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- 0070 The Second Temple is destroyed by the Roman army in Jerusalem.
- 0355 Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius II.
- 0480 BC - Greco-Persian Wars: Battle of Artemisium - The Persians achieve a naval victory over the Greeks in an engagement fought near Artemisium, a promontory on the north coast of Euboea. The Greek fleet holds its own against the Persians in three days of fighting but withdraws southward when news comes of the defeat at Thermopylae.
- 0586 BC - The First Temple (originally built by King Solomon) is destroyed by the Babylonians in Jerusalem.
- 1106 Henry IV escapes his captors at Ingelheim, enters into negotiations at Cologne with English, French, and Danish supporters, begins to collect an army to oppose his treacherous son, but dies August 7 at age 54
- 1259 Mongke Khan, the Khagan of the Mongols, dies while conducting the siege against Fishing Town in Chongqing, China, then under the control of the Song Dynasty. International historical sources note three differing accounts of his death; one states he died of an arrow wound received from a Chinese archer during the siege; one states he was killed by dysentery; another states he was killed by a sudden cholera epidemic. Whatever the cause, his death sparks a succession crisis in the Mongol Empire between his brothers Kublai Khan and Ariq Bke.
- 1492 Alexander VI is elected Pope.
- 1711 The first race meeting was held at Ascot
- 1772 Explosive eruption blows 4,000' off Papandayan Java, kills 3,000
- 1786 Captain Francis Light established the British colony of Penang in Malaysia
- 1804 Francis II assumed title of first Emperor of Austria
- 1824 New South Wales is constituted a Crown colony.
- 1828 William Corder is hanged at Bury St. Edmunds, England, for the murder of Maria Marten at the Red Barn a year ago.
- 1835 George B Airy begins 46-year reign as England's Astronomer Royal
- 1858 First ascent of the Eiger.
- 1860 Nation's first successful silver mill (Virginia City, Nev)
- 1863 French protectorate over Cambodia is established.
- 1877 Asaph Hall discovers Mars's moon Deimos
- 1909 SOS first used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC
- 1918 Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allieds beat Germans
- 1918 World War I - Battle of Amiens ends
- 1919 Constitution of Weimar Republic adopted
- 1919 The 12-time NFL champion Green Bay Packers were formed by Curly Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun.
- 1920 The Latvia-Bolshevist Russia peace treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed.
- 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.
- 1933 Temp reaches 136 degrees F (58ø C) at San Luis Potos¡, Mex (world record)
- 1934 Federal prison opened at Alcatraz Island.
- 1934 First federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in SF Bay
- 1943 Flying Officer Lloyd Allan Trigg, 200 Squadron, RAF, won the Victoria Cross over the North Sea
- 1944 An electric powered rescue hoist was installed on an HNS-1 helicopter at CGAS Floyd Bennett Field.
- 1945 Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito
- 1948 Summer Olympics opens in London
- 1952 Hussein proclaimed king of Jordan
- 1954 Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ yrs of fighting in Indochina between French and Communist Vietminh
- 1956 Elvis Presley releases "Don't Be Cruel"
- 1960 Chad declares independence
- 1960 In the first recovery of an object after it had been in orbit, a Navy HRS-3 helicopter, operating from the Haiti Victory of the Pacific Missile Range, recovered the instrumented capsule discharged by Discoverer XIII
- 1960 Visitor posting - Will Amos was born
- 1960 Visitor posting - alice born - USA
- 1962 Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3
- 1962 Beach Boys release "Surfin' Safari"
- 1964 Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" opens in NYC
- 1964 Race riot in Paterson NJ
- 1965 6 day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles
- 1965 Beatles movie "Help" opens in NYC
- 1965 Race riots (the Watts riots) begin in Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
- 1966 Last Beatle concert tour of the US begins
- 1968 The last steam passenger train service ran in Britain. A British Rail steam locomotive made the 314-mile journey from Liverpool to Carlisle and returned to Liverpool before being dispatched to the Wrecking yard.
- 1970 A trademark application by the Van Brode Milling Company for the word Spork was published by the USPTO.
- 1971 Visitor posting - Jonelle Abbott was born! - USA
- 1972 Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit depart South Vietnam.
- 1972 Visitor posting - Darryl Cousins was born - United Kingdom
- 1974 Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey)
- 1974 Visitor posting - August 11 1974 Jennifer Leigh Hanley was born in Waterbury, Ct.
- 1975 East Timor: Governor Mrio 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.
- 1975 US vetoes proposed admission of North and South Vietnam to UN
- 1976 Keith Moon, drummer for the Who, collapses and is hospitalized in Miami
- 1977 The first CH-46E Sea Knight with newly developed fiberglass rotor blades was flown by Marine Corps helicopter pilots
- 1978 Funeral of Pope Paul VI
- 1978 Visitor posting - Aug 11 1978 Matt Huson of Fayetteville Arkansas was born
- 1981 Visitor posting - My name is Omit........ - Bangladesh [email protected]
- 1984 Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat, wins 4 Olym track golds
- 1984 During a radio voice test Pres Reagan joked he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes"
- 1985 Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz
- 1985 Visitor posting - Candice Irwin was born - Canada
- 1987 Alan Greenspan becomes Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve.
