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  • Stela showing the Maya mythical creation date of 13 baktuns, 0 katuns, 0 tuns, winals, 0 kins, 4 Ahau 8 Cumku – August 11, 3114 BC

    Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar

    3114 BC 3114-08-11 BCE is traditionally considered the start date of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Maya
  • 1945 Allies refuse Japan's offer to surrender on the condition that Emperor Hirohito retains his status
  • 1954 Formal peace treaty ends over seven years of fighting in Indochina between the French and the Communist Viet Minh
  • 1988 Al-Qaeda is formed at a meeting between Osama Bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Dr. Fadl in Peshawar, Pakistan
  • 2003 NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan in its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year history
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  • 1937 "The Life of Émile Zola," directed by William Dieterle and starring Paul Muni, premieres in New York (Best Picture 1938)
  • 1978 Second studio album by Chic, "C'est Chic," is released, featuring the single "Le Freak" (Billboard Album of the Year 1979)
  • 1929 New York Yankees slugger Babe Ruth becomes the first MLB player to hit 500 home runs (off Willis Hudlin) in a 6-5 loss to the Indians at League Park, Cleveland

First televised baseball game in color airs on WCBS in New York City; Boston Braves beat Brooklyn Dodgers 8-1

August 11, 1951

  • Emperor Henry V

    1081 - 1125

  • Christiaan Eijkman

    1858 - 1930

  • Enid Blyton

    1897 - 1968

  • Alex Haley

    1921 - 1992

  • Pervez Musharraf

    1943 - 2023

  • Steve Wozniak

    75 Years Old
More Birthdays on August 11

  • Mike Douglas

    1920 - 2006

  • Hulk Hogan

    1953 - 2025

  • Shinji Mikami

    60 Years Old

  • Joe Rogan

    58 Years Old

  • Chris Hemsworth

    42 Years Old

During a radio voice test, US President Reagan jokes that he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."

August 11, 1984

  • 1886 Education pioneer Booker T. Washington (30) weds Olivia Davidson (32) Athens, Ohio
  • 1925 British physicist James Chadwick (33) weds Aileen Stewart-Brown in Liverpool, England
  • 1949 Molecular biologist Francis Crick (33) weds artist Odile Speed (29)
  • 1993 American filmmaker Oliver Stone files for divorce from Elizabeth Cox, after 12 years of marriage
  • 2019 American singer Miley Cyrus (26) and Australian actor Liam Hemsworth (28) announce their separation and intention to divorce, after 8 months of marriage
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  • Andrew Carnegie

    1835 - 1919

  • Edith Wharton

    1862 - 1937

  • Herb Brooks

    1937 - 2003

  • Mike Douglas

    1920 - 2006

  • Robin Williams

    1951 - 2014

  • Hanif Mohammad

    1934 - 2016
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  • Jackson Pollock in front of Summertime: Number 9A for Life magazine, 1949 | Image source: kazoart.com

    ‘Jack The Dripper’ Paintings Sell For Millions

    A newspaper described the paintings of Jackson Pollock, who died on this day, as a joke. But the artist had the last laugh, his works have sold for millions. August 11, 1956
  • Pope Paul VI's body lying in view in the Vatican after his death

    Funeral of Pope Paul VI

    Pope Paul VI's body lying in view in the Vatican after his death August 11, 1978
  • American naval ships leave Virginia on December 16, 1907, the first day of their two-year voyage

    Weekly Quiz for August 5 - 11

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  • John H. Surratt wearing a Papal Zouave uniform in 1866

    ‘Dirty Rat’ Lets His Mother Die

    August 9, 1867
  • Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra in the 1963 movie. Its costs nearly bankrupted Twentieth Century Fox

    Did a Snake Kill Cleopatra?

    August 10, 0030 BC
  • The Madagascar as painted by Thomas Goldsworth Dutton. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

    Ship of Gold Sails Into Oblivion

    August 12, 1853
  • Repeated deadly arrow-storms stopped the French in their tracks at the Battle of Agincourt

    Defiance in the Hundred Years' War

    August 13, 1415
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