December 11

December 11 is the 345th day (346th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 20 days remaining.

Events

• 1205 - John Grey[?], Bishop of Norwich, was elected Archbishop of Canterbury.
• 1620 - The Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock[?]
• 1792 - King Louis XVI of France goes on trial for treason
• 1816 - Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.
• 1816 - Citizens of Geneva, Switzerland repel attack by Savoy
• 1901 - Guglielmo Marconi sends the first trans-Atlantic radio signal, from Cornwall to Newfoundland
• 1917 - Lithuania declares its independence from the Soviet Union
• 1931 - Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland and Newfoundland
• 1937 - Edward VIII's abdication as King of the United Kingdom becomes effective.
• 1937 - Italy leaves the League of Nations.
• 1941 - Germany and Italy declare war on the United States.
• 1946 - The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established.
• 1958 - Upper Volta declares its independence from France
• 1972 - Apollo 17 lands on the Moon.
• 1981 - Muhammad Ali's last fight -- he loses to Trevor Berbick[?]
• 1981 - Javier Perez de Cuellar[?] of Peru becomes UN Secretary-General
• 1994 - Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya
• 2001 - DrinkOrDie raids.
• 2001 - China joins the World Trade Organization.

Births

• 1475 - Pope Leo X (+ 1521)
• 1725 - George Mason, U.S. patriot, "Father of the Bill of Rights"
• 1781 - Sir David Brewster, physicist (+ 1868)
• 1801 - Christian Dietrich Grabbe[?], writer
• 1803 - Hector Berlioz, composer (+ 1869)
• 1810 - Alfred de Musset, poet (+ 1857)
• 1843 - Robert Koch, bacteriologist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in medicine 1905 (+ 1910)
• 1873 - Josip Plemelj, mathematician
• 1882 - Max Born, physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1954 (+ 1970)
• 1882 - Fiorello LaGuardia, mayor of New York City (+ 1947)
• 1883 - Victor McLaglen, actor (+ 1959)
• 1890 - Mark Tobey[?], painter (+ 1976)
• 1905 - Gilbert Roland[?], actor (+ 1994)
• 1911 - Naguib Mahfooz[?], novelist
• 1913 - Jean Marais[?], actor (+ 1998)
• 1913 - Carlo Ponti[?], director
• 1918 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature
• 1919 - Marie Windsor[?], actress (+ 2000)
• 1920 - Big Mama Thornton[?], singer
• 1924 - Doc Blanchard[?], Heisman Trophy[?] winner
• 1930 - Jean-Louis Trintignant, actor
• 1931 - Rita Moreno[?], singer, dancer, actress
• 1939 - Tom Hayden[?], American radical and politician
• 1944 - Booker T. Jones[?], musician
• 1944 - Brenda Lee, singer
• 1950 - Christina Onassis[?] shipowner (+ 1988)
• 1954 - Jermaine Jackson[?], musician
• 1958 - Nikki Sixx, musician

Deaths

• 384 - St. Damasus, Pope
• 1945 - Charles Fabry[?], physicist
• 1964 - Sam Cooke

Holidays and observances

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