Historical Events In August - 11

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

1939  Sergei Rachmaninovs last appearance in Europe on this day in history.  

1940  38 German aircrafts shot down above England on August - 11.  

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

1944  British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy on August - 11.  

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1945  On August - 11 allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito  

1948  Summer Olympics opens in London on August - 11.  

1949  On this day in history 1st Naples-Capri swim, 17 miles (27 km) (Giovanni Gambi)  

1949  Karl Weigl, composer, dies at 68 on this day in history.  

1950  On August - 11 17th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 17, Philadelphia 7 (88,885)  

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

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

1952  Hussein proclaimed king of Jordan on August - 11.  

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

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

1953  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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 August - 11.  

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

1957  Patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Golf Open on this day in history.  

1960  On this day in history chad declares independence  

1960  Chad gains independence from France on August - 11.  

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 August - 11 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  Mary of York, English princess (d. 1482) was born on this day in history.  

1600  On this day in history birth of paul Hallman, composer  

1613  On August - 11 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  Death of Magnentius, Roman usurper (b. 303) on August - 11.  

0449  On August - 11 death of flavian, Patriarch of Constantinople  

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

0897  On this day in history death of wilfred the Hairy, Count of Barcelona  

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

1180  On August - 11 guillaume de/Willem van Sens, Fren master builder (Canterbury), dies  

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

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