About August 11
August 11, 2024 is the 224th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 142 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 171 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1965 –Race riots (the Watts riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
- 1972 –Vietnam War: the last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
- 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 –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.
- 2003 –The highest temperature ever seen in Great Britain (38.1 °C) is recorded at Gravesend, Kent.
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