3114 BC August 11, 3114 BBCE is the widely accepted date as the starting point of the Maya/Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar as it corresponds to the Julian Calendar
Battle of the Frigidus
394 Battle of the Frigidus (Frigid River) in Northern Italy is fought in high winds. Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats Western Emperor Eugenius, who is captured and beheaded.
Battle at Nördlingen
1634 Battle of Nördlingen: Imperial-Spanish forces led by Ferdinand of Hungary and Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand heavily defeat a combined Swedish and German Protestant army led by Gustav Horn and Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar
The Royal Oak
1651 King Charles II of England spends a day hiding in an oak tree during his escape after losing the Battle of Worcester
1666 After St. Paul’s Cathedral and much of the city burned down over four days, the Great Fire of London is finally extinguished
- 1669 Siege of Candia on Crete ends with the Venetian fortress surrendering to the Ottomans, the second-longest siege in history (began 1648)
- 1672 William of Orange’s troops reconquer Naarden from France
- 1675 Swedish Admiral Stenbock sails out with a fleet of 66 ships
- 1683 Le Plecta is appointed French Minister of Finance
- 1688 Austrian armies occupy Belgrade
- 1690 King Wiliam III escapes back to England
- 1716 First lighthouse is built in North America (Boston)
- 1732 VOC dismisses Dutch East Indies Governor-General Diederik Durven
- 1776 David Bushnell’s “Turtle” attacks British ship “Eagle” in New York Bay in the first (failed) submarine attack
- 1776 Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, killing more than 6,000
- 1776 Hurricane hits Martinique; 100 French and Dutch ships sink and 600 people die
- 1781 The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting in a British victory
1839 Cherokee Nation unites and ratifies constitution at Tahlequah, Oklahoma
- 1839 Great fire in New York
- 1848 National Black Convention meets in Cleveland
- 1863 After a 59-day siege, Confederate troops vacate Fort Wagner, SC, resulting in 1,700 casualties
- 1869 First westbound train arrives in San Francisco
- 1869 Mine fire kills 110 at Avondale, Pennsylvania
- 1870 Ship sinks in Bay of Biscay, killing 483
- 1873 Regular cable car service begins on Clay Street, San Francisco
- 1876 Race riot in Charleston, South Carolina
- 1876 Southern Pacific railroad line from Los Angeles to San Francisco is completed in California
Debut of W. G. Grace
1880 First Test cricket game in England begins with W. G. Grace scoring 152 on debut against Australia at The Oval
- 1883 Chicago White Stockings beat Detroit Wolverines 26-6 at Lake Front Park, Chicago, setting an MLB record with 18 runs in the 7th inning
- 1883 Cubs’ Burns (extra bases), Williamson, and Pfeiffer get three hits in one inning
- 1885 Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria, accomplishing the Unification of Bulgaria
Distinguished Service Order
1886 Queen Victoria establishes the Distinguished Service Order
- 1888 Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season
- 1888 Queen Victoria grants William Mackinnon’s Imperial British East Africa Company political and commercial rights
- 1889 King Kabaka Mwanga of Buganda abdicates
- 1899 Carnation processes its first can of evaporated milk
- 1900 British General Buller occupies Lydenburg, South Africa
Assassination of William McKinley
1901 US President William McKinley is shot and assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz while visiting the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York
- 1905 Atlanta Life Insurance Company is formed
- 1905 Chicago White Sox pitcher Frank Smith no-hits the Detroit Tigers, 15-0
- 1905 General Trade Journal publishes the first Dutch photo of a train accident
Peary 1st to North Pole?
