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Tuesday, 11 August 2026
1976 Seychelles gains independence from Britain. 
1976 Leonora Summers, entertainer, dies.
1977 Supreme Court ruled out death penalty for rapists of adults.
1977 Anton D Hildebrand, children's book writer (Monus), dies at 70.
1978 VP Walter F Mondale begins trip to Mid-East
1978 Bob Crane, actor (Hogan's Heroes), murdered at 59
1979 Ben Barnett, cricketer (4 Tests for Australia 1938), dies.
1981 Mohammed Hussein Beheshti, Iran ayatollah/politician, murdered
1982 Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended
1982 Gerard[us PM] Knuvelder, literature historian (Anthology), dies
1984 USSR offers to start talking about banning SDI.
1985 STS 51-F vehicle moves to the launch pad.
1985 Vancouver businessman Jimmy Pattison pays $2.229000 for a yellow Rolls-Royce formerly owned by the Beatles
1986 Ida Mae McKenzie, entertainer, dies
1989 Susan Lucci loses the daytime emmy for 10th straight year.
1990 Marla Maples father sues the National Enquirer for $12M.
1990 Irving Wallace, author (Book of Lists, Peoples Almanac), dies at 74
1992 Mohammed Boudiaf, president of Algeria, assassinated at 73.
1994 Cameron Mitchell, actor (Man on Tightrope), dies of lung cancer at 76
1995 Lana (Julia Jean) Turner actress and WWII poster girl died.
1995 the Memphis Mad Dogs play their inaugural CFL game, against the Calgary Stampeders; part of a failed Canadian Football League attempt to expand to the US.
1995 Lana Turner, actress (Madame X), dies of cancer at 75.
1996 Ottawa rocker Alanis Morrissette performs eight songs from her hit album Jagged Little Pill before 150000 people in London's Hyde Park
1996 Alexander George Ogston, biochemist, dies at 85
1997 William Hickey, actor (Prizzi's Honor), dies of emphysema at 68
2006 Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The United States Supreme Court rules that the military commissions to be used to try some detainees in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp are illegal
2006 The Dutch cabinet Balkenende II steps down after the political party of D'66 drops its support
2006 Women vote for the inaugural time in elections for the National Assembly of Kuwait.
2007 Apple's new iPhone is released in the US.
2007 British police defuse a bomb in Haymarket, Central London.[18]
2012 16 Naxalite Maoist insurgents in India are killed by police.
2017 Vatican treasurer Cardinel George Pell charged with historic sexual offences in Victoria, Australian.
2017 Mihai Tudose confirmed as Romanian Prime Minister, by parliament, succeeding Sorin Grindeanu.
2017 Battle for Mosul: Iraqi forces retake destroyed Great Mosque of al-Nuri from Islamic State - symbolic site where their leader declared a "caliphate"
