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| 1253 Claire of Assisi (also spelled Clare or Clara or Chiara - Italian Santa Chiara Di Assisi) abbess and founder of the Poor Clares (Clarissines) dies. August 11 is her feast day. | ||
| 1304 Sea battle of Zierikzee | ||
| 1492 Rodrigo de Borja ("uncle" of Lucetia) becomes Pope Alexander VI | ||
| 1522 Uprising of adel/burgerij in Austria fails |
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| 1597 Germany throws out English sales people | ||
| 1611 Emperor Rudolf forces out king of Bohemia | ||
| 1674 1st Battle of at Seneffe (Louis II Condè‚ vs Willem III) | ||
| 1695 English & Dutch fleet capture Dunkirk | ||
| 1718 Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish | ||
| 1772 Explosive eruption blows 4,000' off Papandayan Java, kills 3,000 | ||
| 1780 Barbados hurricane begins | ||
| 1835 George B Airy begins 46-year reign as England's Astronomer Royal | ||
| 1852 Nicolaas Plomp, Dutch architect (Strugle), dies at 70 | ||
| 1860 Nation's 1st successful silver mill (Virginia City, NV) | ||
| 1863 Cambodia becomes French protectorate | ||
| 1866 World's 1st roller rink opens (Newport RI) | ||
| 1874 Harry S Parmelee patents sprinkler head | ||
| 1877 U.S. astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Deimos, ("Panic" in Greek), a satellite of Mars, at the Naval Observatory in Washington. Deimos and Phobos were the mythological horses of Mars' chariot. | ||
| 1885 $100,000 raised in US for pedestal for the Statue of Liberty | ||
| 1890 John Henry Newman, English cardinal, dies at 89 | ||
| 1896 Harvey Hubbell patents electric light bulb socket with a pull chain | ||
| 1901 Francesco Crispi, Italian minister of War/premier, dies at about 82 | ||
| 1904 German-ltalian General Von Trotha defeats Herero in SW Africa | ||
| 1909 The international distress call, SOS was first used in 1909 by the ocean liner, Arapahoe (an American ship) that found itself in trouble off Cape Hatteras, NC. The ship’s wireless operator, T. D. Haubner, radioed for help when his ship lost its screw propeller near the ‘Graveyard of the Atlantic’, Diamond Shoals. The call was heard by the United Wireless station at Hatteras and the ship was saved | ||
| 1914 France declares war on Austria-Hungary | ||
| 1914 Jews are expelled from Mitchenick Poland | ||
| 1914 John Wray patents animation | ||
| 1918 Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allies beat Germans | ||
| 1919 Green Bay Packers football club founded | ||
| 1919 Weimar Republic begins in Germany | ||
| 1920 1st peace of Riga-Soviet Union recognizes Independence of Latvia | ||
| 1923 Dutch Premier de Geer resigns | ||
| 1924 1st newsreel pictures of presidential candidates were taken | ||
| 1929 Persia & Iraq sign friendship treaty | ||
| 1929 Russian-Chinese border fights | ||
| 1934 1st federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in SF Bay | ||
| 1935 Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews | ||
| 1935 William Watson, British poet (Purple East), dies | ||
| 1936 Chaing Kai-shek's troops conquer Canton | ||
| 1939 Sergei Rachmaninovs last appearance in Europe | ||
| 1940 38 German aircraft shot down above England | ||
| 1940 German air raid on British harbors Portland/Weymouth | ||
| 1942 999 Jews are taken from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium | ||
| 1942 British aircraft carrier Eagle torpedoed & sinks | ||
| 1943 Red Army recaptures Tchukujev, at Kharkov | ||
| 1943 US amphibians land at Brolo on north coast of Sicily | ||
| 1944 Klaus Barbie, Gestapo head of Lyon France leaves for Auschwitz | ||
| 1944 US air raid on Palembang | ||
| 1945 The World War II Allies replied to a Japanese communique', saying that the authority of the emperor and the Japanese government to rule Japan would be subject to the judgment of the Allied Supreme Commander. | ||
| 1948 Summer Olympics open in London | ||
| 1949 Gaston Eyskens forms Belgian govt | ||
| 1950 King Boudouin I takes oath as royal prince of Belgium | ||
| 1952 Hussein Ibn Talal I, King of Jordan succeeded to the throne after his father, King Talal, was deposed because of mental illness. | ||
| 1954 Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ yrs of fighting in Indochina between French & Communist Vietminh | ||
| 1955 Indonesia govt of Harahap forms | ||
| 1960 Chad gains independence from France. | ||
| 1962 Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3 | ||
| 1966 A treaty to end three years of hostilities between Malaysia and Indonesia was signed in Jakarta by the Indonesian foreign minister and Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak | ||
| 1971 Construction begins on Louisiana Superdome | ||
| 1974 Coup in East-Timor under UDT | ||
| 1974 Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey) | ||
| 1976 Race riot in Cape Town, South Africa; 17 die | ||
| 1978 Funeral of Pope Paul VI | ||
| 1980 Mohammed Ali Radjai appointed premier of Iran | ||
| 1987 France & Great Britain send mine sweepers to Persian Gulf | ||
| 1990 Troops from Egypt and Morocco land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion | ||
| 1991 400,000 demonstrate for democracy in Madagascar, 31 killed | ||
| 1994 The Russian Supreme Court acquitted Gen. Valentin Varennikov of high treason for joining those trying to overthrow former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in an August 1991 coup attempt. | ||
| 1997 Thailand received pledges of aid from the International Monetary Fund and neighbor states of $16 billion to rescue its ailing economy. | ||
| 1999 Total solar eclipse in most of Central Europe (it was partially visible from the Eastern U.S. accross the Atlantic throughout Europe all the way to India). The maximum duration of total eclipse was 2m23s in Rumania. |
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