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11th of December 0969 EVENT Byzatine Emperor Nikephoros II is assassinated by his wife Theofano and her lover, the later Emperor John I Tzimiskes.
11th of December 1282 EVENT Llywelyn the Last, the last native Prince of Wales, is killed at Cilmeri, near Builth Wells, south Wales.
11th of December 1602 EVENT A surprise attack by forces under the command of the Duke of Savoy and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain, is repelled by the citizens of Geneva.
11th of December 1789 EVENT The University of North Carolina is chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly.
11th of December 1792 EVENT French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
11th of December 1815 EVENT the U.S. Senate created a select committee on finance and a uniform national currency, predecessor of the United States Senate Committee on Finance.
11th of December 1816 EVENT Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.
11th of December 1868 EVENT Brazilians defeat Paraguayans at the Battle of Avai during the War of the Triple Alliance.
11th of December 1905 EVENT A workers' uprising occurs in Kiev and establishes the Shuliavka Republic.
11th of December 1907 EVENT The New Zealand Parliament Buildings are almost completely destroyed by fire.
11th of December 1917 EVENT British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.
11th of December 1925 EVENT Roman Catholic papal encyclical Quas Primas introduces the Feast of Christ the King.
11th of December 1927 EVENT Guangzhou Uprising: Communist militia and worker Red Guards launch an uprising in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet.
11th of December 1931 EVENT The British Parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster 1931, establishing legislative equality between the self-governing dominions of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of Canada, the Irish Free State, Dominion of Newfoundland, the Dominion of New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa.
11th of December 1934 EVENT Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the last time.
11th of December 1936 EVENT Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII's abdication as King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Dominions beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India becomes effective.
11th of December 1937 EVENT Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations.
11th of December 1941 EVENT World War II: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, following the Americans' declaration of war on Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States, in turn, declares war on Germany and Italy.
11th of December 1946 EVENT The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established.
11th of December 1948 EVENT The United Nations passes General Assembly Resolution 194, which established and defined the role of the United Nations Conciliation Commission as an organization to facilitate peace in the British Mandate for Palestine.
11th of December 1958 EVENT French Upper Volta gains self-government from France, becomes the Republic of Upper Volta, and joins the French Community.
11th of December 1960 EVENT French forces crack down in a violent clash with protesters in French Algeria during a visit by French president Charles de Gaulle.
11th of December 1962 EVENT Arthur Lucas, convicted of murder, is the last person to be executed in Canada.
11th of December 1964 EVENT Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.
11th of December 1968 EVENT The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
11th of December 1972 EVENT Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and last Apollo mission to land on the Moon.
11th of December 1980 EVENT The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, also known as CERCLA or Superfund, is enacted by the U.S. Congress.
11th of December 1981 EVENT El Mozote massacre: Armed forces in El Salvador kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the Salvadoran Civil War.
11th of December 1993 EVENT Forty-eight people are killed when a block of the Highland Towers collapses near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
11th of December 1994 EVENT First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya.
11th of December 1994 EVENT A bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, en route from Manila to Tokyo, killing one. The captain is able to safely land the plane.
11th of December 1997 EVENT The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature.
11th of December 1998 EVENT Thai Airways Flight 261 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101. The pilot flying the Thai Airways Airbus A310-300 is thought to have suffered spatial disorientation.
11th of December 2001 EVENT The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization.
11th of December 2005 EVENT The Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in Hemel Hempstead, England.
11th of December 2005 EVENT Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese (and many who are not) in Cronulla Sydney. These are followed up by retaliatory ethnic attacks on Cronulla.
11th of December 2006 EVENT The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; Nations such as Israel and the United States express concern.
11th of December 2007 EVENT Two car bombs explode at the Constitutional Court building in Algiers and the United Nations office. An estimated 45 people are killed in the bombings.
11th of December 2008 EVENT Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
11th of December 2009 EVENT Tiger Woods announced an indefinite leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage.
11th of December 2010 EVENT Two explosions occur in a busy shopping district of Stockholm, Sweden, killing one and injuring two others. Officials say the incident is being treated as a terrorist attack.
