Page 5: Historical Events In August - 11

1937  Bakr Sidqi, general/dictator of Iraq, dies on August - 11.   

1939  Sergei Rachmaninovs last appearance in Europe on this day in history.   

1940  On August - 11 38 German aircrafts shot down above England   

1941  British PM Winston Churchill and US President Franklin Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter on August - 11.   

1942  - Sept 30] SS begins exterminating 3,500 Jews in Zelov Lodz Poland on this day in history.   

1942  Richard Heinrich Stein, composer, dies at 60 on August - 11.   

1943  Flying Officer Lloyd Allan Trigg, 200 Squadron, RAF, won the Victoria Cross over the North Sea on this day in history.   

1943  On this day in history red Army recaptures Tchukujev, at Kharkov   

1944  On this day in history an electric powered rescue hoist was installed on an HNS-1 helicopter at CGAS Floyd Bennett Field.   

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

1945  On this day in history allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito   

1948  On this day in history summer Olympics opens in London   

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

1949  On this day in history karl Weigl, composer, dies at 68   

1950  17th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 17, Philadelphia 7 (88,885) on this day in history.   

1951  100,000 acres flooded from Mississippi R in Ks, Okla, Mo & Ill on this day in history.   

1951  Ebbe Hamerik, composer, dies at 52 on this day in history.   

1952  On August - 11 hussein proclaimed king of Jordan   

1952  Hussein Ibn Talal I, proclaimed King of Jordan on this day in history.   

1952  Riccardo Martin, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

1953  On August - 11 ludwig Strauss, German/Israeli writer (Heimliche Gegenwart), dies   

1954  On this day in history formal peace takes place, ending 7+ yrs of fighting in Indochina between French and Communist Vietminh   

1954  On August - 11 bC Lions plays its 1st CF game, they lose to Montreal Alouettes, 22-0   

1955  Indonesia govt of Harahap forms on August - 11.   

1956  On August - 11 elvis Presley releases "Don't Be Cruel"   

1956  1st flight 4-motor Cessna 620 on August - 11.   

1956  On this day in history jackson Pollock, abstract artist, dies in auto accident (East Hampton)   

1957  Patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Golf Open on this day in history.   

1960  On this day in history chad declares independence   

1960  On this day in history chad gains independence from France   

1960  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 on August - 11.   

1960  On this day in history chad declares Independence from France   

1961  On August - 11 warren Spahn records victory #300, beats Cubs 2-1   

1962  Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3 on this day in history.   

« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Next Page »

1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30	31

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

1600  On this day in history birth of paul Hallman, composer   

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

1635  On this day in history birth of thomas Betterton, London, actor/dramatist (Coriolanus)   

1667  On August - 11 birth of anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, last of the Medicis (d. 1743)   

1673  On August - 11 birth of richard Mead, London, physician   

1718  On August - 11 birth of sir Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (d. 1791)   

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

0353  On August - 11 death of magnentius, Roman usurper (b. 303)   

0449  Death of Flavian, Patriarch of Constantinople on this day in history.   

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  Christian I, archbishop of Mainz, dies on this day in history.   

1204  On August - 11 death of king Guttorm of Norway (b. 1199)