Historical Events and Current Affairs on August 11

Hadrianus hears of death of emperor Trajanus of Antioch
1253: Clara van Assisi leads rules of life in order of Clarissen
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 Cond‚ 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 3,0
1780: Barbados hurricane begins
1835: George B Airy begins 46-year reign as England's Astronomer Roy
1860: Nation'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
1885: $100,000 raised in US for pedestal for Statue of Liberty
1885: Oakland A's Dave Kingman becomes 21st to hit 400 HR
1888: California Theatre closed (now a Pac Tel Phone Store)
1896: Harvey Hubbell patents electric light bulb socket with a pull
1904: German-ltalian General Von Trotha defeats Herero in SW Africa
1907: St Louis Card Ed Karger pitches perfect game vs Braves, 4-0 in
1909: Liner Arapahoe is 1st ship to use SOS distress call
1909: SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras,
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
1915: Max Wolf discovers asteroid #809 Lundia
1919: Weimar Republic begins in Germany
1920: 1st peace of Riga-Soviet Union recognizes Independence of Latv
1923: Dutch Premier de Geer resigns
1924: 1st newsreel pictures of presidential candidates were taken
1924: US presidential candidates make 1st film for bio-scoop news
1926: Cleve Indian Tris Speaker hits his 700th double
1928: Carl Hubbell's 1st major league victory is a 4-0 shutout of Ph
1928: Georges Ronsse becomes world champion cyclists
1928: K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1097 Vicia
1929: Babe Ruth becomes 1st to hit 500 homers (off Willis Hudlin of
1929: Persia & Iraq sign friendship treaty
1929: Russian-Chinese border fights
1933: Temp reaches 136øF (57.8øC) at San Luis Potos¡, Mex (world rec
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
1941: FRD & PM Winston Churchill sign Atlantic Charter
1942: - Sept 30] SS begins exterminating 3,500 Jews in Zelov Lodz Po
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 S‚es
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 Hirohi
1948: Summer Olympics opens in London
1949: 1st Naples-Capri swim, 17 miles (27 km) (Giovanni Gambi)
1949: Gaston Eyskens forms Belgiangovt
1950: 17th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 17, Philadelphia 7 (
1950: Boston Brave Vern Bickford no-hits Bkln Dodger, 7-0
1950: Hitting just .279, Yank great Joe DiMaggio is benched for 1st
1950: King Boudouin I takes oath as royal prince of Belgium
1951: 100,000 acres flooded from Mississippi R in Ks, Okla, Mo & Ill
1952: Hussein Ibn Talal I, proclaimed King of Jordan
1953: K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #2097 & #4910 Kawasato
1954: between French & Communist Vietminh
1954: Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ yrs of fighting in Indochi
1955: Indonesia govt of Harahap forms
1956: 1st flight 4-motor Cessna 620
1956: Elvis Presley releases Don't Be Cruel
1957: Paul Hindemith' opera Harmonie der Welt, premieres in Munich
1960: Chad declares Independence from France
1960: French colony of Chad became independent
1962: Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vosto
1962: Beach Boys release Surfin' Safari
1962: Dodgers protest wetting down of Candlestick to slow Maury Will
1963: Kingston Trio are mystery guest on What's My Line?
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
1968: Beatles launch Apple Records label
1968: qualify for a pension, is signed by Braves
1968: Satchel Paige, 62, & needing 158 days on a major league payrol
1969: Don Drysdale retires because of damage to his right shoulder
1969: L Chernykh disc asteroid #1832 Mrkos, #1833 Shmakova & #1975 P
1970: Tony Perez becomes 1st to hit a HR in red seats at Riverfront
1971: Construction begins on Louisiana Superdome
1971: Harmon Killebrew hits HRs #500 & 501
1972: Cheech & Chong Day in San Antonio Texas
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 Mi
1976: Race riot in Cape Town, South Africa; 17 die
1977: Geoff Boycott scores his 100th FC hundred, v Aust at Headingle
1978: Funeral of Pope Paul VI
1978: H-E Schuster discovers asteroid #3266
1978: Legionnaire's disease bacteria isolated in Atlanta
1979: 28øF 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 Bur
1982: Twins Terry Felton loses & runs career to 0-14 (en route to 0-
1984: 101,799 fans at soccer match Brazili‰-France
1984: Cincinnati Reds retire Johnny Bench's #5 uniform
1984: During a radio voice test Pres Reagan joked he signed legisla
1984: Men's choir Maranatha Netherlands forms
1984: that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minute
1984: USSR performs (underground) nuclear test
1985: Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB
1985: Tap Dance Kid closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 669 per
1986: L G Karachkina discovers asteroid #4996 Veisberg
1987: France & Great-Britain send minesweepers to Persian Gulf
1988: A J Noymer discovers asteroid #4768 Hartley & #5812 Jayewinkle
1988: C Mikolajczak & R Coker discover asteroid #5280
1988: Charlotte Colisieum in Charlotte NC opens
1988: Meir Kahane renounced US citizenship to stay in Israeli Parlia
1989: Geoff Marsh & Mark Taylor complete 329 opening stand v England
1989: Nightmare on Elm Street 5: Dream Child premieres
1989: Voyager 2 discovers 2 partial rings of Neptune
1990: Egypt & Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi i
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
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
1993: Director Oliver Stone files for divorce from Elizabeth
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 Tartab
1994: A Boattini & M Tombelli discover asteroid #7481 San Marcello
1994: Joao B Nino Vieira elected pres of Guinee-Bissau
1996: Thousand Clowns, closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 32 pe
1997: Benin legalizes Jan 10th as a voodoo holiday
1999: Total solar eclipse in India-North -France (2m23s)
2002: 33 persons killed in cloudburst
2002: 58 Killed in Russian Floods
2002: 8 Militants killed in the Kashmir Valley while they are trying
2002: A BBC journalist accused Downing Street of hacking into the
2002: A U.S. Navy Sailor was arrested and charged with assaulting an
2002: A woman committed suicide by jumping into a Crocodile pool at
2002: DMK President, Karunanidhi supports President Abdul Kalam's vi
2002: Janakinath Bhavan, the birth place of Netaji Subash Chandra Bo
2002: Police raided two buildings and seized explosives and heavy we

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