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August 11 is the 223rd day of the year (224th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 142 days remaining. gustCalendar }}
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- 3114 BC - beginning of our current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar
- 480 BC - Persians under Xerxes defeat Spartans under King Leonidas in the Battle of Thermopylae. The Spartans fought to the last man.
- 480 BC - The Persian and Greek fleets also fight the indecisive Battle of Artemisium.
- 1858 - First ascent of the Eiger.
- 1918 - Great War - Battle of AmiensThe Battle of Amiens which began on 8 August, 1918, was the opening phase of the Allied offensive, later known as the Hundred Days, that led ultimately to the end of World War I. The Australian and Canadian divisions that spearheaded the attack managed to ends
- 1919Events January January 1 Edsel Ford succeeds his father as head of the Ford Motor Company January 5 Spartacist uprising Socialist demonstrations in Berlin turn into attempted communist revolution with Spartacist League in the forefront January 9 Spartacus - Constitution of Weimar RepublicThe period of German history from 1919 to 1933 is known as the Weimar Republic (in German Weimarer Republik ). It is named after the city of Weimar, where a national assembly convened to produce a new constitution after Germany's defeat in World War I. adopted
- 1934Events January-April January 1 Alcatraz becomes a federal prison. January 7 First Flash Gordon comic strip is published. January 10 Execution of Marinus van der Lubbe January 24 Einstein visits White House January 26 The Apollo Theater opens in Harlem, Ne - Federal prison opened at Alcatraz Island
- 19431943 is the common year starting on Friday. Events January January 4 End of term for Culbert Olson, 29th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Earl Warren. January 11 The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China. January 1 - World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough - First Quebec Conference of Winston ChurchillChurchill" redirects here. For other meanings, see Churchill (disambiguation). The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill KG, OM, CH, FRS ( November 30, 1874 January 24, 1965) was a British politician, best known as Prime Minister of the U, Franklin Roosevelt, T. V. Soong and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
- 1948 - Olympic games open in London
- 1951 - René Pleven becomes Prime Minister of France
- 1952 - Hussein proclaimed king of Jordan
- 1960 - Chad declares independence
- 1965 - Race riots begin in Watts area of Los Angeles, California
- 1966 - John Lennon held a press conference in Chicago excusing himself from the "Jesus affair"
- 1970 - A trademark application by the Van Brode Milling Company for the word Spork was published by the USPTO.
- 1972 - Last United States ground combat unit departs South Vietnam
- 1999 - A total solar eclipse visible from Europe and Asia
- 2003 - NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
- 2003 - Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
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