Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 11
This is a list of selected August 11 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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DJ Kool Herc
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 3114 BC – The epoch of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, a non-repeating, vigesimal calendar used by the Maya civilization and several other Mesoamerican cultures, occurred. | refimprove section |
| 2492 BC – According to legend, Armenian culture hero Hayk slew the giant king Bel with a shot from a longbow near Lake Van (in modern Turkey). | disputed date; legendary event |
| 1919 – The Weimar Republic adopted its constitution to establish a liberal democracy in Germany. | Republic: refimprove sections; Constitution: refimprove section |
| 1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil received a patent for their "Secret Communications System", an early technique of frequency-hopping spread spectrum that later became the basis for many forms of today's wireless communication systems. | Antheil: unreferenced section |
| 1952 – King Talal of Jordan was forced to abdicate due to health reasons and was succeeded by his eldest son Hussein. | refimprove section |
| 1962 – Vostok 3 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andriyan Nikolayev became the first person to float in microgravity. | refimprove section |
| 1965 – Violent race riots began in Watts, Los Angeles, California, lasting for six days and leaving 34 people dead and 1,032 others injured. | refimprove section |
| 1988 – Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam and several senior leaders of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad formed what is now known as Al-Qaeda to continue jihad elsewhere around the world after the Soviet war in Afghanistan ended. | multiple issues |
Eligible
- 106 – The region of Dacia, comprising parts of modern Romania, became a province of the Roman Empire.
- 1492 – The first papal conclave held in the Sistine Chapel elected Roderic Borja as Pope Alexander VI to succeed Pope Innocent VIII.
- 1786 – Francis Light founded George Town, the first British settlement in Southeast Asia and the capital city of the Malaysian state of Penang.
- 1929 – The first Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic, the oldest and largest African-American parade in the United States, was held in Chicago.
- 1973 – At a party in the recreation room of a New York City apartment building, DJ Kool Herc began rapping during an extended break, laying the foundation for hip-hop music.
- 1979 – Two Aeroflot passenger jets collided in mid-air near Dniprodzerzhynsk in the Ukrainian SSR, killing all 178 people on both aircraft.
- 1999 – Ken Levine's System Shock 2 was released to mediocre sales, but was critically acclaimed and highly influenced subsequent first-person shooter game design.
- 1999 – The Salt Lake City Tornado hit downtown Salt Lake City, damaging 120 homes and injuring over 100 people.
- Born/died this day: Guttorm of Norway (d. 1204) | Hamnet Shakespeare (buried 1596) | William W. Chapman (b. 1808) | Enid Blyton (b. 1897) | Aaron Klug (b. 1926) | Reid Blackburn (b. 1952) | James B. Longacre (b. 1794) | Jacqueline Fernandez (b. 1985) | Pablo Sandoval (b. 1986)
August 11: Krishna Janmashtami (Hinduism, 2020); Independence Day in Chad (1960)
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- 1309 – Reconquista: Aragonese forces led by King James II landed on the coast of Almería, beginning an ultimately unsuccessful siege of the city, held at the time by the Emirate of Granada.
- 1945 – Amid rumors of kidnappings of children by Jews in Kraków, a crowd of Poles took part in a pogrom, resulting in at least one death.
- 1977 – The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration initiated an investigation into the alleged vulnerability of the Ford Pinto (example pictured) to fuel leakage and fire in a rear-end collision.
- 2012 – At least 306 people were killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.
- John Hunyadi (d. 1456)
- Steve Wozniak (b. 1950)
- Nicola Zagame (b. 1990)