11th of December 1465 BIRTHDAY Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (d. 1489)
11th of December 1475 BIRTHDAY Pope Leo X (d. 1521)
11th of December 1566 BIRTHDAY Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer (d. 1650)
11th of December 1680 BIRTHDAY Emanuele d'Astorga, Italian composer (d. 1736)
11th of December 1709 BIRTHDAY Louise Elisabeth d'Orleans, queen consort of Spain (d. 1742)
11th of December 1712 BIRTHDAY Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher (d. 1764)
11th of December 1725 BIRTHDAY George Mason, American statesman (d. 1792)
11th of December 1761 BIRTHDAY Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (d. 1835)
11th of December 1781 BIRTHDAY Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist (d. 1868)
11th of December 1801 BIRTHDAY Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer (d. 1836)
11th of December 1803 BIRTHDAY Hector Berlioz, French composer (d. 1869)
11th of December 1810 BIRTHDAY Alfred de Musset, French poet (d. 1857)
11th of December 1830 BIRTHDAY Kamehameha V, Hawaiian king (d. 1872)
11th of December 1838 BIRTHDAY John Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer (d. 1915)
11th of December 1843 BIRTHDAY Robert Koch, German bacteriologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1910)
11th of December 1856 BIRTHDAY Georgi Plekhanov, Russian revolutionary and Marxist theoretician (d. 1918)
11th of December 1858 BIRTHDAY Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian theatre director (d. 1943)
11th of December 1863 BIRTHDAY Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (d. 1941)
11th of December 1873 BIRTHDAY Josip Plemelj, Slovenian mathematician (d. 1967)
11th of December 1875 BIRTHDAY Yehuda Leib Maimon, Bassarabian-born Israeli rabbi and government minister (d. 1962)
11th of December 1880 BIRTHDAY Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (d. 1951)
11th of December 1882 BIRTHDAY Subramanya Bharathy, Indian poet (d. 1921)
11th of December 1882 BIRTHDAY Max Born, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1970)
11th of December 1882 BIRTHDAY Fiorello La Guardia, American statesman (d. 1947)
11th of December 1883 BIRTHDAY Victor McLaglen, English-born American actor (d. 1959)
11th of December 1889 BIRTHDAY Walter Knott, American farmer (d. 1981)
11th of December 1890 BIRTHDAY Carlos Gardel, tango singer (d. 1935)
11th of December 1890 BIRTHDAY Mark Tobey, American painter (d. 1976)
11th of December 1897 BIRTHDAY Ronald Skirth, conscientious objector of the First World War (d. 1977)
11th of December 1904 BIRTHDAY Marge, American cartoonist (d. 1993)
11th of December 1905 BIRTHDAY Gilbert Roland, American actor (d. 1994)
11th of December 1905 BIRTHDAY Robert Henriques, English writer (d. 1967)
11th of December 1908 BIRTHDAY Elliott Carter, American composer
11th of December 1908 BIRTHDAY Amon Goth, commandant of Nazi concentration camp (d. 1946)
11th of December 1908 BIRTHDAY Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese director
11th of December 1909 BIRTHDAY John Wyer, English sports car racing team manager (d. 1989)
11th of December 1909 BIRTHDAY Ronald McKie, Australian author (d. 1991)
11th of December 1910 BIRTHDAY Noel Rosa, Brazilian songwriter (d. 1937)
11th of December 1911 BIRTHDAY Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 2006)
11th of December 1911 BIRTHDAY Qian Xuesen, Chinese scientist (d. 2009)
11th of December 1911 BIRTHDAY Val Guest, English film director (d. 2006)
11th of December 1912 BIRTHDAY Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (d. 2007)
11th of December 1913 BIRTHDAY Jean Marais, French actor (d. 1998)
11th of December 1916 BIRTHDAY Damaso Perez Prado, Cuban-born bandleader (d. 1989)
11th of December 1918 BIRTHDAY Clinton Adams, American artist (d. 2002)
11th of December 1918 BIRTHDAY Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer and Soviet dissident, Nobel laureate (d. 2008)
11th of December 1919 BIRTHDAY Marie Windsor, American actress (d. 2000)
11th of December 1921 BIRTHDAY Liz Smith, British actress
11th of December 1922 BIRTHDAY Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer (d. 2005)
