11 December

The **11t o December** is the 345t day o the year (346t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 20 days bidin.

## Events

* 1792 - Louis XVI o Fraunce is put on trial bi the Naitional Convention.
* 1816 - Indiana becomes the 16t state o the Unitit States.
* 1872 - King Kamehameha V o Hawaii dees on his 42nt birthday, endin the line o the Kamehamehas.
* 1907 - New Zealand's pairlament biggins are awmaist completely destroyed bi fire.
* 1931 - The Statute o Wastmeenster gives mair pouers tae Dominions within the Commonweel o Nations.
* 1936 - Edward VIII abdicates as King o the Unitit Kinrick. George VI taks the throne.
* 1941 - Warld War II: The Unitit States enters the war.
* 1941 - Warld War II: Germany an Italy declare war on the Unitit States.
* 1958 - Upper Volta (nou Burkina Faso) an Dahomey (nou Benin) get self-govrenment.
* 1972 - Apollo 17 becomes the last mission tae laund on the Muin tae date.
* 1981 - Muhammad Ali loses the last professional boxin fecht o his career, agin Trevor Berbick.
* 1990 - 99 vehicles are involved in a road traffic accident in Tennessee; 11 fowk are kilt an 65 injured.
* 1995 - Lithuanie applies tae jyn the European Union.
* 1997 - The Kyoto Protocol is feenalisit.
* 1999 - Turkey applies tae jyn the European Union.
* 2005 - A massive fire breaks oot at the Buncefield Ile Depot in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, Ingland.
* 2010 - An attemptit terrorist attack in Stockholm results in the daith o the perpetrator when the splosive device detonates.
* 2016 - Preses o Italy Sergio Mattarella nominates Paolo Gentiloni tae form a govrenment.
* 2019 - Test cricket returns tae Pakistan ower ten year efter an attack on the Sri Lankan team.
* 2019 - It is propaled that a majority o voters in the Autonomous Region o Bougainville, which includes Bougainville Island, hae votit for unthirldom frae Papua New Guinea.
* 2019 - Time magazine names Greta Thunberg as its Person o the Year for 2019; she is the youngest person ever tae be named as such.
* 2020 - Time magazine names Joe Biden an Kamala Harris as jynt Person o the Year for 2020.

## Births

* 1475 - Pape Leo X (d. 1521)
* 1764 - Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet, Scots merchant, sclave awner an politeecian (d. 1851)
* 1781 - David Brewster, Scots polymath (d. 1868)
* 1803 - Hector Berlioz, French componer (d. 1869)
* 1810 - Alfred de Musset, French dramatist, poet an novelist (d. 1857)
* 1830 - Kamehameha V, King o Hawaii (d. 1872)
* 1843 - Robert Koch, German medicinar an biologist (d. 1910)
* 1882 - Max Born, German pheesicist (d. 1970)
* 1901 - Dave Halliday, Scots fitbawer (d. 1970)
* 1905 - Erskine Hamilton Childers, Preses o the Republic o Ireland (d. 1974)
* 1908 - Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese film director (d. 2015)
* 1911 - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer (d. 2006)
* 1918 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Roushie writer (d. 2008)
* 1930 - Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor
* 1931 - Rita Moreno, Puerto Rican-born actress
* 1931 - Rajneesh, Indie spiritual leader (d. 1990)
* 1935 - Pranab Mukherjee, Preses o Indie (d. 2020)
* 1941 - Max Baucus, American senator an diplomat
* 1943 - John Kerry, 68t Unitit States Secretar o State
* 1956 - Andrew Lansley, Inglis politeecian
* 1958 - Nikki Sixx, American muisicker an bassist, memmer o Mötley Crüe
* 1967 - Mo'Nique, American actress an comedian
* 1968 - Emmanuelle Charpentier, French scientist an Nobel laureate
* 1969 - Viswanathan Anand, Indie chess player
* 1981 - Javier Saviola, Argentine fitbawer
* 1986 - Kris Doolan, Scots fitbawer
* 1993 - Yalitza Aparicio, Mexican actress
* 1993 - Cameron Smith, Scots curler
* 1996 - Hailee Steinfeld, American actress an sangster

## Daiths
* 384 - Pape Damasus I
* 1872 - Kamehameha V, King o Hawaii (b. 1830)
* 1938 - Christian Lous Lange, Norse pacifist (b. 1869)
* 1959 - Willie Kyle, Scots rugby union player (b. 1881)
* 2012 - Galina Vishnevskaya, Roushie soprano (b. 1926)
* 2012 - Ravi Shankar, Indie sitar player (b. 1920) 
* 2019 - Ian Young, Scots fitbawer (b. 1943)

## Halidays

* Republic Day (Burkina Faso)
* Indiana Day
* Naitional Tango Day (Argentinae)
* Internaitional Muntain Day