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117Aug 11The Roman army of Syria hailed its legate, Hadrian, as emperor, which made the senate’s formal acceptance an almost meaningless event. One of his first acts was to withdraw Rome’s army from Mesopotamia (modern Iraq).
991Aug 11Danes under Olaf Tryggvason killed Ealdorman Brihtnoth and defeated the Saxons at Maldon.
1180Aug 11Guillaume de Sens, French master builder (Canterbury), died.
1259Aug 11Mongke, Mongol great-khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, died.
1456Aug 11Janos Hunyadi (69), Hungarian Prince and general strategist died of plague at about age 49.
1519Aug 11Johann Tetzel (~79), Dominican monk, died.
1597Aug 11Germany threw out English salesmen in “a noble experiment.”
1772Aug 11An explosive eruption blew 4,000 feet off Papandayan, Java, and 3,000 people were killed.
1792Aug 11A revolutionary commune was formed in Paris, France.
1849Aug 11Lajos Kossuth, president of Hungary, abdicated in favor of Gen. Gorgey as Russia intervened in the Hungarian revolution.
1856Aug 11A band of rampaging settlers in California killed four Yokut Indians. The settlers had heard unproven rumors of Yokut atrocities.
1860Aug 11The first US successful silver mill began operation near Virginia City, Nev.
1866Aug 11The world’s 1st roller rink opened at Newport, RI.
1868Aug 11Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868), Pennsylvania Republican and architect of Radical Reconstruction, died.
1874Aug 11Harry S. Parmelee patented a sprinkler head.
1896Aug 11Harvey Hubbell patented an electric light bulb socket with a pull chain.
1904Aug 11German General Lothar von Trotha defeated the Hereros tribe near Waterberg, South Africa.
1906Aug 11In France Eugene Lauste received the first patent for a talking film.
1908Aug 11Britain’s King Edward VII met with Kaiser Wilhelm II to protest the growth of the German navy.
1909Aug 11The SOS distress signal was first used by an American ship, the Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, N.C.
1912Aug 11Moroccan Sultan Mulai Hafid abdicated his throne in the face of internal dissent. Most of the country became a French protectorate with Spain taking the northern fifth.
1914Aug 11Jews were expelled from Mitchenick, Poland.
1916Aug 11The Russia army took Stanislau, Poland, from the Germans.
1918Aug 11The British attacked with 450 tanks at the Battle of Amiens as the Allies pushed Germany back.
1919Aug 11The Green Bay Packers football was club founded.
1919Aug 11Germany’s Weimar Constitution was signed by President Friedrich Ebert.
1929Aug 11Babe Ruth hit his 500th major league home run against the Cleveland Indians.
1935Aug 11There was a Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews.
1939Aug 11Sergei Rachmaninov had his last appearance in Europe.
1940Aug 1138 German aircrafts were shot down over England.
1942Aug 11Some 999 Jews were taken from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium.
1942Aug 11The SS began exterminating 3,500 Jews in Zelov Lodz, Poland.
1943Aug 11Richard Strauss’ 2nd Horn Concerto premiered.
1944Aug 11German troops abandoned Florence, Italy, as Allied troops closed in on the historic city.
1949Aug 11President Truman nominated Gen. Omar N. Bradley to become the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
1951Aug 11The Mississippi River flooded some 100,000 acres in Ks, Okla, Mo and Ill.
1954Aug 11A formal peace took hold in Indochina, ending more than seven years of fighting between the French and Communist Vietminh.
1956Aug 11Elvis Presley released “Don’t Be Cruel.”
1957Aug 11Paul Hindemith’s opera “Harmonie der Welt,” premiered in Munich.
1960Aug 11Chad became independent from France, but remained within the French community. Francois Tombalbaye became the 1st president.
1962Aug 11The Soviet Union launched cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev on a 94-hour flight.
1964Aug 11Beatles’ “A Hard Days Night” opened in NYC.
1965Aug 11Beatles movie “Help” opened in NYC.
1966Aug 11Wilkes Bashford (33), men’s clothing retailer, opened his own shop in SF. In 2009 he filed for bankruptcy and sold his operations to Mitchells/Richards/Marshs, an East Coast company.
1975Aug 11Alfred Loomis (b.1887), financier and amateur physicist, died. In 2002 Jennet Conant authored “Tuxedo Park,” an account of how Loomis led research that enhanced radar and led to the atom bomb.
1977Aug 11The California legislature restored the death penalty.
