About August 11
August 11, 2021 is the 223rd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 142 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Leo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 174 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 11
- 2492 BC –Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation.
- 106 –The south-eastern part of Dacia (modern Romania) becomes a Roman province: Roman Dacia.
- 1332 –Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Dupplin Moor – Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol.
- 1786 –Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
- 1804 –Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria.
- 1812 –Peninsular War: French troops engage British-Portuguese forces in the Battle of Majadahonda.
- 1858 –The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.
- 1918 –World War I: the Battle of Amiens ends.
- 1919 –The constitution of the Weimar Republic is adopted.
- 1920 –The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia’s authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.
- 1942 –Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a frequency hopping, spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.
- 1959 –Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens.
- 1960 –Chad declares independence.
- 1961 –The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
- 1965 –Race riots (the Watts riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
- 1975 –East Timor: Governor Mário 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.
- 1982 –A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo to Honolulu, killing one teenager and injuring 15 passengers.
- 1984 –“We begin bombing in five minutes” - United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.
- 2003 –NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
- 2003 –The highest temperature ever seen in Great Britain (38.1 °C) is recorded at Gravesend, Kent.
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