December 11
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December 11 is the 345th day of the year (346th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 20 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Events [change]
- 361 – Julian the Apostate enters Constantinople as the sole Emperor of the Roam Empire.
- 1792 – Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
- 1816 – Indiana becomes the 16th State of the US.
- 1872 – King Kamehameha V of Hawaii dies on his 42nd birthday, ending the line of the Kamehamehas. His cousin, William Charles Lunalilo, succeeds him as King.
- 1907 – The New Zealand Parliament buildings are almost completely destroyed by fire.
- 1931 – The British Parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster, establishing legislative equality between the self-governing Dominions of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the Irish Free State, Newfoundland and the Union of South Africa.
- 1936 – Edward VIII abdicates (resigns) the throne in order to marry his love, Wallis Warfield Simpson, making George VI King.
- 1937 – Italy leaves the League of Nations.
- 1941 – World War II: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States. The US, in turn, declares war on Germany and Italy.
- 1946 – UNICEF is established.
- 1962 – Arthur Lucas becomes the last person to be executed in Canada.
- 1972 – Apollo 17 becomes the last manned mission to land on the Moon.
- 1981 – Armed forces in El Salvador, kill around 900 civilians, in an anti-guerrilla campaign.
- 1994 – Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya.
- 1997 – The Kyoto protocol is opened for signature.
- 1998 – Thai Airways Flight 261 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101 people.
- 2005 – Riots against Lebanese youths happen in Cronulla, a suburb of Sydney, Australia
- 2005 – The Buncefield Oil Depot in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, catches fire.
- 2008 – Bernard Madoff is arrested on fraud charges.
- 2010 – Two bombs explode in central Stockholm, killing 1, and injuring 2.
Births [change]
- 1465 – Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (d. 1489)
- 1475 – Pope Leo X (d. 1521)
- 1566 – Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer (d. 1650)
- 1725 – George Mason, American statesman (d. 1792)
- 1750 – Isaac Shelby, 1st and 5th Governor of Kentucky (d. 1826)
- 1761 – Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (d. 1835)
- 1803 – Hector Berlioz, French composer (d. 1869)
- 1830 – Kamehameha V, King of Hawai'i (d. 1872)
- 1843 – Robert Koch, German doctor, won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1910)
- 1882 – Max Born, German physicist (d. 1970)
- 1882 – Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City (d. 1947)
- 1908 - Elliott Carter, American composer (d. 2012)
- 1908 – Hakun Djurhuus, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 1987)
- 1908 – Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese director
- 1911 – Qian Xuesen, Chinese scientist (d. 2009)
- 1911 – Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer (d. 2006)
- 1912 – Carlo Ponti, Italian movie producer (d. 2007)
- 1913 – Jean Marais, French actor (d. 1998)
- 1918 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer (d. 2008)
- 1919 – Marie Windsor, American actress (d. 2000)
- 1921 – Liz Smith, British actress
- 1921 – Maila Nurmi, Finnish-American actress (d. 2008)
- 1925 – Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist
- 1926 – Big Mama Thornton, American blues singer (d. 1984)
- 1927 – John Buscema, American comic artist (d. 2002)
- 1930 – Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor
- 1933 – Aquilino Pimentel, Jr., politician from the Philippines
- 1935 – Pranab Mukherjee, President of India
- 1938 – Enrico Macias, Algerian-French singer
- 1943 – John Kerry, 68th United States Secretary of State (2013-present)
- 1954 – Jermaine Jackson, American singer
- 1956 – Andrew Lansley, British politician
- 1958 – Nikki Sixx, American musician (Motley Crue)
- 1963 – Mario Been, Dutch footballer
- 1964 – Michel Courtemanche, French Canadian comedian
- 1964 – Franco Ballerini, Italian road racing cyclist (d. 2010)
- 1966 – Goran Kropp, Swedish mountaineer (d. 2002)
- 1968 – Fabrizio Ravanelli, Italian footballer
- 1969 – Viswanathan Anand, Indian chess player and world champion
- 1972 – Sami Al-Jaber, Saudi footballer
- 1974 – Rey Mysterio, Mexican-American professional wrestler
- 1981 – Javier Saviola, Argentine footballer
- 1981 – Mohamed Zidan, Egyptian footballer
- 1981 – Zacky Vengeance, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold)
- 1984 – Leighton Baines, English footballer
- 1996 – Hailee Steinfeld, American actress
Deaths [change]
- 1198 – Averroes, Spanish-Arab philosopher (b. 1126)
- 1241 – Emperor Ogedei of Japan
- 1282 – Prince Llywelyn the Last of Wales
- 1840 – Emperor Kokaku of Japan (b. 1771)
- 1872 – Kamehameha V, King of Hawai'i (b. 1830)
- 1938 – Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian pacifist (b. 1869)
- 1978 – Vincent de Vigneaud, American chemist (b. 1901)
- 1993 – Paul Mebus, German footballer (b. 1920)
- 1997 – Eddie Chapman, British World War II spy (b. 1914)
- 1998 – Max Streibl, German politician (b. 1932)
- 2006 – Elizabeth Bolden, American supercentenarian (b. 1890)
- 2008 – Bettie Page, American model (b. 1923)
- 2012 - Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian operatic soprano (b. 1926)
- 2012 - Ravi Shankar, Indian sitarist (b. 1920)
Observances [change]
- Republic Day (Burkina Faso)
- Indiana Day
- International Mountain Day
- Human Rights and Peace Day (Kiribati)