11th of December 1922 BIRTHDAY Dilip Kumar, Indian actor
11th of December 1922 BIRTHDAY Grace Paley, American writer (d. 2007)
11th of December 1922 BIRTHDAY Maila Nurmi, Finnish-American actress (d. 2008)
11th of December 1923 BIRTHDAY Betsy Blair, American actress (d. 2009)
11th of December 1924 BIRTHDAY Doc Blanchard, American football player (d. 2009)
11th of December 1925 BIRTHDAY Aaron Feuerstein, American businessman
11th of December 1925 BIRTHDAY Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist, Nobel laureate
11th of December 1926 BIRTHDAY Big Mama Thornton, American singer (d. 1984)
11th of December 1927 BIRTHDAY John Buscema, American comics artist (d. 2002)
11th of December 1930 BIRTHDAY Chus Lampreave, Spanish actress
11th of December 1930 BIRTHDAY Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor
11th of December 1931 BIRTHDAY Rita Moreno, Puerto Rican actress
11th of December 1931 BIRTHDAY Ronald Dworkin, American philosopher
11th of December 1931 BIRTHDAY Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Indian guru (d. 1990)
11th of December 1931 BIRTHDAY Pierre Pilote, Canadian ice hockey player
11th of December 1932 BIRTHDAY Enrique Bermudez, Nicaraguan Contra leader (d. 1991)
11th of December 1932 BIRTHDAY Anne Heywood, English actress
11th of December 1932 BIRTHDAY Aladar Kovacsi, Hungarian modern pentathlon Olympic champion (1952, Helsinki) (d. 2010)
11th of December 1933 BIRTHDAY Aquilino Pimentel, Jr., Filipino politician
11th of December 1935 BIRTHDAY Pranab Mukherjee, Indian politician
11th of December 1935 BIRTHDAY Ron Carey, American actor (d. 2007)
11th of December 1935 BIRTHDAY Elmer Vasko, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
11th of December 1936 BIRTHDAY Taku Yamasaki, Japanese politician
11th of December 1937 BIRTHDAY Jim Harrison, American writer
11th of December 1938 BIRTHDAY McCoy Tyner, American jazz pianist
11th of December 1938 BIRTHDAY Enrico Macias, Algerian-born French singer
11th of December 1938 BIRTHDAY Reg Livermore, Australian entertainer
11th of December 1939 BIRTHDAY Tom Hayden, American politician and activist
11th of December 1939 BIRTHDAY Thomas McGuane, American writer
11th of December 1940 BIRTHDAY David Gates, American musician (Bread)
11th of December 1941 BIRTHDAY J. P. Parise, Canadian ice hockey player
11th of December 1941 BIRTHDAY Max Baucus, American politician, senior senator of Montana
11th of December 1941 BIRTHDAY J. Frank Wilson, American singer (J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers) (d. 1991)
11th of December 1942 BIRTHDAY Donna Mills, American actress
11th of December 1943 BIRTHDAY John Kerry, American politician
11th of December 1944 BIRTHDAY Jon Garrison, American tenor
11th of December 1944 BIRTHDAY Teri Garr, American film actress
11th of December 1944 BIRTHDAY Lynda Day George, American actress
11th of December 1944 BIRTHDAY Brenda Lee, American singer
11th of December 1946 BIRTHDAY Rhoma Irama, Indonesian musician, King of Dangdut
11th of December 1946 BIRTHDAY Susan Kyle (aka Diana Palmer, Susan S. Kyle, Diana Blayne, Katy Currie), American writer
11th of December 1948 BIRTHDAY Stamatis Spanoudakis, Greek composer
11th of December 1950 BIRTHDAY Nino Frassica, Italian actor
11th of December 1950 BIRTHDAY Christina Onassis, American heiress (d. 1988)
11th of December 1953 BIRTHDAY Bess Armstrong, American actress
11th of December 1954 BIRTHDAY Jermaine Jackson, American singer (Jackson 5)
11th of December 1954 BIRTHDAY Gu?laugur Kristinn Ottarsson, Icelandic engineer
11th of December 1954 BIRTHDAY Santiago Creel, Mexican politician
11th of December 1955 BIRTHDAY Stu Jackson, American basketball head coach
11th of December 1955 BIRTHDAY Christian Sackewitz, German footballer
11th of December 1956 BIRTHDAY Andrew Lansley, British politician
11th of December 1956 BIRTHDAY Lani Brockman, American actress, director and playwright
11th of December 1958 BIRTHDAY Nikki Sixx, American musician (Motley Crue)
11th of December 1958 BIRTHDAY Isabella Hofmann, American actress
11th of December 1960 BIRTHDAY Rachel Portman, English film composer
