 2007 - A likely meteor shower is reported over Sonora, California.
- 2008 - Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe breaks the world record in the semifinals of the women's 100-metre backstroke at 58.77 seconds at the Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.
- 2008 - Russian troops invade western Georgia and Russian planes launch air raids across the country.
- 2009 - Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the sister of President John F Kennedy and founder of the Special Olympics, dies at age 88 in Massachusetts, USA.
- 2009 - (to August 13) The Perseid meteor showers peak at 200 observations per hour.
- 2010 - Dan Rostenkowski, Illinois Democratic Representative (1958-94), dies at age 82.
- 2016 - General election in Zambia, President Edgar Lungu is re-elected with 50.35 percent of vote.
- 2019 - At least 114 people, including 57 in Kerala, 30 in Karnataka and 27 in Maharashtra, are reported to have died in monsoon-related floods in India. At least 227 die across India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
- 2020 - Russian President Vladimir Putin announces that Russia has approved the world's first COVID-19 vaccine.
- 2022 - Death of Darius Campbell Danesh at age 41; singer, actor (Popstars TV show, Pop Idol TV show).
- 2022 - Death of Jean-Jacques Sempé at age 89; French cartoonist (Little Nicolas books).
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