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
- 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.
- 1927 - Start of the Guangzhou Uprising.
- 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.
- 1936 - 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 became the sixth and last mission to date to land 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.
- 1998 - A Thai Airways Airbus A310-200 crashes just short of runway at Surat Thani Airport, killing 101.
- 2001 - Police conducts raid and arrest members of the DrinkOrDie warez group.
- 2001 - The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization
Births
- 1465 - Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (d. 1489)
- 1475 - Pope Leo X (d. 1521)
- 1566 - Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer (d. 1650)
- 1680 - Emanuele d'Astorga, Italian composer
- 1712 - Francesco Algarotti. Italian philosopher (d. 1764)
- 1725 - George Mason, American patriot (d. 1792)
- 1781 - Sir David Brewster, Scottish 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, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1910)
- 1863 - Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (d. 1941)
- 1873 - Josip Plemelj, Slovenian mathematician (d. 1967)
- 1880 - Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (d. 1951)
- 1882 - Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil Indian poet (d. 1921)
- 1882 - Max Born, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
- 1882 - Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York City (d. 1947)
- 1883 - Victor McLaglen, English-born actor (d. 1959)
- 1890 - Mark Tobey, American painter (d. 1976)
- 1905 - Gilbert Roland, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1908 - Elliot Carter, American composer
- 1911 - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1912 - Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer
- 1913 - Jean Marais, French actor (d. 1998)
- 1916 - Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban musician (d. 1989)
- 1918 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1919 - Marie Windsor, American actress (d. 2000)
- 1920 - Big Mama Thornton, American singer (d. 1984)
- 1922 - Grace Paley, American writer
- 1925 - Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 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 politician
- 1943 - John Kerry, American politician and Presidential candidate
- 1944 - Brenda Lee, American singer
- 1949 - Teri Garr, American film actress
- 1950 - Christina Onassis American shipowner (d. 1988)
- 1954 - Jermaine Jackson, American musician
- 1958 - Nikki Sixx, American musician (Mötley Crüe)
- 1966 - Leon Lai, Hong Kong actor and singer
- 1969 - Vishwanathan Anand, Indian chess player
- 1972 - Dana Macsim, Romanian-born television news reporter
- 1974 - Rey Mysterio, American professional wrestler
- 1981 - Javier Saviola, Argentine footballer
- 1981 - Zacky Vengeance, American guitarist (Avenged Sevenfold)
- 1989 - sacha novik, Politician
Deaths
- 384 - Pope Damasus I
- 1121 - Al-Afdal Shahanshah, Caliph of Egypt (b. 1066)
- 1226 - Robert de Ros, English politician (b. 1177)
- 1282 - Llywelyn the Last, Welsh Prince of Gwynedd
- 1282 - Michael VIII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1225)
- 1532 - Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1455)
- 1694 - Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1630)
- 1737 - John Strype, English historian and biographer (b. 1643)
- 1757 - Edmund Curll, English bookseller and publisher (b. 1675)
- 1840 - Emperor Kokaku of Japan (b. 1771)
- 1858 - Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian theatre director (d. 1943)
- 1909 - Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (b. 1855)
- 1920 - Olive Schreiner, South African writer (b. 1855)
- 1938 - Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1869)
- 1941 - John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (b. 1922)
- 1945 - Charles Fabry, French physicist (b. 1867)
- 1950 - Leslie Comrie, New Zealand-born astronomer and computing pioneer (b. 1893)
- 1957 - Musidora, French actress and director (b. 1889)
- 1964 - Sam Cooke, American singer (b. 1931)
- 1978 - Vincent du Vigneaud, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
- 1983 - Sir Neil Ritchie, British general. (b. 1897)
- 1996 - Willie Rushton, British comedian, satirist, actor, and cartoonist (b. 1937)
- 2003 - Ahmadou Kourouma, Côte d'Ivoire writer (b. 1927)
- 2004 - M.S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer (b. 1916)
Annual events
- Tango Day, Buenos Aires
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