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Events on the 11th of August in history

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11 Aug 0106 The south-western part of Dacia (modern Romania) becomes a Roman province: Roman Dacia.
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11 Aug 0117 Hadrianus hears of death of Emperor Trajanus of Antioch
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11 Aug 0355 Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius II.
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11 Aug 0490 Battle of Adda: The Goths under Theodoric the Great and his ally Alaric II defeat the forces of Odoacer on the Adda River, near Milan.
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11 Aug 1253 Clara van Assisi leads rules of life in order of Clarissen
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11 Aug 1304 Sea battle of Zierikzee
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11 Aug 1332 Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Dupplin Moor: Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol.
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11 Aug 1473 The Battle of Otlukbeli: Mehmed the Conqueror of the Ottoman Empire decisively defeats Uzun Hassan of Aq Qoyunlu.
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11 Aug 1492 Rodrigo de Borja becomes Pope Alexander VI
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11 Aug 1522 Uprising of adel / burgerij in Austria fails
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11 Aug 1597 Germany throws out English sales people
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11 Aug 1611 Emperor Rudolf forces out King of Bohemia
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11 Aug 1675 Franco-Dutch War: Forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle of Konzer Brücke.
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11 Aug 1695 English and Dutch fleet capture Dunkerk
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11 Aug 1772 Explosive eruption blows 4,000' off Papandayan Java, kills 3,000
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11 Aug 1780 Barbados hurricane begins
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11 Aug 1786 Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
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11 Aug 1804 Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria.
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11 Aug 1812 Peninsular War: French troops engage British-Portuguese forces in the Battle of Majadahonda.
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11 Aug 1813 In Colombia, Juan del Corral declares the independence of Antioquia.
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11 Aug 1835 George B Airy begins 46-year reign as England's Astronomer Royal
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11 Aug 1858 The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.
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11 Aug 1860 Nation's 1st successful silver mill (Virginia City, Nev)
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11 Aug 1863 Cambodia becomes French protectorate
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11 Aug 1866 World's 1st roller rink opens (Newport, RI)
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11 Aug 1874 Harry S Parmelee patents sprinkler head
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11 Aug 1877 Asaph Hall discovers Mars's moon Deimos
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11 Aug 1885 $100,000 raised in US for pedestal for Statue of Liberty
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11 Aug 1888 California Theatre closed (now a Pac Tel Phone Store)
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11 Aug 1896 Harvey Hubbell patents electric light bulb socket with a pull chain
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11 Aug 1898 Spanish–American War: American troops enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
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11 Aug 1904 German-ltalian General Von Trotha defeats Herero in SW Africa
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11 Aug 1907 St Louis Card Ed Karger pitches perfect game vs Braves, 4-0 in 7 inn
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11 Aug 1909 Liner "Arapahoe" is 1st ship to use SOS distress call
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11 Aug 1909 SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
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11 Aug 1909 Warren Bardsley (136 & 130) 1st to get twin tons in a Test
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11 Aug 1914 France declares war on Austria-Hungary
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11 Aug 1914 John Wray patents animation
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11 Aug 1914 Mitchenick Poland, expels Jews
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11 Aug 1914 Jews are expelled from Mitchenick Poland
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11 Aug 1918 World War I: The Battle of Amiens ends.
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11 Aug 1918 Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allieds beat Germans
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11 Aug 1919 Weimar Republic begins in Germany
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11 Aug 1919 The constitution of the Weimar Republic is adopted.
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11 Aug 1919 Green Bay Packers football club founded
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11 Aug 1920 1st peace of Riga-Soviet Union recognizes Independence of Latvia
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11 Aug 1920 The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.
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11 Aug 1923 Dutch Premier de Geer resigns
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11 Aug 1924 1st newsreel pictures of presidential candidates were taken
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11 Aug 1924 US presidential candidates make 1st film for bio-scoop news
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11 Aug 1926 Cleveland Indian Tris Speaker hits his 700th double
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11 Aug 1928 Georges Ronsse becomes world champion cyclists
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11 Aug 1929 Babe Ruth becomes 1st to hit 500 homers (off Willis Hudlin of Cleveland)
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11 Aug 1929 Persia and Iraq sign friendship treaty
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11 Aug 1929 Russian-Chinese border fights
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11 Aug 1929 Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
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11 Aug 1929 Babe Ruth becomes 1st to hit 500 homers
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11 Aug 1933 Temp reaches 136
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11 Aug 1934 The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
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11 Aug 1934 1st federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in SF Bay
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11 Aug 1935 Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews
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11 Aug 1939 Sergei Rachmaninovs last appearance in Europe
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11 Aug 1940 38 German aircrafts shot down above England
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11 Aug 1940 German air raid on British harbors Portland / Weymouth
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11 Aug 1941 FRD and Prime Minister Winston Churchill sign Atlantic Charter
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11 Aug 1942 999 Jews are taken from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium
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11 Aug 1942 British aircraft carrier Eagle torpedoed and sinks
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11 Aug 1942 Lieutenant General Montgomery makes landing on Gibraltar
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11 Aug 1942 Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.
