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
- 3114 BC –The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Mayans, begins.
- 2492 BC –Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1898 –Spanish-American War: American troops enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
- 1918 –World War I: the Battle of Amiens ends.
- 1919 –The constitution of the Weimar Republic is adopted.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1947 –Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founding father of Pakistan, gives a speech to the Constituent Assembly, the contents and meaning of which remain contentious today.
- 1959 –Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens.
- 1965 –Race riots (the Watts riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
- 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.
- 1999 –The Salt Lake City Tornado tears through the downtown district of the city, killing one.
- 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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