{"id":23018,"date":"2020-08-11T03:26:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T21:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=23018"},"modified":"2020-08-11T18:09:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T12:39:55","slug":"history-of-11-august-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-11-august-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 11 August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>1990 &#8211; Egyptian and Moroccan troops\njoined&nbsp;U.S.&nbsp;forces in Saudia Arabia to help protect from a possible\nIraqi attack.<\/li><li>1991 &#8211; The space shuttle&nbsp;<em>Atlantis<\/em>&nbsp;ended\nits nine-day journey by landing safely.<\/li><li>1992 &#8211; In Bloomington,&nbsp;MN, the\nMall of America opened. It was the largest shopping mall in the&nbsp;United\nStates.<\/li><li>1994 &#8211; The Tenth International\nConference on AIDS ended in Japan.<\/li><li>1994 &#8211; A&nbsp;U.S.&nbsp;federal jury\nawarded $286.8 million to about 10,000 commercial fishermen for losses as a\nresult of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.<\/li><li>1995 &#8211; All&nbsp;U.S.&nbsp;nuclear\ntests were banned by President Clinton.<\/li><li>1997 &#8211;&nbsp;U.S. President\nClinton&nbsp;made the first use of the line-item veto approved by Congress,\nrejecting three items in spending and tax bills.<\/li><li>1998 &#8211; British Petroleum became No.\n3 among oil companies with the $49 billion purchase of Amoco. It was the\nlargest foreign takeover of a&nbsp;U.S.&nbsp;company.<\/li><li>2002 &#8211; US Airways announced that it\nhad filed for bankruptcy.<\/li><li>2002 &#8211; Jason Priestly crashed his\ncar during practice for a race in the Infiniti Pro Series. He suffered a spinal\nfracture, a moderate concussion, a broken nose, facial lacerations and broken\nbones in both feet.<\/li><li>2003 &#8211; Charles Taylor, President of\nLiberia, flew into exile after ceding power to his vice president, Moses Blah.<\/li><li>2003 &#8211; In Kabul, NATO took command\nof the 5,000-strong peacekeeping force in Afghanistan. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>2006&nbsp;\u2013      The&nbsp;oil tanker&nbsp;MT&nbsp;<em>Solar 1<\/em>&nbsp;sinks off the coast      of&nbsp;Guimaras&nbsp;and&nbsp;Negros&nbsp;Islands in      the&nbsp;Philippines, causing the country&#8217;s&nbsp;worst oil spill.<\/li><li>2012&nbsp;\u2013      At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in&nbsp;a pair of      earthquakes&nbsp;near&nbsp;Tabriz, Iran.<\/li><li>2017&nbsp;\u2013      At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger      trains&nbsp;collide&nbsp;in&nbsp;Alexandria,&nbsp;Egypt.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Celebrating Birthday Today <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>1981&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Daniel Poohl, Swedish journalist<\/li><li>1983&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor<\/li><li>1983 \u2013&nbsp;Luke Lewis, Australian rugby league player<\/li><li>1983 \u2013&nbsp;Pavel 183, Russian painter (d. 2013)<\/li><li>1984&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Melky Cabrera, Dominican baseball player<\/li><li>1984 \u2013&nbsp;Lucas di Grassi, Brazilian race car driver<\/li><li>1985&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Jacqueline Fernandez, Sri Lankan actress<\/li><li>1986&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Mokhtar Benmoussa, Algerian footballer<\/li><li>1986 \u2013&nbsp;Pablo Sandoval, Venezuelan baseball player<\/li><li>1987&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Dany N&#8217;Guessan, French footballer<\/li><li>1987 \u2013&nbsp;Drew Storen, American baseball player<\/li><li>1988&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Rabeh Al-Hussaini, Filipino basketball player<\/li><li>1988 \u2013&nbsp;Patty Mills, Australian basketball player<\/li><li>1988 \u2013&nbsp;Mustafa Pektemek, Turkish footballer<\/li><li>1989&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Junior Heffernan, Irish cyclist and triathlete (d. 2013)<\/li><li>1989 \u2013&nbsp;Sebastian Huke, German footballer<\/li><li>1990&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Lenka Jur\u00edkov\u00e1, Slovak tennis player<\/li><li>1991&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Cristian Tello, Spanish footballer<\/li><li>1994&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Storm Sanders, Australian tennis player<\/li><li>1994 \u2013&nbsp;Anton Cooper, New Zealand cross-country cyclist<\/li><li>1994 \u2013&nbsp;Joseph Barbato, French footballer<\/li><li>1997&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Sarah Clelland, Scottish footballer<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/August_11#cite_note-7\">[<\/a><\/sup><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1990 &#8211; Egyptian and Moroccan troops joined&nbsp;U.S.&nbsp;forces in Saudia Arabia to help protect from a possible Iraqi attack. 1991 &#8211; The space shuttle&nbsp;Atlantis&nbsp;ended its nine-day journey by landing safely. 1992 &#8211; In Bloomington,&nbsp;MN, the Mall of America opened. It was the largest shopping mall in the&nbsp;United States. 1994 &#8211; The Tenth International Conference on AIDS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2509,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[83,1349,1325],"class_list":{"0":"post-23018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-history","9":"tag-history-of-11-august","10":"tag-today-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-5Zg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23018","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=23018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23020,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23018\/revisions\/23020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}