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11 Aug 1943 Red Army recaptures Tchukujev, at Kharkov
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11 Aug 1943 US amphibians land at Brolo on north coast of Sicily
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11 Aug 1944 British Premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy
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11 Aug 1944 Klaus Barbie, Gestapo head of Lyon France leaves for Auschwitz
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11 Aug 1944 US air raid on Palembang
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11 Aug 1945 Poles in Kraków engage in a pogrom against Jews in the city, killing one and wounding five.
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11 Aug 1945 Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito
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11 Aug 1947 Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founding father of Pakistan, gives a speech to the Constituent Assembly, the contents and meaning of which remain contentious today.
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11 Aug 1948 Summer Olympics opens in London
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11 Aug 1949 Gaston Eyskens forms Belgian Government
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11 Aug 1949 1st Naples-Capri swim, 17 miles (27 km) (Giovanni Gambi)
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11 Aug 1950 17th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 17, Philadelphia 7 (88,885)
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11 Aug 1950 Boston Brave Vern Bickford no-hits Brooklyn Dodger, 7-0
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11 Aug 1950 Hitting just .279, Yank great Joe DiMaggio is benched for 1st time
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11 Aug 1950 King Boudouin I takes oath as royal Prince of Belgium
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11 Aug 1951 100,000 acres flooded from Mississippi River in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Illinois
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11 Aug 1951 New York Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 38-6 in Ottawa
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11 Aug 1951 1st color baseball game (Braves vs Dodgers) telecast (WCBS-NYC)
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11 Aug 1951 NY Giants lose & 13
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11 Aug 1952 Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.
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11 Aug 1952 Hussein proclaimed king of Jordan
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11 Aug 1954 BC Lions plays its 1st CF game, they lose to Montreal Alouettes, 22-0
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11 Aug 1954 Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ yrs of fighting in Indochina between French & Communist Vietminh
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11 Aug 1955 Indonesia government of Harahap forms
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11 Aug 1956 1st flight 4-motor Cessna 620
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11 Aug 1956 Elvis Presley releases "Don't Be Cruel"
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11 Aug 1957 Patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Golf Open
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11 Aug 1959 Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens.
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11 Aug 1960 French colony of Chad became independent
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11 Aug 1960 Chad declares independence.
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11 Aug 1961 The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
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11 Aug 1961 Warren Spahn records victory #300, beats Cubs 2-1
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11 Aug 1962 Bolotnikov runs world record 10km (28:18.2)
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11 Aug 1962 Dodgers protest wetting down of Candlestick to slow Maury Wills down
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11 Aug 1962 Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
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11 Aug 1962 Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3
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11 Aug 1962 Beach Boys release "Surfin' Safari"
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11 Aug 1963 The Kingston Trio are the mystery guest on "What's My Line?"
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11 Aug 1964 Race riot in Paterson, New Jersey
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11 Aug 1964 Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" opens in NYC
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11 Aug 1965 Beatles movie "Help" opens in New York City
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11 Aug 1965 Watts riots begin in Southeast LA, lasts 6 days
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11 Aug 1965 Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
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11 Aug 1965 6 day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles
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11 Aug 1965 Beatles movie "Help" opens in NYC
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11 Aug 1966 Last Beatle concert tour of the US begins
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11 Aug 1967 Al Downing becomes 12th to strike-out side on 9 pitches
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11 Aug 1968 Beatles launch "Apple Records" label
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11 Aug 1968 Satchel Paige, 62, and needing 158 days on a major league payroll to qualify for a pension, is signed by Braves
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11 Aug 1968 The last steam hauled train runs on British Rail
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11 Aug 1968 The Beatles launch the "Apple Records" label
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11 Aug 1969 Don Drysdale retires because of damage to his right shoulder
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11 Aug 1969 Pitts Steelers beat the New York Giants 17-13 in Montreal (NFL expo)
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11 Aug 1970 Jim Bunning becomes 2nd (Cy Young) to win 100 games in both leagues
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11 Aug 1970 Tony Perez becomes the 1st to hit a HR in the red seats at Riverfront
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11 Aug 1971 Construction begins on the Louisiana Superdome
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11 Aug 1971 Harmon Killebrew hits HRs #500 & 501
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11 Aug 1972 "Cheech & Chong Day" in San Antonio, Texas
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11 Aug 1972 Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
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11 Aug 1972 "Cheech & Chong Day" in San Antonio Texas
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11 Aug 1974 56th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 276 at Tanglewood, North Carolina
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11 Aug 1974 Coup in East-Timor under UDT
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11 Aug 1974 Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey)
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11 Aug 1974 Lee Trevino wins PGA championship
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11 Aug 1975 East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
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11 Aug 1975 Expos' Jose Mangual struck out 5 times in a game
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11 Aug 1975 US vetoes proposed admission of North & South Vietnam to UN
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11 Aug 1976 Race riot in Cape Town, South Africa; 17 die
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11 Aug 1976 Keith Moon, drummer for the Who, collapses & is hospitalized in Miami
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11 Aug 1977 Geoff Boycott scores his 100th FC hundred, vs. Aust at Headingley
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11 Aug 1978 Funeral of Pope Paul VI
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11 Aug 1979 Phillies Tug McGraw gives up record 4th grand slam of year
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11 Aug 1979 Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners.
