Historical Events In August - 11

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

1939  On this day in history 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 August - 11.  

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

1942  On August - 11 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  Red Army recaptures Tchukujev, at Kharkov on this day in history.  

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

1944  On August - 11 british premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy  

1945  Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito on this day in history.  

1948  Summer Olympics opens in London on August - 11.  

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

1949  Karl Weigl, composer, dies at 68 on August - 11.  

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  On August - 11 ebbe Hamerik, composer, dies at 52  

1952  On August - 11 hussein proclaimed king of Jordan  

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

1952  On August - 11 riccardo Martin, composer, dies at 77  

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 August - 11.  

1955  On August - 11 indonesia govt of Harahap forms  

1956  Elvis Presley releases "Don't Be Cruel" on August - 11.  

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

1956  On this day in history 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  On August - 11 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 August - 11 chad declares Independence from France  

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

1962  On this day in history andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3  

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1467  On August - 11 birth of mary of York, English princess (d. 1482)  

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

1613  On August - 11 birth of cristoph Kaldenbach, composer  

1635  On this day in history 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 August - 11 birth of sir Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (d. 1791)  

1720  On this day in history birth of martin Gerbert, composer  

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

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

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

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

1183  Christian I, archbishop of Mainz, dies on this day in history.  

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