On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on August 11:
1778 Friedrich Ludwig Jahn founder of turnverein (gymnastics) movement
1807 David Atchison legislator: president pro tempore of the U.S. Senate, president of U.S. for one day [March 4, 1849], the Sunday before Zachary Taylor was sworn in
1823 Charlotte Mary Yonge England, writer (Heir of Redclyffe)
1833 Robert Green Ingersoll NY, author/politician/agnostic (Att Gen-R-Ill)
1862 Carrie Jacobs Bond Janesville Wisc, songwriter (I Love You Truly)
1867 Joseph Weber comedian (Weber & Fields)
1892 Hugh MacDiarmid Scotland, writer (Scots Unbound)
1897 Louise Bogan Maine, writer (Sleeping Fury)
1900 Alexander Mosolov Kiev Russia, composer (Zavod)
1900 Charles Paddock sprinter (world's fastest human of 1920s)
1902 Lloyd Nolan SF Calif, actor (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Peyton Place)
1911 Henry Kulky Hastings-on-Hudson NY, actor (Otto-Life of Riley)
1912 Jean Parker Montana, actress (Beyond Tomorrow, Little Women)
1920 William Masselos Niagara Falls NY, pianist/prof (Juiliard 1976)
1921 Alex Haley US, author (Roots)
1924 Arlene Dahl Minneapolis Minnesota, actress/TV panelist (Ambush)
1925 Carl Rowan gun-toting newspaper columnist (Wash Post)
1925 Mike Douglas Chicago Ill, talk show host (Mike Douglas Show)
1926 Claus Von Bulow accused of murdering his wife
1927 Raymond Leppard London England, conductor (St Louis Symphony Orch)
1933 Jerry Falwell televangelist, Moral Majority head
1937 Anna Massey actress (De Sade, Doll's House)
1941 Elizabeth Holtzman Bkln DA (D-Rep-NY, Watergate Committee)
1942 Mike Hugg drummer (Manfred Mann)
1946 Marilyn Vos Savant St Louis Mo, writer/world's highest IQ (Guinness)
1947 Jeff Hanna singer/guitarist (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
1947 Sergey Kovalneko USSR, basketball (Olympic-bronze-1968)
1949 Eric Carmen Cleveland, Ohio, rocker (All by Myself)
1949 Ian Charleson Edinburgh Scotland, actor (Jamie-Master of the Game)
1950 Erik Brann guitarist (Iron Butterfly)
1950 Steve Wozniak cofounded Apple Computer
1952 Ann Michelle England, actress (Virigin Witch)
1953 Hulk Hogan [Terry Bollea], Ga, WWF heavyweight champion (1984-89)
1953 Sanford Jensen South Haven Mich, actor (Foley Square)
1954 Lina Polito Naples Italy, actress (Love & Anarchy)
1955 Joe Jackson England, singer (Steppin' Out)
1959 Linda Rhys Vaughn Grossmont Ca, playmate (Apr, 1982)
1964 Hamish rocker (The Pasedenas-Riding on the Train)
1969 Eddie Garcia LA, actor/musician (Guys Next Door-I Was Made For You)
Deaths which occurred on August 11:
0991 Ealdorman Brihtnoth killed in battle
1180 Guillaume de Sens, French master builder (Canterbury)
1259 Mongke, Mongol great-khan/grandson of Ghengis Khan
1868 Thaddeus Stevens architect of Radical Reconstruction, dies at 76
1956 Jackson Pollock abstract artist, dies in auto accident (East Hampton)
1973 Peggy Castle actress (Lily Merrill-Lawman), dies at 46
1975 Alfred Loomis (d.1975), financier and amateur physicist, Loomis led research that enhanced radar and led to the atom bomb
1975 Anthony C. McAuliffe (77), US gen, commandant 101st airborne div. (Nuts!), died.
1982 Tom Drake actor, dies of lung cancer at 63
1984 Alfred A Knopf, US publisher
1988 Anne Ramsey actress, dies of cancer at 59
1988 Jean-Pierre Ponnele opera director (Carmina Burana), dies at 56
2002 Jiri Kolar (87), Czech poet and artist known mainly for his pioneering work in the art of collage, died in Prague
2003 Herb Brooks, who coached the U.S. Olympic hockey team to the "Miracle on Ice" victory over the Soviet Union in 1980, died in a car wreck near Minneapolis at age 66.