1978Aug 11“Le Freak” by Chic was released. In October it topped the US hot 100 chart.
1984Aug 11In LA, Ca., Carl Lewis (b.1961) duplicated Jesse Owens’ 1936 feat with 4 Olympic track gold medals.
1985Aug 11“Dreamgirls” closed at Imperial Theater in NYC after 1522 performances.
1987Aug 11Economist Alan Greenspan succeeded Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Greenspan retired in 2006.
1988Aug 11The U.S. Senate confirmed Dick Thornburgh to succeed Edwin Meese III as attorney general, by a vote of 85-0.
1989Aug 11Poland’s Solidarity-dominated Senate adopted a resolution expressing sorrow for the nation’s participation in the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia.
1990Aug 11Egyptian and Moroccan troops arrived in Saudi Arabia to join US forces in helping to protect the desert kingdom from possible Iraqi attack.
1991Aug 11The space shuttle “Atlantis” returned safely from a nine-day journey.
1992Aug 11In Washington, D.C., negotiators for the United States, Canada and Mexico continued to work out final details of the proposed North American Free Trade Agreement.
1993Aug 11Pope John Paul II visited Mexico.
1994Aug 11The Tenth International Conference on AIDS concluded in Yokohama, Japan.
1995Aug 11President Clinton banned all US nuclear tests, calling his decision “the right step as we continue pulling back from the nuclear precipice.”
1996Aug 11The Reform Party opened the first part of its two-stage convention in Long Beach, Calif., with Ross Perot and Richard Lamm battling for the presidential nod.
1997Aug 11Steelhead trout of the west coast was added to the federal list of imperiled species.
1997Aug 11Int’l. donors offered Thailand a $16-17 bil loan package.
1998Aug 11Steve Fossett (54) became the first man to cross the south Atlantic in a balloon. He was on his 4th attempt to float around the world.
1999Aug 11Pres. Clinton offered conditional amnesty to imprisoned Puerto Rican militants (FALN). The separatists were responsible for at least 150 bombings over a 9-year period that killed 6 people and injured over 70.
2000Aug 11Pat Buchanan won the Reform Party’s presidential nomination and named Ezola Foster (62), a black former teacher, as his running mate. Dissidents, disputed by party founder Ross Perot’s supporters, chose physicist John Hagelin at a rump convention.
2001Aug 11In his weekly radio address, President Bush said his decision to restrict but not forbid federal financing of embryonic stem cell research placed him at the crossroads between protecting and enhancing human life.
2002Aug 11US Airways, the 6th largest US airline, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
2003Aug 11Pres. Bush named Mike Leavitt, Republican governor of Utah, to head the EPA.
2004Aug 11The U.S. women’s soccer team defeated home team Greece 3-0 on the first day of competition in the 2004 Olympic Games. The opening ceremony took place two days later.
2005Aug 11Scott Sullivan, former WorldCom finance chief, was sentenced to five years in prison for his high-ranking role in the largest accounting fraud in U.S. history.
2006Aug 11A Kentucky judge ruled that Gov. Ernie Fletcher, under fire for a hiring scandal, is protected by executive immunity and cannot be prosecuted while in office.
2007Aug 11President George W. Bush welcomed France’s Pres. Sarkozy to the Bush family’s oceanfront home in Maine for a private meeting, boat ride and picnic fare.
2008Aug 11President George W. Bush said he used talks with China’s leaders during the Beijing Olympics to press them to use their influence with Sudan to help end the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.
2009Aug 11Bernard Madoff’s long-time deputy, Frank DiPascali, pleaded guilty to financial crimes including helping others carry out Wall Street’s biggest investment fraud, but shed little more light in court on the decades-long swindle.
2010Aug 11In Iowa 3 nights of heavy rainfall caused creeks and rivers to swell, forcing hundreds of residents from their homes and killing a 16-year-old girl when three cars were swept away by a torrent of water on a rural road.
2011Aug 11The DJIA rose 423.37 to close at 11,143.31 the 4th straight day this week of a net change of 400 points or more.
2012Aug 11Mitt Romney announced he’s selected Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his vice presidential running mate.
2013Aug 11A San Francisco Superior Court judge, at the request of Gov. Jerry Brown, ordered a 60-day cooling-off period to avert a BART strike.
2014Aug 11The United States said it has begun urgently shipping weapons to the Iraqi Kurdish forces battling an advance by extremist Islamic State militants.

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