Historical Events In August - 11
Monday, 23 May 2022
1937 Bakr Sidqi, general/dictator of Iraq, dies on August - 11.
1939 On August - 11 sergei Rachmaninovs last appearance in Europe
1940 38 German aircrafts shot down above England on August - 11.
1941 On this day in history british PM Winston Churchill and US President Franklin Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter
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 August - 11 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 On this day in history british premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy
1945 On August - 11 allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito
1948 On this day in history summer Olympics opens in London
1949 1st Naples-Capri swim, 17 miles (27 km) (Giovanni Gambi) on August - 11.
1949 On August - 11 karl Weigl, composer, dies at 68
1950 On this day in history 17th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 17, Philadelphia 7 (88,885)
1951 On this day in history 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 On this day in history hussein Ibn Talal I, proclaimed King of Jordan
1952 Riccardo Martin, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.
1953 Ludwig Strauss, German/Israeli writer (Heimliche Gegenwart), dies on this day in history.
1954 Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ yrs of fighting in Indochina between French and Communist Vietminh on August - 11.
1954 BC Lions plays its 1st CF game, they lose to Montreal Alouettes, 22-0 on this day in history.
1955 Indonesia govt of Harahap forms on this day in history.
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 On this day in history patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Golf Open
1960 On this day in history chad declares independence
1960 Chad gains independence from France on this day in history.
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 this day in history.
1960 On August - 11 chad declares Independence from France
1961 Warren Spahn records victory #300, beats Cubs 2-1 on August - 11.
1962 Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3 on August - 11.
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