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
11-Aug-2004 2 | US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Lance Corporal Tavon L. Hubbard Al Anbar Province Non-hostile - helicopter crash
US Staff Sergeant John R. Howard Al Anbar Province Non-hostile - helicopter crash
Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY
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On this day...
0117 Hadrian learns of death of emperor Trajan
0991 Danes under Olaf Tryggvason kill Ealdorman Brihtnoth and defeat the Saxons at Maldon.
1492 Rodrigo Borgia is elected to the papacy as Pope Alexander VI.
1772 Explosive eruption blows 4,000' off Papandayan Java, kills 3,000
1780 Barbados hurricane begins
1835 George B Airy begins 46-year reign as England's Astronomer Royal
1860 Nation's 1st successful silver mill (Virginia City, Nev)
1862 Union General Henry Halleck appointed general in chief of the Union Army.
1866 World's 1st roller rink opens (Newport, RI)
1877 Asaph Hall discovers Mars's moon Deimos
1907 St Louis Card Ed Karger pitches perfect game vs Braves, 4-0 in 7 inn
1909 SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC
1912 Moroccan Sultan Mulai Hafid abdicates his throne in the face of internal dissent
1914 Jews are expelled from Mitchenick Poland
1916 Russian army captures Stanislau, Poland, from the Germans
1918 Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allies defeat Germans ("the black day of the German Army in the history of the war."- General Erich Ludendorff)
1919 Green Bay Packers football club founded
1926 Cleve Indian Tris Speaker hits his 700th double
1929 Babe Ruth becomes 1st to hit 500 homers
1933 Temp reaches 136ø F at San Luis Potos¡, Mex (world record)
1934 1st federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in SF Bay
1942 Vichy government official Pierre Laval publicly declares that "the hour of liberation for France is the hour when Germany wins the war."
1942 U-73 attacks and sinks the HMS Eagle
1945 Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito
1948 Summer Olympics opens in London
1949 1st Naples-Capri swim, 17 miles (27 km) (Giovanni Gambi)
1950 Boston Brave Vern Bickford no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 7-0
1951 1st color baseball game (Braves vs Dodgers) telecast (WCBS-NYC)
1952 Hussein proclaimed king of Jordan
1954 Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ yrs of fighting in Indochina between French & Communist Vietminh
1956 Elvis Presley releases "Don't Be Cruel"
1960 Chad declares independence
1961 Warren Spahn records victory #300, beats Cubs 2-1
1962 Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3
1962 Beach Boys release "Surfin' Safari"
1963 The Kingston Trio are the mystery guest on "What's My Line?"
1964 Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" opens in NYC
1964 Race riot in Paterson NJ
1965 6 day riot starts in Watts section of Los Angeles
1965 Beatles movie "Help" opens in NYC
1966 Last Beatle concert tour of the US begins
1967 Al Downing becomes 12th to strike-out side on 9 pitches
1968 The Beatles launch the "Apple Records" label
1970 Jim Bunning becomes 2nd (Cy Young) to win 100 games in both leagues
1970 Tony Perez becomes the 1st to hit a HR in the red seats at Riverfront
1971 Construction begins on the Louisiana Superdome
1971 Harmon Killebrew hits HRs #500 & 501
1972 The last U.S. ground forces withdraw from Vietnam.
1972 "Cheech & Chong Day" in San Antonio Texas
1974 Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey)
1974 Lee Trevino wins PGA championship
1975 US vetoes proposed admission of North & South Vietnam to UN
1976 Keith Moon, drummer for the Who, collapses & is hospitalized in Miami
1978 Funeral of Pope Paul VI
1979 28ø F in Embarrass Minnesota(more proof of global warming)
1980 Reggie Jackson hits his 400th homer
1984 Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat, wins 4 Olym track golds
