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On this day - August 11

The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian ...

Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder ...

106 — The south-western part of Dacia (modern Romania) becomes a ...

117 — Hadrian is proclaimed Roman emperor, two days after ...

355 — Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman ...

490 — Battle of Adda: The Goths under Theodoric the Great and his ...

923 — The Qarmatians of Bahrayn capture and pillage the city of Basra.

1315 — The Great Famine of Europe becomes so dire that even the king ...

1332 — Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Dupplin Moor: Scots ...

1473 — The Battle of Otlukbeli: Mehmed the Conqueror of the Ottoman ...

1492 — Rodrigo de Borja is elected as Head of the Catholic Church, ...

1675 — Franco-Dutch War: Forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the ...

1685 — Morean War: The 49-day Siege of Coron ends with the surrender ...

1786 — Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang ...

1804 — Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria.

1812 — Peninsular War: French troops engage British-Portuguese forces ...

1813 — In Colombia, Juan del Corral declares the independence of ...

1858 — The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time ...

1871 — An explosion of guncotton occurs in Stowmarket, England, ...

1898 — Spanish–American War: American troops enter the city of ...

1918 — World War I: The Battle of Amiens ends.

1919 — Germany's Weimar Constitution is signed into law.

1920 — The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished ...

1920 — The 1920 Cork hunger strike begins which eventually results in ...

1929 — Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home ...

1934 — The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on ...

1942 — Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a ...

1945 — Poles in Kraków engage in a pogrom against Jews in the city, ...

1952 — Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.

1959 — Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport ...

1960 — Chad declares independence from France.

1961 — The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar ...

1962 — Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut ...

1965 — Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los ...

1969 — The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week ...

1972 — Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves ...

1973 — At the 1520 Sedgwick Avenue apartment building in The Bronx, ...

1975 — East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor ...

1979 — Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city ...

1982 — A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, ...

1984 — "We begin bombing in five minutes": United States ...

1988 — A meeting between Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif, Osama bin Laden, ...

1991 — Nickelodeon's first line of "Nicktoons" (Doug, ...

1992 — The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota opens. At the ...

1995 — The Russell Hill subway accident in Toronto kills 3 and ...

2000 — An air rage incident occurs on board Southwest Airlines Flight ...

2003 — Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as ...

2003 — NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in ...

2006 — The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and ...

2012 — At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a ...

2017 — At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after ...

2023 — Luna 25 launches from the Vostochny Cosmodrome.