December 11

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

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances

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
- - Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru becomes UN Secretary-General
- - The Salvadoran armed forces massacre 776 villagers at El Mozote, El Salvador
1994 - Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya
2001 - DrinkOrDie raids.
2001 - The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization.

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 Mahfouz, 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