Page 5: Historical Events In August - 11

1937  On this day in history bakr Sidqi, general/dictator of Iraq, dies   

1939  On August - 11 sergei Rachmaninovs last appearance in Europe   

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

1941  On this day in history british PM Winston Churchill and US President Franklin Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter   

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

1942  On this day in history richard Heinrich Stein, composer, dies at 60   

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

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 this day in history british premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy   

1945  Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito on August - 11.   

1948  On August - 11 summer Olympics opens in London   

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

1949  On this day in history 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 August - 11.   

1952  Hussein proclaimed king of Jordan on August - 11.   

1952  Hussein Ibn Talal I, proclaimed King of Jordan on August - 11.   

1952  Riccardo Martin, composer, dies at 77 on August - 11.   

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

1955  Indonesia govt of Harahap forms on this day in history.   

1956  Elvis Presley releases "Don't Be Cruel" on this day in history.   

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

1956  Jackson Pollock, abstract artist, dies in auto accident (East Hampton) on August - 11.   

1957  On August - 11 patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Golf Open   

1960  On August - 11 chad declares independence   

1960  Chad gains independence from France on this day in history.   

1960  On August - 11 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  On this day in history chad declares Independence from France   

1961  Warren Spahn records victory #300, beats Cubs 2-1 on this day in history.   

1962  On August - 11 andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3   

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1467  On this day in history 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  Thomas Betterton, London, actor/dramatist (Coriolanus) was born on this day in history.   

1667  On this day in history 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  On August - 11 birth of martin Gerbert, composer   

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

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

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 August - 11.   

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

1183  On this day in history christian I, archbishop of Mainz, dies   

1204  On this day in history death of king Guttorm of Norway (b. 1199)