11 de augusto

Eventos 
 480 aEC: Persia sub Xerxes vince contra Sparta sub le Rege Leonidas in le Battalia del Thermopylas. Le spartanos lucta usque le ultime homine.
 1918: Prime Guerra Mundial: Le Battalia de Amiens termina 
 1919: Constitution del Republica Weimar adoptate
 1934: Inauguration del prision federal american in le insula de Alcatraz
 1943: Secunde Guerra Mundial: Prime Conferentia a Quebec de Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, T. V. Soong e William Lyon Mackenzie King comencia.
 1948: Jocos Olympic comencia in London
 1952: Hussein es proclamate le rege de Jordania
 1960: Tchad declara su independentia 
 1965: Le initio de demonstrationes racial in le area Watts de Los Angeles in California
 1966: John Lennon se excusa in un communicato de pressa ab le "affaire de Jesus" 
 1970: Patente pro le "spork" per le "Van Brode Milling Company"
 1972: Le ultime del unitates de combatto del armea del Statos Unite sorti de Vietnam del Sud

 Nascentias 
 1718: Sir Frederick Haldimand, soldato professional 
 1807: David Rice Atchison, politico american († 1886)
 1902: Lloyd Nolan, actor († 1982)
 1902: Alfredo Binda, cyclista italian († 1986)
 1905: Erwin Chargaff, biochimico († 2002)
 1921: Alex Haley, historico, novellista († 1992)
 1925: Carl Rowan, jornalista
 1932: Fernando Arrabal, dramaturgo, novellista
 1933: Jerry Falwell, predicator Christian e politico american
 1943: Abigail Folger, herede del Caffe 
 1946: Marilyn vos Savant, columnista de periodico
 1950: Steve Wozniak, pionero del computator personal
 1953: Hulk Hogan (Terry Gene Bollea), luctator professional de wrestling-american
 1954: Joe Jackson, cantator
 1954: Juan Maria Solare, compositor de musica e pianista

 Mortes 
 1919: Andrew Carnegie, industrial
 1937: Edith Wharton, autor
 1953: Tazio Nuvolari, conductor in auto-carrieras
 1956: Jackson Pollock, artista
 1977: Frederick Williams, inventor del tubo de mercurio
 2014: Robin Williams, actor statosunite

 Dies festive