Tukuk-OS📅 August 11
15 events · 12 births · 12 deaths
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What happened on August 11? Below are the notable events chosen by Wikipedia’s editors for this date, followed by celebrated births, deaths and the observances recognised around the world.
Events
- 2012 — At least 306 people were killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.
- 1999 — A tornado struck downtown Salt Lake City, damaging 120 homes and injuring over 100 people.
- 1999 — Ken Levine's System Shock 2 was released to mediocre sales, but later received critical acclaim and influenced subsequent first-person shooter game design.
Ken Levine (game developer)System Shock 2First-person shooter
- 1992 — The Mall of America (pictured) in Bloomington, Minnesota, opened as the largest shopping mall in the United States.
Mall of AmericaBloomington, MinnesotaList of largest shopping malls in the United States
- 1979 — Two Aeroflot passenger jets collided in mid-air near Dniprodzerzhynsk in the Ukrainian SSR, killing all 178 people on both aircraft.
- 1977 — The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration initiated an investigation into the alleged vulnerability of the Ford Pinto to fuel leakage and fire in a rear-end collision.
- 1975 — The Timorese Democratic Union launched a coup in Portuguese Timor, starting the East Timorese civil war.
Timorese Democratic UnionPortuguese TimorEast Timorese civil war
- 1973 — At a party in New York City, Jamaican musician DJ Kool Herc (pictured) began rapping during an extended break, laying the foundation for hip hop music.
- 1952 — King Talal of Jordan was forced to abdicate due to mental illness and was succeeded by his eldest son, Hussein.
- 1945 — Amid rumors of kidnappings of children by Jews in Kraków, a crowd of Poles took part in a pogrom, resulting in at least one death.
- 1929 — The first Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic, the oldest and largest African-American parade in the United States, was held in Chicago.
- 1786 — Francis Light founded George Town (city hall pictured), the first British settlement in Southeast Asia and the present-day capital of the Malaysian state of Penang.
- 1492 — The first conclave to be held in the Sistine Chapel elected Roderic Borja as Pope Alexander VI to succeed Innocent VIII.
- 1309 — Reconquista: Aragonese forces led by King James II landed on the coast of Almería, beginning an ultimately unsuccessful siege of the city, then held by the Emirate of Granada.
- 106 — The region of Dacia, comprising parts of modern Romania, became a province of the Roman Empire.
Births
- 2002 — Marvin Harrison Jr., American football player
- 2001 — Moyuka Uchijima, Japanese tennis player
- 1999 — Gregoria Mariska Tunjung, Indonesian badminton player
- 1999 — Changbin, South Korean rapper
- 1997 — Sarah Clelland, Scottish footballer
- 1995 — Brad Binder, South African motorcycle racer
- 1994 — Storm Sanders, Australian tennis player
- 1994 — Anton Cooper, New Zealand cross-country cyclist
- 1994 — Joseph Barbato, French footballer
- 1994 — Song I-han, South Korean singer
- 1993 — Alyson Stoner, American actor, singer, and dancer
- 1992 — Tomi Lahren, American conservative political commentator
Deaths
- 2025 — Miguel Uribe Turbay, Colombian precandidate to presidency (born 1986)
- 2025 — Danielle Spencer, American actress (born 1965)
Danielle Spencer (American actress)1965 in the United States
- 2024 — Ángel Salazar, Cuban-American comedian and actor (born 1956)
- 2024 — Noël Treanor, Irish Roman Catholic prelate (born 1950)
- 2023 — Mike Ahern, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of Queensland (born 1942)
- 2022 — Anne Heche, American actress (born 1969)
- 2022 — Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer (born 1926)
- 2020 — Trini Lopez, American singer and guitarist (born 1937)
- 2020 — Sumner Redstone, American billionaire businessman (born 1923)
- 2019 — Sergio Obeso Rivera, Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal (born 1931)
- 2018 — V S Naipaul, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1932)
- 2018 — Terry A. Davis, American computer programmer, creator of TempleOS (born 1969)
Observances & holidays
- Christian Feast Day: Athracht
- Christian Feast Day: Clare of Assisi
- Christian Feast Day: Gaugericus
- Christian Feast Day: John Henry Newman (Church of England)
- Christian Feast Day: Blessed John Sandys and Stephen Rowsham
- Christian Feast Day: Blessed Maurice Tornay
- Christian Feast Day: Philomena
- Christian Feast Day: Susanna
- Christian Feast Day: Taurinus of Évreux
- Christian Feast Day: Tiburtius and Chromatius
- Christian Feast Day: August 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Flag Day (Pakistan)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Chad from France in 1960.
- Mountain Day (Japan)
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