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100 years anniversary | ||||
11 Aug 1924 | Arlene Dahl: Minneapolis, Minnesota -- Actress / TV panelist (Ambush) | |||
11 Aug 1924 | 1st newsreel pictures of presidential candidates were taken | |||
11 Aug 1924 | US presidential candidates make 1st film for bio-scoop news | |||
11 Aug 1924 | Arlene Dahl Minneapolis Minnesota, actress/TV panelist (Ambush) | |||
75 years anniversary | ||||
11 Aug 1949 | Eric Carmen: Cleveland, Ohio -- Rocker (All by Myself) | |||
11 Aug 1949 | Ian Charleson: Edinburgh, Scotland -- Actor (Gandhi, Chariots of Fire) | |||
11 Aug 1949 | Tim Hutchinson: (Rep-R-Arkansas) | |||
11 Aug 1949 | Karl Weigl: Composer, dies at 68 | |||
11 Aug 1949 | 1st Naples-Capri swim, 17 miles (27 km) (Giovanni Gambi) | |||
11 Aug 1949 | Gaston Eyskens forms Belgian Government | |||
11 Aug 1949 | Eric Carmen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Raspberries) | |||
11 Aug 1949 | Tim Hutchinson, American lawyer and politician | |||
11 Aug 1949 | WW2 | Omar Bradley was appointed the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. | ||
11 Aug 1949 | birth Eric Carmen, singer, The Raspberries, (1972 US No.5 single 'Go All The Way') solo, (1976 US No.2 single, 'All By Myself'). | |||
11 Aug 1949 | Eric Carmen Cleveland, Ohio, rocker (All by Myself) | |||
11 Aug 1949 | Ian Charleson Edinburgh Scotland, actor (Jamie-Master of the Game) | |||
11 Aug 1949 | 1st Naples-Capri swim, 17 miles (27 km) (Giovanni Gambi) | |||
50 years anniversary | ||||
11 Aug 1974 | Vicente Emilio Sojo: Composer, dies at 86 | |||
11 Aug 1974 | 56th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 276 at Tanglewood, North Carolina | |||
11 Aug 1974 | Coup in East-Timor under UDT | |||
11 Aug 1974 | Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey) | |||
11 Aug 1974 | Marie-France Dubreuil, Canadian figure skater | |||
11 Aug 1974 | Anju Jain, Indian cricketer and coach | |||
11 Aug 1974 | Chris Messina, American actor | |||
11 Aug 1974 | Audrey Mestre, French biologist and diver (d. 2002) | |||
11 Aug 1974 | Vicente Emilio Sojo, Venezuelan conductor and composer (b. 1887) | |||
11 Aug 1974 | Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey) | |||
11 Aug 1974 | Lee Trevino wins PGA championship | |||
11 Aug 1974
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore |
birth Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, English cognitive neuroscientist |
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25 years anniversary | ||||
11 Aug 1999 | The Salt Lake City Tornado tears through the downtown district of the city, killing one. | |||
11 Aug 1999 | Kiss arrived on Hollywood Boulevard to unveil their star on The Walk Of Fame. The band had released over 30 albums and sold over 80 million records world-wide. | |||
11 Aug 1999 | Four music festivals took place in Cornwall, England for the full solar eclipse. James, The Levellers, Van Morrison, Kula Shaker and the Happy Mondays were all appearing at various events. | |||
11 Aug 1999 |
Total eclipse In 1999, the last total eclipse of the millenium occurred. Because it travelled across many populated areas, it was perhaps the most-watched eclipse of all time, seen by possibly 350 million people. Totality occurred first over the mid-Atlantic Ocean. The first land crossed by the moon's shadow was the Isles of Scilly, then the far south-west of England, in Cornwall. Although the sun was obscured by clouds there, a dramatic darkness fell, and the temperature dropped, during the totality lasting 1-min 30-sec. From there the path of totality tracked across Europe, India and Iran. In Egypt, Muslims were ordered by clerics to shut themselves away, but Jordan and Syria declared a national holiday. |
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20 years anniversary | ||||
11 Aug 2004 | K. Arulanandan, Ceylon-American engineer and academic (b. 1925) | |||
15 years anniversary | ||||
11 Aug 2009 | Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist, founded the Special Olympics (b. 1921) | |||
10 years anniversary | ||||
11 Aug 2014 | Vladimir Beara, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1928) | |||
11 Aug 2014 | Robin Williams, American actor and comedian (b. 1951) |