Historical Events In August - 11

1937  Bakr Sidqi, general/dictator of Iraq, dies on this day in history.   

1939  On August - 11 sergei Rachmaninovs last appearance in Europe   

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 this day in history.   

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

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

1943  On August - 11 flying Officer Lloyd Allan Trigg, 200 Squadron, RAF, won the Victoria Cross over the North Sea   

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

1944  On August - 11 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  Summer Olympics opens in London on August - 11.   

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

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

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

1952  Hussein proclaimed king of Jordan on this day in history.   

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  Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ yrs of fighting in Indochina between French and Communist Vietminh on August - 11.   

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

1955  On August - 11 indonesia govt of Harahap forms   

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

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

1956  On August - 11 jackson Pollock, abstract artist, dies in auto accident (East Hampton)   

1957  Patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Golf Open on August - 11.   

1960  On August - 11 chad declares independence   

1960  On August - 11 chad gains independence from France   

1960  On this day in history 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  Warren Spahn records victory #300, beats Cubs 2-1 on this day in history.   

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

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1467  On August - 11 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 August - 11 birth of thomas Betterton, London, actor/dramatist (Coriolanus)   

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 this day in history.   

1718  On this day in history birth of sir Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (d. 1791)   

1720  Martin Gerbert, composer was born on this day in history.   

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

0449  On this day in history death of flavian, Patriarch of Constantinople   

0480  Death of Leonidas, King of Sparta (b. circa 540 BC) on this day in history.   

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

1171  Louis I, Earl of Wage/Rieneck, dies on this day in history.   

1180  On this day in history guillaume de/Willem van Sens, Fren master builder (Canterbury), dies   

1183  On August - 11 christian I, archbishop of Mainz, dies   

1204  Death of King Guttorm of Norway (b. 1199) on this day in history.