1909 New York Times headline announces American explorer Robert Peary discovered the North Pole 5 months earlier (now thought unlikely)
1914 World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins as French and British forces prevent the German advance on Paris
- 1917 French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down his 54th German aircraft
Dempsey KOs Miske
1920 Jack Dempsey knocks out Billy Miske in the third round for the heavyweight boxing title in the first radio broadcast of a prizefight
- 1924 Charles Paddock wins the 100 and 200 yards at the AAU national senior outdoor track and field championships
- 1930 Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 22-8
Yrigoyen Deposed in Coup
1930 Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup
- 1930 Third Women’s World Games (track and field competition for women) take place over three days at the Letná Stadium in Prague, Czechoslovakia
Steamboat Round the Bend
1935 “Steamboat Round the Bend,” a film directed by John Ford and starring Will Rogers, is released weeks after Rogers’ death
- 1937 Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco
- 1938 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands celebrates her 40th anniversary
- 1939 First German air attack on Great Britain in WW II
- 1939 South Africa declares war on Nazi Germany
- 1939 World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek
- 1940 Crown Prince Michael succeeds Carol II as King of Romania
- 1940 Former French Commander-in-Chief Army General Maurice Gamelin and other military leaders are arrested for their malfeasance [1]
- 1941 All Jews over age 6 in German territories are ordered to wear a star
- 1941 Great and Small Vilnius Jewish Ghettos established in Vilna, Lithuania, under Nazi occupation
- 1942 Czech marathon runner Oskar Hêks is transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau
- 1943 “Congressional Limited” train derails near Frankford, Philadelphia, killing 79
- 1943 Carl Scheib becomes the youngest pitcher in American League history at 16 years and 8 months
- 1944 Gen. von Zangen’s 15th Army escapes from Zeeland
- 1945 A’s catcher Greek George punches umpire Joe Rue and gets suspended
- 1946 All-America Football Conference begins regular season play as the Cleveland Browns beat the Miami Seahawks 44-0 before 60,135 at Cleveland’s Municipal Stadium
Queen Juliana
1948 Juliana is crowned Queen of The Netherlands
Konrad Adenauer Re-elected
1953 Konrad Adenauer is re-elected as German Chancellor for a second term, and his party, the CDU, is one seat short of a majority in the German Federal Republic
- 1954 Alan Freed leaves Cleveland for NYC to join WINS radio
- 1954 US plane is shot down above Siberia
- 1954 Yankees use a record 10 pinch hitters
- 1955 J. van Tilburg is appointed governor of Suriname
- 1958 The US performs a nuclear test over the South Atlantic Ocean, the third and final part of Operation Argus to study the Christofilos effect, a theoretical defensive shield to cloud Soviet radar
- 1960 American Otis Davis runs a world record 44.9 to win the gold medal in the 400 m at the Rome Olympics; German Carl Kaufmann records the same time but is ruled second via photo finish
- 1960 Australian middle distance runner Herb Elliott breaks his own world record by winning the 1500 m in 3:35.6 at the Rome Olympics
- 1960 In a famous victory, American decathlete Rafer Johnson scores an Olympic record of 8,392 points to win the gold medal in Rome, beating his rival and friend C. K. Yang of China by 58 points
- 1961 USSR performs a nuclear test at Kapustin Yar, USSR
- 1962 US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1963 Historian Lee Allen says the Cleveland Indians-Washington Senators game is the 100,000th in Major League Baseball history
Lewis Signs with Smash Records
1963 Rocker Jerry Lee Lewis leaves Sun Records as his contract expires and signs with Smash Records
- 1963 The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded at the University of Strasbourg, France
- 1965 India invades West Pakistan, beginning the Indo-Pakistani War
- 1965 KLNE TV channel 3 in Lexington, NE (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1966 Race riot in Atlanta, Georgia
- 1968 American rock band “The Doors” open their first European tour with four sold-out shows over two days at London’s 2,500-seat Roundhouse
