December 11
December 11 is the 345th day (346th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 20 days remaining.
Events
- 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.
- 1931 - Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland and Newfoundland
- 1934 - A fire at the Hotel Kerns in Lansing, Michigan kills 34 people.
- 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.
- 1954 - The American Nuclear Society is founded
- 1958 - Upper Volta declares its independence from France
- 1970 - John Lennon releases the classic album Plastic Ono Band.
- 1971 - The United States Libertarian Party is formed.
- 1972 - Apollo 17 lands on the Moon
- 1981 - Muhammad Ali's last fight – he loses to Trevor Berbick
- 1981 - Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru becomes UN Secretary-General
- 1981 - 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
- 1465 - Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Ashikaga shogun (d. 1489)
- 1475 - Pope Leo X (d. 1521)
- 1725 - George Mason, American patriot (d. 1792)
- 1781 - Sir David Brewster, physicist (d. 1868)
- 1801 - Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer (d. 1836)
- 1803 - Hector Berlioz, French composer (d. 1869)
- 1810 - Alfred de Musset, French poet (d. 1857)
- 1843 - Robert Koch, bacteriologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1910)
- 1863 - Annie Jump Cannon, astronomer (d. 1941)
- 1873 - Josip Plemelj, mathematician (d. 1967)
- 1880 - Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (d. 1951).
- 1882 - Max Born, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
- 1882 - Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York City (d. 1947)
- 1882 - Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil Indian poet (d. 1921)
- 1883 - Victor McLaglen, actor (d. 1959)
- 1890 - Mark Tobey, painter (d. 1976)
- 1905 - Gilbert Roland, actor (d. 1994)
- 1908 - Elliot Carter, American composer
- 1911 - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian novelist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1912 - Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer
- 1913 - Jean Marais, actor (d. 1998)
- 1916 - Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban musician (d. 1989)
- 1918 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian author, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1919 - Marie Windsor, actress (d. 2000)
- 1920 - Big Mama Thornton, singer (d. 1984)
- 1924 - Doc Blanchard, American football player
- 1925 - Paul Greengard, scientist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1930 - Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor
- 1931 - Rita Moreno, Puerto Rican singer, dancer, and actress
- 1933 - Aquilino Pimentel, Jr., Filipino politician
- 1935 - Pranab Mukherjee, Indian politician
- 1936 - Taku Yamasaki, Japanese politician
- 1939 - Tom Hayden, American radical and politician
- 1943 - John Kerry, American politician and Presidential candidate
- 1944 - Brenda Lee, singer
- 1949 - Terri Garr, American film actress
- 1950 - Christina Onassis shipowner (d. 1988)
- 1954 - Jermaine Jackson, musician
- 1958 - Nikki Sixx, musician
- 1969 - Vishwanathan Anand, Indian chess player
- 1974 - Rey Mysterio, WWE wrestler
- 1981 - Javier Saviola, Argentine footballer
Deaths
- 384 - St. Damasus, Pope
- 1282 - Llywelyn the Last, Prince of Wales
- 1694 - Ranuccio Farnese II, Duke of Parma (b. 1630)
- 1920 - Olive Schreiner, writer (b. 1855)
- 1941 - John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (b. 1922)
- 1945 - Charles Fabry, physicist
- 1950 - Leslie Comrie, astronomer and computing pioneer (b. 1893)
- 1964 - Sam Cooke, singer (b. 1931)
- 1983 - Sir Neil Ritchie, British general. (b. 1897)
- 1996 - Willie Rushton, UK comedian, satirist, actor and cartoonist (b. 1937)
- 2003 - Ahmadou Kourouma, author from Côte d'Ivoire
- 2003 - Paulos Tzadua, Roman Catholic cardinal from Ethiopia
- 2004 - M.S. Subbulakshmi, Carnatic vocalist
Annual events
External links
December 10 - December 12 - November 11 - January 11 -- listing of all days
See also: December 11, 1282, 1465, 1475, 1489
