December 11
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December 11 is the 345th day (346th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 20 days remaining.
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Events
- 1205 - John Grey, Bishop of Norwich, was elected Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 1620 - The Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
- 1792 - King Louis XVI of France goes on trial for treason
- 1816 - Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.
- 1816 - Citizens of Geneva, Switzerland repel attack by Savoy
- 1901 - Guglielmo Marconi sends the first trans-Atlantic radio signal, from Cornwall to Newfoundland
- 1917 - Lithuania declares its independence from the Soviet Union
- 1931 - Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland and Newfoundland
- 1937 - Edward VIII's abdication as King of the United Kingdom becomes effective.
- 1937 - Italy leaves the League of Nations.
- 1941 - Germany and Italy declare war on the United States.
- 1946 - The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established.
- 1958 - Upper Volta declares its independence from France
- 1972 - Apollo 17 lands on the Moon.
- 1981 - Muhammad Ali's last fight -- he loses to Trevor Berbick
- - Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru becomes UN Secretary-General
- - The Salvadoran armed forces massacre 900 villagers in the El Mozote Massacre.
- 1994 - Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya
- 1994 - A small bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, killing a Japanese businessman. The bombing was a field test done by Ramzi Yousef to test explosives that would have been used in Project Bojinka, a terrorist attack plan that would be exposed after an apartment fire.
- 1998 - A Thai Airways Airbus A310-200 crashes just short of runway at Surat Thani airport, located in southern Thailand, killing 101
- 2001 - DrinkOrDie raids.
- 2001 - The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization.
Births
- 1475 - Pope Leo X (+ 1521)
- 1725 - George Mason, U.S. patriot, "Father of the Bill of Rights"
- 1781 - Sir David Brewster, physicist (+ 1868)
- 1801 - Christian Dietrich Grabbe, writer
- 1803 - Hector Berlioz, composer (+ 1869)
- 1810 - Alfred de Musset, poet (+ 1857)
- 1843 - Robert Koch, bacteriologist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in medicine 1905 (+ 1910)
- 1873 - Josip Plemelj, mathematician
- 1882 - Max Born, physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1954 (+ 1970)
- 1882 - Fiorello LaGuardia, mayor of New York City (+ 1947)
- 1883 - Victor McLaglen, actor (+ 1959)
- 1890 - Mark Tobey, painter (+ 1976)
- 1905 - Gilbert Roland, actor (+ 1994)
- 1911 - Naguib Mahfouz, novelist
- 1913 - Jean Marais, actor (+ 1998)
- 1913 - Carlo Ponti, director
- 1918 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature
- 1919 - Marie Windsor, actress (+ 2000)
- 1920 - Big Mama Thornton, singer
- 1924 - Doc Blanchard, Heisman Trophy winner
- 1930 - Jean-Louis Trintignant, actor
- 1931 - Rita Moreno, singer, dancer, actress
- 1939 - Tom Hayden, American radical and politician
- 1944 - Booker T. Jones, musician
- 1944 - Brenda Lee, singer
- 1950 - Christina Onassis shipowner (+ 1988)
- 1954 - Jermaine Jackson, musician
- 1958 - Nikki Sixx, musician
Deaths
- 384 - St. Damasus, Pope
- 1945 - Charles Fabry, physicist
- 1964 - Sam Cooke
Holidays and observances
See Also:
December 10 - December 12 - November 11 - January 11 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "December 11" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_11 December 10, 2003