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11 Aug 1980 Angola revises its constitution
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11 Aug 1980 Mohammed Ali Radjai appointed Premier of Iran
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11 Aug 1980 Reggie Jackson hits his 400th homer
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11 Aug 1982 Twins Terry Felton loses and runs career to 0-14 (en route to 0-16)
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11 Aug 1982 A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one teenager and injuring 15 passengers.
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11 Aug 1984 During a radio voice test President Reagan joked he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes"
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11 Aug 1984 "We begin bombing in five minutes" – United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.
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11 Aug 1984 Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat, wins 4 Olym track golds
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11 Aug 1984 Cincinatti Reds retire Johnny Bench's #5 uniform
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11 Aug 1985 "Tap Dance Kid" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 669 performances
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11 Aug 1985 67th PGA Championship: Hubert Green shoots 278 at Cherry Hills Denver
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11 Aug 1985 Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona
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11 Aug 1985 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
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11 Aug 1985 Hubert Green wins PGA championship
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11 Aug 1985 Oakland A's Dave Kingman becomes the 21st to hit 400 HR
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11 Aug 1985 Rudolf Povarnitsin of USSR sets new high jump world record (7'10"12)
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11 Aug 1986 68th PGA Championship: Bob Tway shoots a 276 at Inverness Club Toledo
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11 Aug 1986 Bob Tway wins PGA championship
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11 Aug 1987 France and Great-Britain send minesweepers to Persian Gulf
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11 Aug 1988 225 at bats after #299, Met Gary Carter is 59th to hit 300th HR
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11 Aug 1988 Charlotte Colisieum in Charlotte NC opens
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11 Aug 1988 Gary Carter (NY Mets) became 59th player to hit 300 career HR
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11 Aug 1988 Meir Kahane renounced US citizenship to stay in Israeli Parliament
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11 Aug 1989 "Nightmare on Elm Street 5: Dream Child" premieres
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11 Aug 1989 Geoff Marsh and Mark Taylor complete 329 opening stand vs. England
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11 Aug 1989 "Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child" premiers
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11 Aug 1989 Voyager 2 discovers 2 partial rings of Neptune
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11 Aug 1990 New York Yankee Kevin Maas is fastest to get 13 HRs (110 at bats)
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11 Aug 1990 Egypt & Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion
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11 Aug 1991 400,000 demonstrate for democracy in Madagascar, 31 killed
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11 Aug 1991 73rd PGA Championship: John Daly shoots a 276 at Crooked Stick, Indiana
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11 Aug 1991 Melissa Mcnamara wins Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic
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11 Aug 1991 Wilson Alvarez hurls a no-hitter in his 1st big league start
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11 Aug 1991 John Daly, rookie golfer wins the PGA title
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11 Aug 1991 Shite Muslims release US hostage Edward Tracy
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11 Aug 1991 Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) lands
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11 Aug 1992 Oakland Athletics rip Jose Canseco for leaving stadium before end of game
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11 Aug 1993 Director Oliver Stone files for divorce from Elizabeth
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11 Aug 1993 New York Islander Brian Mullen, 31, suffers a mild stroke
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11 Aug 1993 Pope John Paul II visits Mexico
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11 Aug 1993 Red Sox Roger Clemens pitches 2,000th strike out (Danny Tartabul-NY)
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11 Aug 1994 Joao B "Nino" Vieira elected President of Guinee-Bissau
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11 Aug 1996 "Thousand Clowns, " closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 32 performs
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11 Aug 1996 78th PGA Championship: Mark Brooks shoots a 277 at Vallhalla Golf Club - Kentucky
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11 Aug 1997 Benin legalizes Jan 10th as a voodoo holiday
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11 Aug 1999 The Salt Lake City Tornado tears through the downtown district of the city, killing one.
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11 Aug 2003 NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
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11 Aug 2003 Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
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11 Aug 2006 The oil tanker M/T Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill.
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11 Aug 2012 At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.
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11 Aug 2492 Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation.
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11 Aug 3114 The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Mayans, begins.
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