December 11
December 11 is the 345th day (346th in leap years) of the year in the
Gregorian calendar. There are 20 days remaining.
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Events
\n*1205 - John Grey, Bishop of Norwich, elected Archbishop of Canterbury\n*1792 - King Louis XVI of France goes on trial for treason\n*1816 - Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.\n*1816 - Citizens of Geneva, Switzerland repel attack by Savoy\n*1901 - Guglielmo Marconi sends the first trans-Atlantic radio signal, from Cornwall to Newfoundland\n*1917 - Lithuania declares its independence (Kingdom of Lithuania)\n*1931 - Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland and Newfoundland\n*1937 - Edward VIII's abdication as King of the United Kingdom becomes effective.\n*1937 - Italy leaves the League of Nations\n*1941 - Germany and Italy declare war on the United States\n*1946 - The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established.\n*1958 - Upper Volta declares its independence from France\n*1971 - The United States Libertarian Party is formed.\n*1972 - Apollo 17 lands on the Moon\n*1981 - Muhammad Ali's last fight – he loses to Trevor Berbick\n** - Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru becomes UN Secretary-General\n** - The Salvadoran armed forces massacre 900 villagers in the El Mozote massacre \n*1994 - Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya\n*1994 - A small bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, killing a Japanese businessman. The bombing was a field test done by Ramzi Yousef to test explosives that would have been used in Project Bojinka, a terrorist attack plan that would be exposed after an apartment fire.\n*1998 - A Thai Airways Airbus A310-200 crashes just short of runway at Surat Thani airport, located in southern Thailand, killing 101.\n*2001 - DrinkOrDie raids.\n*2001 - The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization
Births
\n*1475 - Pope Leo X (d. 1521)\n*1725 - George Mason, U.S. patriot, "Father of the Bill of Rights" (d. 1792)\n*1781 - Sir David Brewster, physicist (d. 1868)\n*1801 - Christian Dietrich Grabbe, writer (d. 1836)\n*1803 - Hector Berlioz, composer (d. 1869)\n*1810 - Alfred de Musset, poet (d. 1857)\n*1843 - Robert Koch, bacteriologist and 1905 Nobel laureate (d. 1910)\n*1873 - Josip Plemelj, mathematician (d. 1967)\n*1882 - Max Born, physicist and 1954 Nobel laureate (d. 1970)\n*1882 - Fiorello LaGuardia, mayor of New York City (d. 1947)\n*1882 - Subramanya Bharathy, a Tamil Indian poet (d. 1921)\n*1883 - Victor McLaglen, actor (d. 1959)\n*1890 - Mark Tobey, painter (d. 1976)\n*1905 - Gilbert Roland, actor (d. 1994)\n*1911 - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian novelist, 1988 Nobel laureate\n*1913 - Jean Marais, actor (d. 1998)\n*1913 - Carlo Ponti, director\n*1918 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian author, 1970 Nobel laureate\n*1919 - Marie Windsor, actress (d. 2000)\n*1920 - Big Mama Thornton, singer (d. 1984)\n*1924 - Doc Blanchard, Heisman Trophy winner\n*1930 - Jean-Louis Trintignant, actor\n*1931 - Rita Moreno, singer, dancer, actress\n*1935 - Pranab Mukherjee, Indian politician\n*1939 - Tom Hayden, American radical and politician\n*1943 - John Kerry, US politician\n*1944 - Booker T. Jones, musician\n*1944 - Brenda Lee, singer\n*1950 - Christina Onassis shipowner (d. 1988)\n*1954 - Jermaine Jackson, musician\n*1958 - Nikki Sixx, musician
Deaths
\n*384 - St. Damasus, Pope\n*1282 - Llywelyn the Last, Prince of Wales\n*1920 - Olive Schreiner, writer (b. 1855)\n*1945 - Charles Fabry, physicist\n*1950 - Leslie Comrie, astronomer and computing pioneer (b. 1893)\n*1964 - Sam Cooke (b. 1931)\n*1996 - Willie Rushton, UK comedian, satirist, actor and cartoonist (b. 1937)
Holidays and observances
\nAnnual Events
\n*Tango Day, Buenos Aires
December 10 -
December 12 -
November 11 -
January 11 --
listing of all days
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