1984 Cincinatti Reds retire Johnny Bench's #5 uniform
1984 During a radio voice test Pres Reagan joked he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes"
1985 Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz
1985 Hubert Green wins PGA championship
1985 Oakland A's Dave Kingman becomes the 21st to hit 400 HR
1985 Rudolf Povarnitsin of USSR sets new high jump world record (7'10"12)
1986 Bob Tway wins PGA championship
1988 Meir Kahane renounced US citizenship to stay in Israeli Parliament
1989 "Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child" premiers
1989 Voyager 2 discovers 2 partial rings of Neptune
1990 Egypt & Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion
1990 NY Yankee Kevin Maas is fastest to get 13 HRs (110 at bats)
1991 John Daly, rookie golfer wins the PGA title
1991 Shite Muslims release US hostage Edward Tracy
1991 Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) lands
1992 The Mall of America, the biggest shopping mall in the country, opens in Bloomington, Minn.
1993 President Clinton names Army Gen. John Shalikashvili to be the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, succeeding the retiring Gen. Colin Powell
1999 Total eclipse of the sun in the UK
1999 Buford O. Furrow Jr., a white supremacist,surrenders to the FBI in Las Vegas and confessed to wounding 5 people in LA and killing mail carrier Joseph Ileto (39). He said that he wanted his act to be "a wakeup call to America to kill Jews."
(thank you so much for the advice Buford (you POS!), rest assured we will give it all the consideration it deserves....FLUUUUUUSH)
2000 Pat Buchanan wins the Reform Party’s presidential nomination and named Ezola Foster (62), a black former teacher, as his running mate.
2003 Hambali (39), an Indonesian whose real name is Riduan Isamuddin, was captured in a raid in the ancient temple city of Ayutthaya, Thailand. Hambali, the operational head of Jemaah Islamiyah, was handed over to US authorities and flown out of the country. He was al Qaeda's top man in Southeast Asia and the suspected mastermind behind a string of deadly bombings including the Bali attacks
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Central African Republic, Chad : Independence Day (1960)
Jordan : Coronation Day/Accession of King Hussein
Zambia : Youth Day ( Monday )
Yukon : Klondike Gold Day (1896) ( Friday )
Don't Wait...Celebrate Week (Day 4)
Son and Daughter Day
Psychic Month
Religious Observances
RC : Commemoration of SS Tiburtius & Susanna, martyrs
Ang, old RC, RC : Memorial of St Clare, virgin, Abbess at Assisi
Religious History
1775 Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'Scriptural faith is a very different thing from a rational assent to the Gospel. Christ is not only the object, but the Author and Finisher of faith.'
1914 Birth of Lee Shelley, missions pioneer. In 1957 he founded Christians in Action Missions in Huntington Park, California an interdenominational agency working overseas in evangelism, church planting and missionary training.
1930 In Toledo, Ohio, three Lutheran synods merged to form the American Lutheran Church. (In 1960 the ALC merged with two other branches of Evangelical Lutheranism, and in 1988 joined with a third Lutheran group to form the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ELCA.)
1933 Birth of Jerry Falwell, U.S. Baptist clergyman. Pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, he has also been an active political lobbyist and once headed the Liberty Federation (formerly called Moral Majority), a Christian lobby which Falwell founded in 1979.
1968 Presbyterian apologist Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: 'We live in an abnormal world and all kinds of things do exist, but this does not make them right.'
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
New bikini will stop sunburn
August 11, 2005
From: Agence France-Presse
A BIKINI which bleeps every 15 minutes to prevent holidaymakers from sleeping in the sun is to be shown off in Britain today.
The invention could stop the traditional ghastly seaside sight of bright-red Britons on beaches across the world.
New Look, Britain's third-biggest women's clothes retailer, was to launch the Tan-Timer Bikini on Brighton beach on the south coast.
About 59 per cent of Britons admit to nodding off in the sun, so the electronic device, which attaches to the swimsuit, bleeps every quarter of an hour to remind dozy Brits to wake up and seek shade or roll over to toast the other side.
The bikini is to hit stores across the country next week.
"As well as the health implication of over-exposing your skin to the sun, burnt or peeling skin is not a good look for the image-conscious," New Look's marketing director, Hash Ladha, said.
"With 56 per cent of men finding sunburnt peeling skin unattractive, we hope the Tan-Timer Bikini will help our customers avoid that mistake and feel confident when slipping on their summer dresses."
A spokeswoman for the company said a male version could be in the pipeline.
Thought for the day :
"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."
Steve Wozniak
