Today in History December 11 359 - Honoratus, first known Prefect of the City of Constantinople, takes office. 384 - St Damasus I dies and ends his reign as Catholic Pope. Began reign 366 1282 - Llywelyn ab Gruffydd/Llywelyn the Last (b. c.1228), the last native Prince of Wales, is killed at Cilmeri, near Builth Wells, south Wales. Reigned from 1259 1419 - Heretic Nicolaas Serrurier exiled from Florence 1477 - Duchess Maria of Burgundy ends the Great Privilege 1572 - Spanish troops begin siege of Haarlem 1602 - A surprise attack by forces under the command of the Duke of Savoy and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain, is repelled by the citizens of Geneva. Commemorations/celebrations on Fête de lEscalade are usually held on December 11 or the closest weekend. 1618 - Russia & Poland signs Peace treaty of Dailino 1620 - 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (12/21 NS) Military Leader of Plymouth Colony Myles StandishMilitary Leader of Plymouth Colony Myles Standish 1620 - Myles Standish and a group of 18 settlers are attacked by 30 Native Americans, which became known as the First Encounter 1665 - Messiah Sjabtai Tswi festival in Smyrna 1688 - King James II captured in Kent. 1710 - Battle of Villa Viciosa (France beat Habsburgers) 1719 - 1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in north American colonies (New England) 1730 - Voltaires Brutus premieres in Paris 1792 - Frances King Louis XVI goes on trial, accused of high treason and crimes against the state 1812 - 1st newspaper on Curacao (Curacao Gazette & Commercial Advertiser) 1816 - Citizens of Geneva thwarted Savoyard invaders French Enlightenment Philosopher VoltaireFrench Enlightenment Philosopher Voltaire 1816 - Indiana becomes 19th state of the Union 1844 - 1st dental use of nitrous oxide, Hartford, Ct 1866 - 1st yacht race across Atlantic Ocean 1872 - 1st black US govenor took office, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (La) 1882 - Bostons Bijou Theatre, 1st American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, 1st performance, Gilbert & Sullivans Iolanthe 1882 - Victorien Sardous Fedora with Sarah Bernhardt, premieres in Paris 1888 - French Panama Canal Company fails 1893 - 11 fishing ships wash up at Wadden Sea, 22 killed 1901 - Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian electrical inventor, sends the first transatlantic radio signal Inventor and Nobel Laureate Guglielmo MarconiInventor and Nobel Laureate Guglielmo Marconi 1902 - The US signs a treaty with Cuba allowing for a 20 percent reduction of tariff rates on imported Cuban products 1903 - British forces under MacDonald & Young march into Tibet 1905 - 120°F (49°C), Rivadavia, Argentina (South American record) 1905 - British government of Campbell-Bannerman forms 1905 - A workers uprising occurs, establishing the Shuliavka Republic in Kiev. 1906 - US president Teddy Roosevelt attacks abuses in the Congo 1907 - New Zealand Parliament Buildings almost completely destroyed by fire. 1908 - Frederick Delius In a Summer Garden premieres 1909 - Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, NYC 1909 - Canadian Football exhibition game played in Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, Hamilton Tigers beat Ottawa Rough Riders, 11-6 before 15,000 1913 - Mona Lisa, stolen from the Louvre Museum in 1911, recovered 1914 - Stockton Street Tunnel (SF) completed 1916 - David Lloyd George forms British war government 1917 - 13 black soldiers hanged for participation in Houston riot 1917 - German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia 1919 - Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise, Alabama 1925 - Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quas Primas 1926 - Josephine Baker goes up in Amsterdam 1926 - Queensland win their 1st Sheffield Shield cricket match, v NSW 31st US President Herbert Hoover31st US President Herbert Hoover 1928 - Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on Pres-elect Herbert Hoover 1928 - NL Pres John Heydler proposes designated hitter for pitchers 1930 - Bank of the United States closes in New York City 1931 - Japan leaves the Gold Standard 1931 - Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland (Free State), and Newfoundland (which was not at that time part of Canada) 1932 - San Franciscos coldest day (27°F) - it snows 1934 - 1935 All-Star Game is assigned to Cleveland 1934 - 1st Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher unsuccessful vs Rangers 1934 - Ford C Frick becomes president of baseballs National League 1934 - NL votes to permit night baseball (up to 7 games per home team) Duchess of Windsor Wallis SimpsonDuchess of Windsor Wallis Simpson 1936 - Edward VIII announces in a radio broadcast that he is abdicating the British throne to marry Wallis Simpson 1937 - 25th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 30-7 1937 - Italy withdraws from League of Nations 1938 - NY Giants win NFL championship 1939 - New anti-Jewish measures proclaimed in Poland 1940 - Russian general Zhukov warns of German assault 1941 - Dutch government in London declares war on Italy 1941 - Germany & Italy declare war on USA 1941 - Giants acquire Johnny Mize from Cards for 3 players & $50,000 1941 - Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WW II-landing) 1941 - Japanese occupy Guam 1942 - Australian/Dutch guerrilla troops evacuated to Timor near Australia 1944 - Surprise attack on House of Keeping Axe, 29 prisoners freed 1945 - Het Parool publishes 1st Captain Rob-strip Country Music Singer and Songwriter Hank WilliamsCountry Music Singer and Songwriter Hank Williams 1946 - Hank Williams begins to record on Sterling label 1946 - Spain suspended from UN 1946 - UN Childrens Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965) 1947 - Bob Hilliard/Carl Sigmans musical Angel in the Wings opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 308 performances 1947 - Pacific Coast League application for major league status rejected 1948 - WHEN (now WTVH) TV channel 5 in Syracuse, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting 1948 - WMC TV channel 5 in Memphis, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting 1949 - Chic Bear Johnny Lujack passes for 6 touchdowns vs Chic Cards (52-29) 1949 - Cleveland Browns beat SF 49ers 21-7 in final AAFC championship game 1949 - WOAI (now KMOL) TV channel 4 in San Antonio, TX (NBC) 1st broadcast 1950 - Baseball owners vote 9-7 not to renew Commissioner Chandlers contract 1950 - Hindemiths Concerto for clarinet, premieres Baseball Player Joe DiMaggioBaseball Player Joe DiMaggio 1951 - Joe DiMaggio announces his baseball retirement 1953 - KTVA TV channel 11 in Anchorage (CBS) becomes Alaskas 1st TV station 1954 - Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium 1954 - USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va 1956 - Anti-Russian demonstrates in Stettin & Wroclaw Poland 1958 - 4th (last) Dutch government of Drees falls 1958 - Archibald MacLeishs JB premieres in NYC 1958 - Upper Volta (now Bourkina Faso) gains autonomy from France 1959 - Yanks trade Marv Thronberry, Don Larsen, Hank Bauer & Norm Seibern for Roger Maris, Kent Hadley & Joe Deaestri 1959 - Emilio G. Segrè publishes his discovery of the antiproton, a sub-atomic antiparticle for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959 Physicist and Nobel Laureate Emilio G. SegrèPhysicist and Nobel Laureate Emilio G. Segrè 1960 - Black Sunday - Riot in Algiers, 114 die 1960 - Coleman/Leighs musical Wildcat with Lucille Ball premieres in NYC 1960 - Clevelands Bernie Parrish sets club record for longest interception return with a 92 yard run 1961 - Please, Mr. Postman by Marvelettes released 1961 - Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes in Israel 1961 - Elvis Presleys Blue Hawaii album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 20 wks 1961 - JFK provides US miltary helicopters & crews to South Vietnam 1964 - Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. An unknown terrorist fires a mortar shell at the building during the speech. Argentine Revolutionary Che GuevaraArgentine Revolutionary Che Guevara 1965 - Anya closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 16 performances 1965 - Yearling closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 3 performances 1966 - Al Nelson sets NFL record returning missed field goal, 100 yards 1967 - 6.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed 1967 - Beatles Apple Music signs its 1st group-Grapefruit 1967 - Peoples front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) established 1967 - Supersonic airliner prototype Concorde 1st shown (France) 1968 - KECC (now KECY) TV channel 9 in El Centro, CA (CBS) 1st broadcast 1968 - US Soccer Football Association refuses to let NASL disband 1968 - Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence ONeill sacks Home Affairs Minister, William Craig 1969 - Libya adopts constitution 1970 - Start of the 1st Test match at the WACA, v England 1970 - Test Cricket debut of Gregory Stephen Chappell 1971 - The Libertarian Party of the United States is formed. 1971 - A bomb explodes outside a furniture showroom on the mainly-Protestant and loyalist Shankill Road, Belfast; four civilians (including two babies) were killed and nineteen wounded 1972 - Astronauts Cernan & Harrison become 11th & 12th on Moon 1972 - Jets Don Maynard becomes all time pro reception leader (632) 1973 - Houston Astro Caesar Cedino jailed in death of 19 year old woman 1973 - NA Soccer League awards LA, SF, Seattle & Vancouver franchises 1973 - Ron Santo becomes 1st to invoke no-trade clause of 10-year-1-club vet 1973 - West German chancellor Willy Brandt normalizes trade with Czech 1975 - US 1st class postage rises from 10 cents to 13 cents MLB Second Baseman and Manager Willie RandolphMLB Second Baseman and Manager Willie Randolph 1975 - Great Yankee trade getting Willie Randolph, Dock Ellis & Ken Brett from Pirates for George Doc Medich 1977 - Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams, leaders of the group Peace People (an organisation dedicated to encouraging a peaceful resolution of the Troubles in Northern Ireland) receive the Nobel Peace Prize 1978 - 6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at NY Kennedy Airport & made off with $5.8 M in cash & jewelry 1979 - Geoff Boycott scores cricket century in a limited-over international 1979 - Great Britain grants independence to Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) 1980 - Dirk Wellham scores 100 on 1st-class debut, NSW v Victoria 1980 - The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (known as either CERCLA or Superfund) is enacted by the U.S. Congress. 