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, "Father of the Bill of Rights" (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 and 1905 Nobel laureate (d. 1910 )
1863 - Annie Jump Cannon , astronomer (d. 1941 )
1873 - Josip Plemelj , mathematician (d. 1967 )
1880 - Frank Tarrant , Australian all-rounder and one of the best cricketers never to play a Test match (d. 1951 ).
1882 - Max Born , physicist and 1954 Nobel laureate (d. 1970 )
1882 - Fiorello LaGuardia , mayor of New York City (d. 1947 )
1882 - Subramanya Bharathy , a Tamil Indian poet (d. 1921 )
1883 - Victor McLaglen , actor (d. 1959 )
1890 - Mark Tobey , painter (d. 1976 )
1905 - Gilbert Roland , actor (d. 1994 )
1911 - Naguib Mahfouz , Egyptian novelist, 1988 Nobel 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, 1970 Nobel laureate
1919 - Marie Windsor , actress (d. 2000 )
1920 - Big Mama Thornton , singer (d. 1984 )
1924 - Doc Blanchard , Heisman Trophy winner
1925 - Paul Greengard , scientist, 2001 Nobel laureate
1930 - Jean-Louis Trintignant , actor
1931 - Rita Moreno , singer, dancer, actress
1933 - Aquilino Pimentel, Jr. , Phillipine politician
1935 - Pranab Mukherjee , Indian politician
1936 - Taku Yamasaki , Japanese politician
1939 - Tom Hayden , American radical and politician
1943 - John Kerry , US politician
1944 - Brenda Lee , singer
1950 - Christina Onassis shipowner (d. 1988 )
1954 - Jermaine Jackson , musician
1958 - Nikki Sixx , musician
1969 - Vishwanathan Anand , Indian Chess Champion
1981 - Javier Saviola , Argentinan Soccer Player
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 )
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
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