On This Day August 11th

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August 11 is the 223rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 142 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Maya, begins.

1315 – The Great Famine of Europe becomes so dire that even the king of England has difficulties buying bread for himself and his entourage.

1786 – Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.

1858 – The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington, accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.

1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.

1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones, two-way radio communications, and Wi-Fi.

1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the Moon.

1992 – The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, opens. At the time the largest shopping mall in the United States.

Birthdays

1673 – Richard Mead, English physician, and astrologer (d. 1754)

1778 – Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Prussian gymnast, educator, and politician (d. 1852)

1860 – Ottó Bláthy, Hungarian engineer and chess player (d. 1939)

1921 – Alex Haley, American historian, and author (d. 1992)

1936 – Mary Greco Gilkerson- Soda bottle organizer, Pizza Chef.

1950 – Steve Wozniak, an American computer scientist and programmer, co-founded Apple Inc.

1953 – Hulk Hogan, an American wrestler

1946 – John Conlee, American singer-songwriter

1992 – Tomi Lahren, American conservative political commentator


Holidays & Observance

National Presidential Joke Day

I know that National Presidential Joke means we trade funny stories and puns about Our national elected leaders. It started when the underappreciated Ronald Regan quipped, “We start bombing in three minutes, “to start his first national speech, but it has ballooned into a whole holiday. For my money, there is only one National Presidential Joke.

 



Others include.

Chad Independence Day

National Son and Daughter Day

International Mountain Day

National Align Your Teeth Day


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