11th of December 1961 BIRTHDAY Marco Pierre White, English chef and restaurateur
11th of December 1962 BIRTHDAY Ben Browder, American actor
11th of December 1962 BIRTHDAY Paul Haslinger, Austrian-born composer
11th of December 1962 BIRTHDAY Nele Karajlic, Bosnian singer
11th of December 1963 BIRTHDAY Jon Brion, American musician/record producer
11th of December 1964 BIRTHDAY Justin Currie, Scottish singer and songwriter
11th of December 1964 BIRTHDAY John Mark Karr, American who claimed involvement in JonBenet Ramsey case
11th of December 1964 BIRTHDAY Michel Courtemanche, French Canadian comedian
11th of December 1964 BIRTHDAY Cosy Sheridan, American singer
11th of December 1964 BIRTHDAY David Schools, American musician (Widespread Panic)
11th of December 1964 BIRTHDAY Carolyn Waldo, Canadian synchronized swimmer
11th of December 1966 BIRTHDAY Leon Lai, Hong Kong Cantonese singer/actor
11th of December 1966 BIRTHDAY Gary Dourdan, American actor
11th of December 1967 BIRTHDAY Mo'Nique, American actress/comedienne
11th of December 1967 BIRTHDAY DJ Yella, American DJ and music producer (N.W.A)
11th of December 1968 BIRTHDAY Fabrizio Ravanelli, Italian footballer
11th of December 1969 BIRTHDAY Stig Inge Bj?rnebye, Norwegian footballer
11th of December 1969 BIRTHDAY Viswanathan Anand, Indian chess grandmaster, current World Chess Champion
11th of December 1969 BIRTHDAY Sean Grande, American sportscaster
11th of December 1969 BIRTHDAY Alessandro Melli, Italian footballer
11th of December 1971 BIRTHDAY Willie McGinest, American football player
11th of December 1972 BIRTHDAY Daniel Alfredsson, Swedish ice hockey player
11th of December 1972 BIRTHDAY Sami Al-Jaber, Saudi Arabian footballer
11th of December 1973 BIRTHDAY Mos Def, American rapper and actor
11th of December 1974 BIRTHDAY Rey Mysterio, Mexican professional wrestler
11th of December 1974 BIRTHDAY Lisa Ortiz, TV animation and video game voice actress.
11th of December 1974 BIRTHDAY Ben Shephard, English TV personality
11th of December 1975 BIRTHDAY Tomoka Kurotani, Japanese actress
11th of December 1975 BIRTHDAY Gerben de Knegt, Dutch cyclist
11th of December 1976 BIRTHDAY Shareef Abdur-Rahim, American basketball player
11th of December 1977 BIRTHDAY Mark Streit, Swiss ice hockey player
11th of December 1979 BIRTHDAY Rider Strong, American actor
11th of December 1980 BIRTHDAY Arya, Indian actor
11th of December 1981 BIRTHDAY Nikki Benz, Ukraine-born Canadian pornographic actress
11th of December 1981 BIRTHDAY Paul Medhurst, Australian rules footballer
11th of December 1981 BIRTHDAY Hamish Blake, Australian comedian
11th of December 1981 BIRTHDAY Javier Saviola, Argentine footballer
11th of December 1981 BIRTHDAY Zacky Vengeance, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold)
11th of December 1982 BIRTHDAY Pablo Perez Companc, Argentine racing driver
11th of December 1983 BIRTHDAY Yoh Miyamori, Japanese musician (Orange Range)
11th of December 1984 BIRTHDAY Leighton Baines, English footballer
11th of December 1985 BIRTHDAY Aiko Kayo, Japanese idol singer
11th of December 1987 BIRTHDAY Clifton Geathers, American football player
11th of December 1987 BIRTHDAY Natalia Gordienko, Moldovan singer and dancer
11th of December 1988 BIRTHDAY Tim Southee, New Zealand cricketer
11th of December 1989 BIRTHDAY Murugan Thiruchelvam, English chess player
11th of December 0384 DEATH Pope Damasus I
11th of December 0969 DEATH Nikephoros II Phokas (Born c. 912)
11th of December 1121 DEATH Al-Afdal Shahanshah, Galilean political advisor (Born 1066)
11th of December 1226 DEATH Robert de Ros, English politician (Born 1177)
11th of December 1241 DEATH Emperor Ogedei Khan of the Mongol Empire
11th of December 1282 DEATH Prince Llywelyn the Last of Wales
11th of December 1282 DEATH Michael VIII Palaiologos (Born 1225)
11th of December 1532 DEATH Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (Born 1455)
11th of December 1582 DEATH Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba, Spanish territorial governor (Born 1508)
11th of December 1694 DEATH Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (Born 1630)
