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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1898 –Spanish-American War: American troops enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
- 1918 –World War I: the Battle of Amiens ends.
- 1920 –The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia’s authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.
- 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.
- 1960 –Chad declares independence.
- 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.
- 1999 –The Salt Lake City Tornado tears through the downtown district of the city, killing one.
- 2003 –A heat wave in Paris results in temperatures rising to 112 °F, leaving 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.
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