About August 11
August 11, 2020 is the 224th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 142 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 185 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.
- 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.
- 1675 –Franco-Dutch War: forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle of Konzer Brücke.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1952 –Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.
- 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.
- 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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