Page 4: Historical Events In August - 11

1909  SOS inaugural used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC.   

1909  Liner "Arapahoe" is 1st ship to use SOS distress call   

1909  Gaston Gilbert Litaize, composer.   

1910  Denis Moloney, NZ cricket all-rounder (1937 England tour)   

1911  Alphonse de Waelhens, Flemish philosopher (Psychosis)   

1912  Jean Parker, Butte Mont, actress (Beyond Tomorrow, Little Women)   

1913  Angus Wilson, England, writer (Mulberry Bush-1955)   

1914  Jews are expelled from Mitchenick Poland   

1914  France declares war on Austria-Hungary   

1915  Kunio Toda, composer.   

1917  Dik Browne, cartoonist (Hi and Lois, Hagar the Horrible).   

1918  Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allieds beat Germans.   

1919  Green Bay Packers football club founded.   

1919  Andrew Carnegie, US steel industrialist/philanthropist, dies at 83.   

1920  1st peace of Riga-Soviet Union recognizes Independence of Latvia.   

1920  Derry Jeffares, Honorary Prof of English Studies (Stirling U).   

1921  Alex Haley, US, writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots)   

1923  Dutch Premier de Geer steps down.   

1923  Stan Chambers, American television reporter.   

1924  1st newsreel pictures of presidential candidates were taken   

1924  Arlene Dahl, Minneapolis Minnesota, actress/TV panelist (Ambush)   

1925  Carl Rowan, gun-toting newspaper columnist (Wash Post)   

1926  Cleve Indian Tris Speaker hits his 700th double   

1926  Aaron Klug, OM/PRS/biochemist.   

1927  James Eaton, Lord-Lieutenant of the City of Londonderry.   

1928  Carl Hubbell's 1st major league victory is a 4-0 shutout of Phils.   

1929  Babe Ruth is recorded as becoming 1st to hit 500 homers (off Willis Hudlin of Cleve)   

1933  Temp reaches 136°F (57.8°C) at San Luis Potosi, Mex (world record).   

1934  inaugural federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in SF Bay   

1934  1st federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in SF Bay   

1935  Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews.   

1935  William Watson, British poet (Purple East), dies   

1936  Chaing Kai-shek's troops conquers Kanton.   

1937  Bakr Sidqi, general/dictator of Iraq, dies.   

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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 August - 11 birth of cristoph Kaldenbach, composer   

1635  Thomas Betterton, London, actor/dramatist (Coriolanus) was born on August - 11.   

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  Sir Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (d. 1791) was born on August - 11.   

1720  On August - 11 birth of martin Gerbert, composer   

0353  On this day in history death of magnentius, Roman usurper (b. 303)   

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

0480  Death of Leonidas, King of Sparta (b. circa 540 BC) on August - 11.   

0897  Death of Wilfred the Hairy, Count of Barcelona on this day in history.   

1171  On this day in history louis I, Earl of Wage/Rieneck, dies   

1180  Guillaume de/Willem van Sens, Fren master builder (Canterbury), dies on this day in history.   

1183  Christian I, archbishop of Mainz, dies on August - 11.   

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