Page 5: Historical Events In August - 11

1937  On August - 11 bakr Sidqi, general/dictator of Iraq, dies   

1939  Sergei Rachmaninovs last appearance in Europe on August - 11.   

1940  38 German aircrafts shot down above England on August - 11.   

1941  British PM Winston Churchill and US President Franklin Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter on this day in history.   

1942  - Sept 30] SS begins exterminating 3,500 Jews in Zelov Lodz Poland on August - 11.   

1942  On this day in history richard Heinrich Stein, composer, dies at 60   

1943  Flying Officer Lloyd Allan Trigg, 200 Squadron, RAF, won the Victoria Cross over the North Sea on August - 11.   

1943  On August - 11 red Army recaptures Tchukujev, at Kharkov   

1944  An electric powered rescue hoist was installed on an HNS-1 helicopter at CGAS Floyd Bennett Field on August - 11.   

1944  British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy on this day in history.   

1945  Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito on August - 11.   

1948  Summer Olympics opens in London on this day in history.   

1949  On August - 11 1st Naples-Capri swim, 17 miles (27 km) (Giovanni Gambi)   

1949  Karl Weigl, composer, dies at 68 on this day in history.   

1950  17th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 17, Philadelphia 7 (88,885) on August - 11.   

1951  100,000 acres flooded from Mississippi R in Ks, Okla, Mo & Ill on August - 11.   

1951  Ebbe Hamerik, composer, dies at 52 on August - 11.   

1952  Hussein proclaimed king of Jordan on August - 11.   

1952  On this day in history hussein Ibn Talal I, proclaimed King of Jordan   

1952  Riccardo Martin, composer, dies at 77 on August - 11.   

1953  Ludwig Strauss, German/Israeli writer (Heimliche Gegenwart), dies on this day in history.   

1954  On August - 11 formal peace takes place, ending 7+ yrs of fighting in Indochina between French and Communist Vietminh   

1954  BC Lions plays its 1st CF game, they lose to Montreal Alouettes, 22-0 on August - 11.   

1955  Indonesia govt of Harahap forms on this day in history.   

1956  On this day in history elvis Presley releases "Don't Be Cruel"   

1956  On this day in history 1st flight 4-motor Cessna 620   

1956  Jackson Pollock, abstract artist, dies in auto accident (East Hampton) on this day in history.   

1957  On this day in history patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Golf Open   

1960  Chad declares independence on August - 11.   

1960  Chad gains independence from France on August - 11.   

1960  On August - 11 in the first recovery of an object after it had been in orbit, a Navy HRS-3 helicopter, operating from the Haiti Victory of the Pacific Missile Range, recovered the instrumented capsule discharged by Discoverer XIII   

1960  Chad declares Independence from France on this day in history.   

1961  On this day in history warren Spahn records victory #300, beats Cubs 2-1   

1962  Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3 on August - 11.   

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1467  On this day in history birth of mary of York, English princess (d. 1482)   

1600  Paul Hallman, composer was born on this day in history.   

1613  On this day in history birth of cristoph Kaldenbach, composer   

1635  Thomas Betterton, London, actor/dramatist (Coriolanus) was born on this day in history.   

1667  Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, last of the Medicis (d. 1743) was born on August - 11.   

1673  Richard Mead, London, physician was born on August - 11.   

1718  Sir Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (d. 1791) was born on this day in history.   

1720  Martin Gerbert, composer was born on August - 11.   

0353  Death of Magnentius, Roman usurper (b. 303) on this day in history.   

0449  Death of Flavian, Patriarch of Constantinople on August - 11.   

0480  On August - 11 death of leonidas, King of Sparta (b. circa 540 BC)   

0897  On August - 11 death of wilfred the Hairy, Count of Barcelona   

1171  On August - 11 louis I, Earl of Wage/Rieneck, dies   

1180  Guillaume de/Willem van Sens, Fren master builder (Canterbury), dies on August - 11.   

1183  On this day in history christian I, archbishop of Mainz, dies   

1204  Death of King Guttorm of Norway (b. 1199) on August - 11.