August 11

August 11th will be the 223th day of 2023. This year, it will be a Friday which will be in week 32. We will be the 11th of August 2023 in a year.

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What happened that day?

2017: At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger trains collide in Alexandria, Egypt.
2012: At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.
2006: The oil tanker M/T Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill.
2003: Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
2003: NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
1984: "We begin bombing in five minutes": United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.
1982: A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others.
1979: Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners.
1975: East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
1972: Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
1969: The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the moon.[1]
1965: Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
1962: Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
1961: The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
1960: Chad declares independence.
1959: Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens.
1952: Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.
1945: Poles in Kraków engage in a pogrom against Jews in the city, killing one and wounding five.
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 and Wi-Fi.
1934: The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
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.
1920: The [Latvia](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvia)n-Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.
1918: World War I: The Battle of Amiens ends.
1898: Spanish-American War: American troops enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
1858: The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.
1813: In Colombia, Juan del Corral declares the independence of Antioquia.
1812: Peninsular War: French troops engage British-Portuguese forces in the Battle of Majadahonda.
1804: Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria.
1786: Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
1675: Franco-Dutch War: Forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle of Konzer Brücke.
1473: The Battle of Otlukbeli: Mehmed the Conqueror of the Ottoman Empire decisively defeats Uzun Hassan of Aq Qoyunlu.
1332: Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Dupplin Moor: Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol.
490: Battle of Adda: The Goths under Theodoric the Great and his ally Alaric II defeat the forces of Odoacer on the Adda River, near Milan.
355: Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius II.
106: The south-western part of Dacia (modern Romania) becomes a Roman province: Roman Dacia.
2492 BC: Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation.
3114 BC: The [Mesoamerica](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerica)n Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Maya, begins.