1981 - Argentine president/gen Roberto Viola flees Heavyweight Boxing Champion Muhammad AliHeavyweight Boxing Champion Muhammad Ali 1981 - Muhammad Alis 61st & last fight, losing to Trevor Berbick 1981 - Perus Javier Perez de Cuellar becomes sec-gen of UN 1981 - Spacelab I arrives at Kennedy Space Center 1981 - UN Secrity Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as 5th Sec Genl 1981 - Wash Capitals biggest margin of victory (9) beating Toronto 11-2 1981 - El Mozote massacre: Salvadoran armed forces kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the countrys civil war. 1983 - 1st visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome) 1983 - 72nd Australian Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (61 64 64) Golfer and Masters Champion Fred CouplesGolfer and Masters Champion Fred Couples 1983 - Jan Stephens/Fred Couples wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic 1984 - Doug Henning & His World... opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 60 perf 1984 - Mauretania military coup under Col Maawiya Ould Sidahmed Taya 1985 - Computer store owner in Sacramento California killed by package bomb 1985 - Dow Jones closes above 1,500 for 1st time (1,511.70) 1985 - General Electric acquires RCA Corp & its subsidiary, NBC 1985 - NHL Record 62 points scored, Edmonton (36) beats Chicago (26) 12-9 & ties record of 21 goals 1986 - A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseballs National League 1986 - South Africa censors press 1987 - Test debut of Carl Hooper, WI v India at Bombay 1989 - City of Angels opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 878 performances 1989 - Mark Davis signs record $3.25 million per year KC Royals contract 1990 - 13 die in 83 vehicle accident in Chattanooga Tn I-75, due to fog 1990 - US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) returns from space 1991 - William Kennedy Smith found not guilty of rape 1992 - Noreaster storm hits NY, doing $ Billion worth of damage 1992 - WNEW AM radio on 1130 in NYC ends transmitting after 58 years 1993 - 59th Heisman Trophy Award: Charlie Ward, Florida State (QB) 1993 - Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile LPGA Golfer Kelly RobbinsLPGA Golfer Kelly Robbins 1994 - Kelly Robbins & Tammie Green wins LPGA Diners Club Golf Matches 1994 - Russian troops enter Chechnya 1995 - Thomas O Hicks buys NHL Dallas Stars for $84 million 1997 - Sunshine Boys opens at Lyceum Theater NYC 1997 - Federal judge orders Microsoft not to bundle IE4 in Windows 1997 - Delegates from 150 industrial nations attending a United Nations climate conference in Kyoto, Japan, reach agreement on a protocol to control heat-trapping greenhouse gases; the protocol commita nations to roll back greenhouse gase emissions below 1990 levels 1998 - Thai Airways Airbus A310-200 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101 2001 - The Peoples Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization. NHL Legend Joe SakicNHL Legend Joe Sakic 2003 - Joe Sakic scores his 500th career goal at Vancouver 2005 - The Buncefield Oil Depot in Hemel Hempstead, England, is rocked by explosions, causing a huge oil fire. 2005 - Cronulla riots: thousands of white Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence, resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese (and many who were not) in Cronulla Sydney. These are followed by ethnic attacks on Cronulla. 2006 - The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. 2007 - Two car bombs go off at the Constitutional Court building in Algiers and the United Nations office. An estimated 45 people are killed in the bombings. Iran President Mahmoud AhmadinejadIran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 2008 - Bernard Madoff arrested and charged with securities fraud in $50 billion Ponzi scheme 2009 - Tiger Woods announced an indefinite leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage. 2010 - Two explosions occur in a busy shopping district of Stockholm, Sweden, killing one and injuring two others. Officials say the incident is being treated as a terrorist attack. 2012 - 125 people are killed and 200 are injured by bombings in Aqrab, Syria 2012 - HSBC bank settles with US authorities to pay $1.9 billion for drug cartel money laundering 2012 - British physicist, Stephen Hawking, wins the $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize, the most lucrative academic prize in the world Physicist Stephen HawkingPhysicist Stephen Hawking 2013 - Pope Francis is named Time magazines person of the year 2013 - 20 people are killed by the bubonic plague in a small Madagascan village
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