- 1988 Meir Kahane renounced US citizenship to stay in Israeli Parliament
- 1989 "Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child" premiers
- 1989 Visitor posting - August 11 1989 Baby Jimmy was Born
- 1989 Visitor posting - Jazmine Janeal DeHart was born in Union, SC!!! - USA
- 1989 Voyager 2 discovers 2 partial rings of Neptune
- 1990 Egypt and Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion
- 1990 Visitor posting - Deanna Perez the Bestest Sister Ever Was Born!!! wooo! Ur lil sis <3z U!!! - United States
- 1990 Visitor posting - Tara G was born!!
- 1992 The Mall of America, the biggest shopping mall in the country, opened in Bloomington, Minnesota.
- 1992 Visitor posting - Kaleb Todd Penland was born. - USA
- 1994 History was made on August 11, 1994, when the first retail transaction on the Internet was carried out using a readily available version of powerful data encryption software designed to guarantee privacy.
- 1995 Visitor posting - Aaron Young was born!
- 1995 Visitor posting - Cal Bond was born - USA
- 1999 A total solar eclipse visible from Europe and Asia.
- 1999 The exceptional Salt Lake City Tornado tears through the downtown district of the city, killing one.
- 2000 On August 11, 2000, passenger Jonathan Burton broke through the cockpit door aboard Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 while en route from Las Vegas to Salt Lake City. In their own defense, the other passengers restrained Burton who later died of the resulting injuries. "Unfriendly Skies", A CSI episode reflecting similar plot elements, aired on December 8, 2000.
- 2002 Visitor posting - Rhiannon Cousins was born - United Kingdom
- 2003 A big heat wave in Paris had temperatures up to 112F (44 C), with about 144 people dead.
- 2003 Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
- 2003 NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
- 2006 The largest string of firecrackers ever assembled is ignited in Buchanan, Wisconsin. It contains an estimated 10,500,000 firecrackers.
- 2006 The last software patent expired on the GIF format.
- 2009 A German court sentences former Nazi army commander Josef Scheungraber to life in prison for his role in the murder of 10 Italians in Tuscany in 1944.
- 2009 A Russian woman is arrested after throwing a teacup at the Mona Lisa portrait in the Louvre, Paris.
- 2009 A court in Burma finds Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of violating the terms of her detention, and sentences her to a further 18 months house arrest.
- 2009 A court ruling in Pretoria bars President Jacob Zuma from appointing a successor to axed prosecutions chief Vusi Pikoli.
- 2009 A passenger plane carrying 13 people, including nine Australians, en route to Kokoda, site of a hiking trail and famous World War II battle, is reported missing over Papua New Guinea.
- 2009 A pilot flying from England to Ireland is airlifted to safety after his two-man aircraft crashes into the Irish Sea near Tuskar Rock.
- 2009 Argentina’s Cabinet Chief Aníbal Fernández comments on the suspension of the debt-ridden Primera División by saying that football transmission should be free because it is not only a national passion but an industry that generates many jobs and activity.
- 2009 Former Cuban President Fidel Castro calls Colombia "disloyal", saying the pending military deal with the United States could be used to attack other Latin American countries.
- 2009 Kuwait foils an al Qaeda-linked plan to bomb a United States army camp and other "important facilities" in the country.
- 2009 Nepenthes attenboroughii, a new species of giant carnivorous plant, is discovered in the highlands of the central Philippines.
- 2009 Nine corpses are recovered from a Handlová coal mine following a fire and explosion in Slovakia. (Irish Independent) The government meets in emergency session and declares a day of mourning.
- 2009 Police in Pakistan register a criminal case with former President Pervez Musharraf over the latter's decision to detain judges in 2007.
- 2009 President of Costa Rica, Óscar Arias Sánchez is diagnosed with Influenza AH1N1 but his condition is stable, according to official reports.
- 2009 Rescue operations continue in southern China and Taiwan in the aftermath of Typhoon Morakot.
- 2009 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev delays sending a new ambassador to Ukraine after criticising its "anti-Russian" stance.
- 2009 Swedish Princess Madeleine announces her engagement to lawyer and longterm boyfriend Jonas Bergström, becoming the second royal in Sweden to announce her engagment after Crown Princess Victoria.
- 2009 The NASA Spitzer Space Telescope finds evidence of a high-speed collision between two burgeoning planets orbiting a young star.
- 2009 Thousands of people worship a baby born with four arms and four legs in Ramechhap, Nepal, revering him as the reincarnation of Ganesh.
- 2009 Two Kenyans, two French, a Bulgarian and a Belgian held captive since November 2008 are freed by their Somali kidnappers.
- 2009 Two members of the Russian humanitarian organisation Let's Save the Generation are found dead in Grozny, Chechnya.
- 2009 Two strong earthquakes hit Asia; a 7.6 magnitude quake off the Indian Andaman Islands and a 6.5 magnitude quake in the Tokyo area of Japan, killing one and injuring dozens.
- 2009 UNASUR leaders express fresh concerns over Colombian plans to grant United States troops access to its military bases but cannot agree on a declaration to formally condemn the proposals. Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez warns that "the winds of war are beginning to blow" across the region.
- 2010 Important Islamic date - Ramadan: August 11 - September 8, 2010
- 2492 BC - Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation.
- 3114 BC - On this date in the proleptic Gregorian calendar begins our current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar.
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