- 1968 Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day)
- 1970 Palestinians seize three airliners
- 1970 USSR performs a nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeastern Kazakhstan
Northern Ireland Discussion
1971 British Prime Minister Edward Heath meets with Irish Prime Minister/Taoiseach Jack Lynch at Chequers in England to discuss the situation in Northern Ireland
Third Force for Ulster
1971 William Craig and Ian Paisley speak at a rally in Belfast before a crowd of approximately 20,000 people and call for the establishment of a “third force” to defend Ulster
- 1972 Summer Olympics resume in Munich, Germany, after the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes by the Black September Palestinian terrorist organization
- 1973 The New York Times reports that almost all Superfectas run at Yonkers, Roosevelt, and Monticello from January to March of 1973 were fixed
- 1974 Saudi Arabia increases its oil buy-back price from 93 percent to 94.9 percent of the posted price
- 1975 6.8-magnitude earthquake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice, Turkey
- 1975 US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1976 “The Robert MacNeil Report” becomes “The MacNeil-Lehrer Report” (currently known as “PBS NewsHour”) on PBS
- 1976 Russian pilot Belenko defects to Japan in a MiG-25 jet
Sinatra and Martin Share the Stage
1976 Singer Frank Sinatra brings surprise guest Dean Martin to his appearance on Jerry Lewis‘s 11th Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon, the first time Martin and Lewis share a stage in 20 years
- 1977 Angels acquire Dave Kingman from Padres for cash, 9 days later Yankees buy Kingman (started with Mets) who plays in all 4 divisions in 1977
- 1978 USSR performs an underground nuclear test
- 1980 French runner Chantal Langlacé sets the women’s 100 km world record in 7:27.22 in Amiens, France
- 1980 Macalester University of St. Paul, Minnesota, beats Mount Senario 17-14
- 1980 US College football longest losing streak of 50 games ends for Macalester College (St. Paul)
- 1981 Robert Granville “Bob” Lemon is named NY Yankees manager for the second time
- 1982 Dutch Internal Minister Mr. M. Red assigns BVD to spy on communists
- 1982 Jerry Lewis‘s 17th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $28,400,000
Tug of War
1982 Parlophone/EMI releases Paul McCartney‘s single “Tug of War” from the album of the same name
- 1982 Polish dissidents seize Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland
- 1983 Soviet Union admits to shooting down the South Korean airliner KAL 007 on September 1
Amadeus
1984 “Amadeus,” from the play by Peter Shaffer, directed by Milos Forman and starring Tom Hulce, premieres in Los Angeles (Academy Award for Best Picture 1985)
- 1984 Lanford Wilson’s “Balm in Gilead” premieres in New York City
- 1984 Today Show begins live remote broadcasts from Moscow
- 1985 Mark Messier loses control of his Porsche and totals three cars; he is charged with hit-and-run and careless driving and is ordered to pay a fine
- 1985 Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9, crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31
- 1986 300 invitees pay $5,000 to hear Barbra Streisand‘s benefit concert
- 1986 Attack on synagogue in Istanbul kills 23
- 1986 Jozef Pribilinec sets a speed walking world record time (15,447 km)
- 1986 Michael Spinks TKO’s Steffen Tangstad in the 4th round for the heavyweight boxing title
- 1986 USSR charges correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying
- 1987 Conjoined twins Benjamin and Patrick Binder are separated at Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 1987 Douglas Wakiihuri wins a marathon in 2:11.48
- 1987 Saskatchewan’s Dave Ridgway kicks a CFL-record 60-yard field goal
- 1988 Crippled Soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with two cosmonauts aboard
- 1988 Tom Gregory (11) becomes the youngest person to swim the English Channel [1]
- 1988 USSR performs an underground nuclear test
- 1989 Amateur Athletic Federation strips Ben Johnson of all track records
- 1989 Due to an error in the police computer system, 41,000 Parisians are mailed legal notices accusing them of manslaughter and prostitution
- 1990 A US citizen is shot in Kuwait, and oil markets surge due to aggressive US statements toward Iraq
- 1991 Ronald Venetiaan is chosen as president of Suriname
