On this day: 11 December
Events, births and deaths on 11 December. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
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100 years ago1926
- Births · Big Mama Thornton
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Within 100 years of that
- 1121 · Deaths · Al-Afdal Shahanshah
Events · 31
- 1282(Julian date)Battle of Orewin Bridge — 1282 battle
- 1789University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
- 1815United States Senate Committee on Finance — standing committee of the United States Senate
- 1816Indiana — state of the United States of America
- 1862Battle of Fredericksburg — 1862 major battle of the American Civil War
- 1868Battle of Avay — 1868 battle of the Paraguayan War
- 1899Battle of Magersfontein — 1899 battle of the Second Boer War
- 1920Burning of Cork — event during the Irish War of Independence
- 1927Guangzhou Uprising — failed Communist uprising in Guangzhou, China
- 1929Baise Uprising — Uprising in the Chinese Civil War
- 1931Commonwealth of Nations — political association of mostly former British Empire territories
- 1946UNICEF — specialised agency of the United Nations
- 1948United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194 — United Nations General Assembly resolution adopted in 1948
- 1958Republic of Upper Volta — former country (1958–1984) in West Africa
- 1978Lufthansa heist — robbery
- 1981El Mozote massacre — 1981 mass casualty event perpetrated by the Salvadoran army
- 19881988 Soviet Air Force Il-76 crash — aviation accident in Soviet Armenia
- 19931993 Highland Towers collapse — 1993 apartment building collapse in Malaysia
- 1994First Chechen War — war fought from 1994 to 1996 in Chechnya
- 1994Philippine Airlines Flight 434 — flight on December 11, 1994 that was damaged by a bomb
- 1997Kyoto Protocol — international treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- 1998Thai Airways International Flight 261 — aviation accident
- 1999SATA Air Açores Flight 530M — 1999 aviation incident
- 2002International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers — UN world day
- 2005Buncefield fire — conflagration, resulting from explosions at the Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal on 11 December 2005
- 2006Mexican drug war — asymmetric war between the Mexican Government and various drug trafficking syndicates
- 2006International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust — 2006 conference of Holocaust deniers and skeptics in Tehran, Iran
- 2006Operation Michoacán — anti-drug effort in Mexico
- 2007December 11, 2007 Algiers bombings — terrorist attacks
- 2012Aqrab massacre — terrorist attack in Aqrab, Syria
- 20172017 Port Authority Bus Terminal explosion — attempted suicide bombing at the Port Authority Bus Terminal on December 11, 2017
Births · 60
- 1475(Julian date)Leo X — pope from 1513 to 1521 (1475-1521)
- 1725George Mason — American delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (1725-1792)
- 1781David Brewster — Scottish astronomer and mathematician (1781–1868)
- 1801Christian Dietrich Grabbe — German playwright (1801–1836)
- 1803Hector Berlioz — French composer and conductor (1803–1869)
- 1810Alfred de Musset — French writer (1810–1857)
- 1843Robert Koch — German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
- 1858(Julian date)Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko — Russian theatre director (1858-1943)
- 1863Annie Jump Cannon — American astronomer (1863-1941)
- 1864Maurice Leblanc — French writer
- 1882Max Born — German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882–1970)
- 1882Fiorello La Guardia — American politician; 99th Mayor of New York City (1934–45)
- 1890Carlos Gardel — Uruguayan-Argentine singer, songwriter, and actor
- 1908Manoel de Oliveira — Portuguese film director (1908–2015)
- 1908Amon Göth — Austrian SS functionary, commandant of Plaszow concentration camp and convicted war criminal (1908-1946)
- 1911Naguib Mahfouz — Egyptian writer (1911–2006)
- 1911Qian Xuesen — Chinese rocket scientist (1911-2009)
- 1912Carlo Ponti — Italian film producer (1912-2007)
- 1913Jean Marais — French actor and theatre director (1913-1998)
- 1916Perez Prado — Cuban bandleader, pianist, composer and arranger (1917–1989)
- 1918Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn — Russian writer, publicist, poet and politician (1918–2008)
- 1922Dilip Kumar — Indian actor and politician (1922-2021)
- 1922Maila Nurmi — Finnish American actress (1922–2008)
- 1923Betsy Blair — American actress (1923–2009)
- 1925Paul Greengard — American neuroscientist (1925-2019)
Deaths · 60
- 384(Julian date)Damasus I — pope
- 861(Julian date)Al-Fat·h ibn Khàqan — 9th-century Abbasid official
- 1121Al-Afdal Shahanshah — vizier of the Fatimid Caliphate from 1094 to 1121
- 1241(Julian date)Ögedei Khan — Khan of the Mongol Empire (c.1186-1241) (r. 1229-1241)
- 1282(Julian date)Michael VIII Palaiologos — founder of the Palaiologan dynasty (1224–1282)
- 1282Llywelyn ap Gruffudd — Prince of Gwynedd
- 1474(Julian date)Henry IV of Castile — King of Castile
- 1532(Julian date)Pietro Accolti — Catholic cardinal
- 1582(Julian date)Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba — Spanish military tactician and diplomat (1507-1582)
- 1610Adam Elsheimer — German painter and draftsman (1578-1610)
- 1655Pieter Nuyts — 3rd Governor of Formosa
- 1686Louis, Grand Condé — Prince of the Condé branch of the House of Bourbon, French general and famous military leader
- 1694Ranuccio II Farnese — Duke of Parma
- 1826Maria Leopoldina of Austria — Queen consort of Portugal and Empress consort of Brazil (1797–1826)
- 1840Emperor Kōkaku — Emperor of Japan from 1780 to 1817
- 1872Kamehameha V — King of Hawaii from 1863 to 1872
- 1880Oliver Winchester — American businessman and politician (1810-1880)
- 1906Fitzhugh Townsend — American fencer and electrical engineering professor (1872-1906)
- 1909Ludwig Mond — British chemist and businessman (1839–1909)
- 1918Ivan Cankar — Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet and political activist (1876-1918)
- 1920Olive Schreiner — South African author and pacifist (1855-1920)
- 1937Jaan Anvelt — Estonian communist and writer (1884-1937)
- 1938Christian Lous Lange — Norwegian diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize recipient (1869-1938)
- 1941Charles Émile Picard — French mathematician (1856-1941)
- 1945Charles Fabry — French physicist
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