August 11th

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The August 11 is the 223rd day of the Gregorian calendar (the 224th in leap years ), thus remain 142 days by year end.

Historic anniversaries
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events

Politics and world events

117: Emperor Hadrian
1718: Battle of Cape Passero
1904: Herero
1919: Weimar Constitution
1984: Ronald Reagan

business

science and technology

  • 3114 BC Chr .: According to the Thompson correlation by Sir J. Eric S. Thompson, the long count of the Mayan calendar begins with the date 0.0.0.0.0.
  • 1806: King Friedrich Wilhelm III. orders the establishment of the first Prussian school for the blind.
1901: Erich von Drygalski

Culture

religion

Disasters

1677: Rostock city fire
  • 1677: A third of the houses in Rostock are destroyed in the Rostock city fire . The fire that raged for 30 hours intensified the economic decline and had particularly detrimental consequences for the city's brewing industry .
  • 1979: In the Indian state of Gujarat occurred in the city Morvi a fraction of Machhu II - dam after heavy rains. The masses of water flowing out of the dam cost between 2,000 and 2,500 people's lives. Thunderstorms and storms at that time caused around 30,000 deaths in this region.
  • 2006: The Filipino oil tanker Solar 1 gets into distress in heavy seas and sinks off the island of Guimaras . His leaking load of 2,100 tons of heavy oil caused an oil spill on the shores of the island over a length of 125 kilometers .

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .

nature and environment

1999: solar eclipse

Sports

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .

Born

Before the 18th century

  • Nikolaus von Schönberg (* 1472)

  • Henrietta Maria Wentworth (* 1660)

  • Anna Maria Luisa de 'Medici (* 1667)

  • Asaf Jah I. (* 1671)

18th century

  • Marie-Auguste von Thurn and Taxis (* 1706)

  • Charlotte Amalie of Hessen-Philippsthal (* 1730)

  • David Roentgen (* 1743)

  • Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (* 1778)

19th century

1801-1850

  • David Rice Atchinson (* 1807)

  • Gottfried Kinkel (* 1815)

  • Marie François Sadi Carnot (* 1837)

  • Paul Hoecker (* 1854)

1851-1875

  • Felix von Luschan (* 1854)

  • Christiaan Eijkman (* 1858)

  • Ernst Anding (* 1860)

  • Ludwig Heck (* 1860)

  • Albert Boehringer (* 1861)

  • Max Neubert (* 1863)

  • Gifford Pinchot (* 1865)

  • Hans Goltz (* 1873)

1876-1900

  • Frieda von Richthofen (* 1879)

  • Sofija Parnok (* 1885)

  • Käthe Haack (* 1897)

  • Jindřich Štyrský (* 1899)

20th century

1901-1925

  • Kurt Gerstein (* 1905)

  • Thanom Kittikachorn (* 1911)

  • Alex Haley (* 1921)

  • Arlene Dahl (* 1925)

1926-1950

  • Stuart Gordon (* 1947)

  • Laila Dåvøy (* 1948)

  • Jan Palach (* 1948)

  • Steve Wozniak (born 1950)

1951-1975

  • Hulk Hogan (born 1953)

  • Frederick Wilford Sturckow (* 1961)

  • Uwe Ampler (* 1964)

  • Wolfgang Fasching (* 1967)

  • Jorge Gonzalez (* 1967)

  • Sophie Okonedo (* 1968)

  • Dru Berrymore (* 1969)

  • Ashley Jensen (* 1969)

1976-2000

  • Gemma Hayes (* 1977)

  • Jasmin Schwiers (* 1982)

  • Pippa Mann (* 1983)

  • Chris Hemsworth (* 1983)

  • Úrsula Corberó (* 1989)

  • Alyson Stoner (* 1993)

  • Madeline Juno (* 1995)

21st century

Died

Before the 16th century

  • Clare of Assisi († 1253)

  • Johann Hunyadi († 1456)

  • Nikolaus von Kues († 1464)

  • Hans Memling († 1494)

16th to 18th century

  • Johann Tetzel († 1519)

  • Hartmann Beyer († 1577)

  • Lavinia Fontana († 1614)

  • Ottavio Piccolomini († 1656)

  • Magdalene Sibylle of Hessen-Darmstadt († 1712)

  • Philip of Hesse-Darmstadt († 1736)

  • Joan Raye († 1737)

  • Augustus Toplady († 1778)

19th century

1801-1850

  • Ivan Petrovich Kulibin († 1818)

  • Franz Egon von Fürstenberg († 1825)

  • Claude-Antoine Prieur († 1832)

  • Carl Heinrich August von Lindenau († 1842)

1851-1900

  • Lorenz Oken († 1851)

  • Andrew Smith († 1872)

  • Ladislav Stroupežnický († 1892)

  • Heinrich Eduard Schmieder († 1893)

20th century

1901-1925

  • Francesco Crispi († 1901)

  • Heinrich von Attems-Petzenstein († 1904)

  • Andrew Carnegie († 1919)

  • Friedrich Krause († 1925)

1926-1950

  • JE Casely-Hayford († 1930)

  • Blas Infante († 1936)

  • Edith Wharton († 1937)

  • Joop Westerweel († 1944)

1951-1975

  • Rudolf Weigl († 1957)

  • Géza von Bolváry († 1961)

  • Carlo Mense († 1965)

  • Karl Ziegler († 1973)

1976-2000

  • Willi Forst († 1980)

  • Jean-Pierre Ponnelle († 1988)

21st century

  • Herb Brooks († 2003)

  • Fred Sinowatz († 2008)

  • Robin Williams († 2014)

  • VS Naipaul († 2018)

Holidays and memorial days

  • Church memorial days
    • St. Clare of Assisi , virgin, founder of the order and patron saint (Protestant, Anglican, Roman Catholic)

The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .

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