- 1991 The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia’s second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924
- 1991 USSR recognizes the independence of the three Baltic republics (Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania)
- 1992 Noureddine Morceli runs a world record in the 1500 m (3:28.86)
- 1993 Jerry Lewis‘s 28th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $46,014,922
Actor Blinded
1994 Actor Jackson Pinckney is awarded $487,000 for being partially blinded by Jean-Claude Van Damme during the filming of “Cyborg”
- 1994 Franziska van Almsick swims a women’s world record in the 200 m freestyle (1:56.78)
Ripken Jr. Breaks Record
1995 Cal Ripken Jr. plays 2,131 consecutive games, breaking Gehrig’s record
Packwood Expulsion Vote
1995 US Senate Ethics Committee votes 6-0 to recommend the expulsion of Senator Bob Packwood over allegations of sexual abuse
New Moon
2006 “New Moon,” the second book in Stephenie Meyer‘s “Twilight Saga,” is published by Little, Brown and ends up selling 5.3 million copies
Obama Accepts Nomination
2012 Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for US President
- 2013 Islamist militants kill 20 people in villages in northeastern Nigeria
- 2015 German police confirm more than 13,000 refugees have arrived in southern Germany in the last two days, fleeing conflicts in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan
- 2016 Minnesota man Danny Heinrich admits to kidnapping and murdering 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling on October 22, 1989
2017 Hurricane Irma makes landfall on the Caribbean islands of Barbuda, Sint Maarten, and the British Virgin Islands. Prime Minister Gaston Browne reports 95% of buildings in Barbuda are damaged
Bolsonaro Stabbed
2018 Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro is stabbed at a campaign rally in Juiz de Fora, Brazil
- 2018 India’s Supreme Court legalizes gay sex, overturning a colonial-era law
- 2018 New York and New Jersey state attorneys launch investigations into sexual abuse by the Catholic clergy, bringing to six the number of states investigating
- 2018 Remains of 166 people, 2 years old, are found in a mass grave in Veracruz state, Mexico
- 2018 World Surf League announces that from 2019 there will be equal prize money for men and women across elite tour events, becoming the first US-based global sports league with gender pay parity
- 2019 Sri Lankan cricket fast bowler Lasith Malinga takes 4 wickets in 4 balls and finishes with 5 for 6 as New Zealand is all out for 88 in a 37-run defeat in the 3rd T-20 International in Pallekele
Anti-Lukashenko Protests
2020 100,000 people demonstrate in Minsk against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko amid month-long protests against his re-election
- 2020 Los Angeles County records its highest-ever temperature of 121°F (49.4°C)
- 2020 Premier Daniel Andrews announces a roadmap out of restrictions for the Australian state of Victoria but extends the lockdown until September 28
- 2020 Strain of bacteria nicknamed “Conan the Bacterium” survives three years attached to the International Space Station in open space
- 2022 Fire in a karaoke bar near Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, kills at least 32 [1]
- 2023 Africa’s first climate summit opens in Nairobi, Kenya, calling for greater climate-related financing from industrialized countries [1]
- 2023 American rocker Bruce Springsteen (73) postpones the remaining eight shows of his summer tour under doctor’s advice to treat peptic ulcer disease
- 2023 Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi calls for a major reduction in the country’s birth rate to avoid a catastrophe, from more than two million to 400,000 a year [1]
- 2023 Mexico’s Supreme Court decriminalizes abortion nationwide, building on an earlier state-by-state ruling [1]
- 2023 Russian daytime missile attack on a Ukrainian market in Kostyantynivka kills 17 civilians [1]
- 2023 US sanctions Abdelrahim Hamdan Dagalo, Rapid Support Forces leader, for acts of violence, and human rights abuses, including the massacre of civilians in Darfur [1]
- 2024 Philadelphia Eagles win 34-29 over Green Bay Packers at Corinthians Arena in São Paulo, Brazil, in the first NFL football game in the Southern Hemisphere
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