11th of December 1737 DEATH John Strype, English historian (Born 1643)
11th of December 1747 DEATH Edmund Curll, English bookseller (Born c. 1675)
11th of December 1797 DEATH Richard Brocklesby, English physician (Born 1722)
11th of December 1840 DEATH Emperor Kokaku of Japan (Born 1771)
11th of December 1872 DEATH King Kamehameha V of Hawaii (Born 1830)
11th of December 1880 DEATH Oliver Fisher Winchester, American businessman and politician (Born 1810)
11th of December 1892 DEATH William Milligan, Scottish theologian (Born 1821)
11th of December 1909 DEATH Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (Born 1855)
11th of December 1918 DEATH Ivan Cankar, Slovenian writer (Born 1876)
11th of December 1920 DEATH Olive Schreiner, South African writer (Born 1855)
11th of December 1938 DEATH Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1869)
11th of December 1941 DEATH John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (Born 1922)
11th of December 1941 DEATH Charles Emile Picard, French mathematician (Born 1856)
11th of December 1945 DEATH Charles Fabry, French physicist (Born 1867)
11th of December 1950 DEATH Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer (Born 1893)
11th of December 1957 DEATH Musidora (Jeanne Roques), French actress (Born 1889)
11th of December 1959 DEATH Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (Born 1900)
11th of December 1964 DEATH Sam Cooke, American singer (Born 1931)
11th of December 1964 DEATH Percy Kilbride, American actor (Born 1888)
11th of December 1968 DEATH Richard Sagrits, Estonian painter (Born1910)
11th of December 1971 DEATH Maurice McDonald, American fast-food entrepreneur (Born 1902)
11th of December 1975 DEATH Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (Born 1908)
11th of December 1978 DEATH Paul O'Dea, American baseball player (Born 1920)
11th of December 1978 DEATH Vincent du Vigneaud, American chemist and Nobel laureate (Born 1901)
11th of December 1979 DEATH James J. Gibson, American perceptual psychologist (Born 1904)
11th of December 1983 DEATH Sir Neil Ritchie, British General (Born 1897)
11th of December 1984 DEATH Oskar Seidlin, German-born American scholar (Born 1911)
11th of December 1987 DEATH G. A. Kulkarni, Indian (Marathi) writer (Born 1923)
11th of December 1989 DEATH Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (Born 1895)
11th of December 1991 DEATH Artur Lundkvist, Swedish author and critic (Born 1906)
11th of December 1991 DEATH Robert Q. Lewis, American game show host (Born 1921)
11th of December 1992 DEATH Michael Robbins, English actor (Born 1930)
11th of December 1993 DEATH Elvira Popescu, Romanian-born French actress (Born 1894)
11th of December 1994 DEATH Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (Born 1900)
11th of December 1995 DEATH Arthur Mullard, English comedy actor (Born 1910)
11th of December 1996 DEATH Willie Rushton, English cartoonist and magazine publisher (Born 1937)
11th of December 1997 DEATH Eddie Chapman, British World War II spy (Born 1914)
11th of December 1998 DEATH Andre Lichnerowicz, Polish-French physicist (Born 1915)
11th of December 1998 DEATH Lynn Strait, American singer (Snot) (Born 1968)
11th of December 2000 DEATH David Lewis, American actor (Born 1916)
11th of December 2000 DEATH Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani diplomat and author (Born 1915)
11th of December 2003 DEATH Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer (Born 1927)
11th of December 2004 DEATH Jose Luis Cuciuffo, Argentinian footballer (Born 1962)
11th of December 2004 DEATH Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand track & field coach (Born 1917)
11th of December 2004 DEATH M.S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer (Born 1916)
11th of December 2006 DEATH Elizabeth Bolden, American supercentenarian (Born 1890)
11th of December 2007 DEATH Christie Hennessy, Irish singer (Born 1945)
11th of December 2008 DEATH Bettie Page, American model (Born 1923)
11th of December 2008 DEATH Maddie Blaustein, American voice actress (Born 1960)
11th of December 2010 DEATH Dick Hoerner, American football player (Born 1922)