About August 11
August 11, 2025 is the 223rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 142 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 190 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 11
- 3114 BC –The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Mayans, begins.
- 355 –Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius II.
- 1332 –Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Dupplin Moor – Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol.
- 1675 –Franco-Dutch War: forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle of Konzer Brücke.
- 1786 –Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
- 1804 –Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria.
- 1858 –The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1934 –The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
- 1947 –Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founding father of Pakistan, gives a speech to the Constituent Assembly, the contents and meaning of which remain contentious today.
- 1952 –Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.
- 1959 –Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens.
- 1961 –The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
- 1972 –Vietnam War: the last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
- 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.
- 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 –Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
- 2003 –The highest temperature ever seen in Great Britain (38.1 °C) is recorded at Gravesend, Kent.
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