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Historical Events on August 11

3114 BC
The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Maya, begins.
2492 BC
Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation.
106
The south-western part of Dacia (modern Romania) becomes a Roman province: Roman Dacia.
355
Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius II.
490
Battle of Adda: The Goths under Theodoric the Great and his ally Alaric II defeat the forces of Odoacer on the Adda River, near Milan.
1332
Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Dupplin Moor: Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol.
1473
The Battle of Otlukbeli: Mehmed the Conqueror of the Ottoman Empire decisively defeats Uzun Hassan of Aq Qoyunlu.
1675
Franco-Dutch War: Forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle of Konzer Brücke.
1786
Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
1804
Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria.
1812
Peninsular War: French troops engage British-Portuguese forces in the Battle of Majadahonda.
1813
In Colombia, Juan del Corral declares the independence of Antioquia.
1858
The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.
1898
Spanish-American War: American troops enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
1918
World War I: The Battle of Amiens ends.
1920
The Latvian-Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.
1929
Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
1934
The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
1942
Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.
1945
Poles in Kraków engage in a pogrom against Jews in the city, killing one and wounding five.
1952
Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.
1959
Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens.
1960
Chad declares independence.
1961
The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
1962
Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
1965
Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
1969
The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the moon.[1]
1972
Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
1975
East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
1979
Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners.
1982
A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others.
1984
"We begin bombing in five minutes": United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.
2003
NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
2003
Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
2006
The oil tanker M/T Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill.
2012
At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.
2017
At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger trains collide in Alexandria, Egypt.

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