1909<\/strong> – The American ship Arapahoe<\/i> became the first to ever use the SOS distress signal off the coast of Cape Hatteras, NC.<\/p>\n 1924<\/strong> – Newsreel pictures were taken of U.S. presidential candidates for the first time.<\/p>\n 1934<\/strong> – Alcatraz, in San Francisco Bay, received federal prisoners for the first time.<\/p>\n 1941<\/strong> – The Atlantic Charter was signed by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong> – During World War II, Pierre Laval publicly announced: “the hour of liberation for France is the hour when Germany wins the war.”<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> – The Allies informed Japan that they would determine Emperor Hirohito’s future status after Japan’s surrender.<\/p>\n 1951<\/strong> – The first major league baseball game to be televised in color was broadcast. The Brooklyn Dodgers defeated the Boston Braves 8-1.<\/p>\n 1954<\/strong> – Seven years of fighting came to an end in Indochina. A formal peace was in place for the French and the Communist Vietminh.<\/p>\n 1962<\/strong> – Andrian Nikolayev, of the Soviet Union, was launched on a 94-hour flight. He was the third Russian to go into space.<\/p>\n 1965<\/strong> – The U.S. conducted a second launch of “Surveyor-SD 2” for a landing on the Moon surface test.<\/p>\n 1975<\/strong> – The U.S. vetoed the proposed admission of North and South Vietnam to the United Nations. The Security Council had already refused to consider South Korea’s application.<\/p>\n 1984<\/strong> – Carl Lewis won his fourth gold medal in the 1984 Summer Olympics.<\/p>\n 1984<\/strong> – U.S. President Ronald Reagan was preparing for his weekly radio broadcast when, during testing of the microphone, the President said of the Soviet Union, “My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you that I just signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”<\/p>\n 1984<\/strong> – The Cincinnati Reds honored major league All-Star and Hall of Fame catcher Johnny Bench by retiring his uniform (#5).<\/p>\n 1988<\/strong> – Dick Thornburgh was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate to be the next attorney general. He succeeded Edwin Meese III.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – Egyptian and Moroccan troops joined U.S. forces in Saudia Arabia to help protect from a possible Iraqi attack.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – The space shuttle Atlantis<\/i> ended its nine-day journey by landing safely.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – In Bloomington, MN, the Mall of America opened. It was the largest shopping mall in the United States.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – The Tenth International Conference on AIDS ended in Japan.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – A U.S. federal jury awarded $286.8 million to about 10,000 commercial fishermen for losses as a result of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.<\/p>\n 1995<\/strong> – All U.S. nuclear tests were banned by President Clinton.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – U.S. President Clinton made the first use of the line-item veto approved by Congress, rejecting three items in spending and tax bills.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – British Petroleum became No. 3 among oil companies with the $49 billion purchase of Amoco. It was the largest foreign takeover of a U.S. company.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – US Airways announced that it had filed for bankruptcy.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – Jason Priestly crashed his car during practice for a race in the Infiniti Pro Series. He suffered a spinal fracture, a moderate concussion, a broken nose, facial lacerations and broken bones in both feet.<\/p>\n 2003<\/strong> – Charles Taylor, President of Liberia, flew into exile after ceding power to his vice president, Moses Blah.<\/p>\n 2003<\/strong> – In Kabul, NATO took command of the 5,000-strong peacekeeping force in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n 2006<\/strong> \u2013 The oil tanker M\/T Solar 1<\/i> sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country’s worst oil spill.<\/p>\n 2012<\/strong> \u2013 At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.<\/p>\n 2017<\/strong> \u2013 At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger trains collide in Alexandria, Egypt.<\/p>\n History of 11 August 1909 – The American ship Arapahoe became the first to ever use the SOS distress signal off the coast of Cape Hatteras, NC. 1924 – Newsreel pictures were taken of U.S. presidential candidates for the first time. 1934 – Alcatraz, in San Francisco Bay, received federal prisoners for the first time. 1941 – The Atlantic Charter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[844,83,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-11592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-11-august","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-30Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11592"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23599,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11592\/revisions\/23599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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