Monday, 11 August 2014

Today in History for 11th August 2014

Historical Events


1918 - Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allieds beat Germans

1923 - Dutch Premier de Geer resigns

1942 - Lt-gen Montgomery makes landing on Gibraltar

1949 - Gaston Eyskens forms Belgiangovernment

1962 - Bolotnikov runs world record 10km (28:18.2)

1975 - Expos' Jose Mangual struck out 5 times in a game


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Famous Birthdays


1870 - Walter Bowman, Canadian soccer player (d. ?)

1909 - Jean Lancaster, director (WRNS)

1929 - Cora de Man-Canne Meyer, mezzo-soprano (Figaro, Carmen)

1950 - Gennidy Nikonov, Russian weapons inventor

1954 - Lina Polito, Naples Italy, actress (Love and Anarchy)

1976 - Bubba Crosby, American baseball player


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Famous Deaths


1180 - Guillaume de/Willem van Sens, Fren master builder (Canterbury), dies

1183 - Christian I, archbishop of Mainz, dies

1813 - Henry James Pye, English poet (b. 1745)

1820 - Janos Lavotta, composer, dies at 56

1994 - Gordon Cullen, architect, dies at 80

1995 - Wilbur Stark, tV/film producer, dies at 83


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