On August 11th these people were born ...
1772 Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general.
1823 Charlotte Mary Yonge, English novelist.
1892 Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet.
1897 Enid Blyton, English author, children's books.
1902 Lloyd Nolan, actor (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Peyton Place)
1921 Alex Haley, American author (Roots)
1927 Raymond Leppard, conductor.
1929 Alun Hoddinott, Welsh composer.
1932 Dame Angela Rumbold, politician
1932 Lord (Eric) Varley, politician.
1937 Anna Massey, English actress.
1950 Steve Wozniak, co founded Apple Computer
1953 Hulk Hogan, actor.
1954 Joe Jackson, singer.
1976 Will Friedle, actor.
1983 Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor.
... and these people died ...
1495 Hans Memling, Flemish painter.
1890 John Henry Newman, English Roman Catholic theologian.
1919 Andrew Carnegie, US industrialist and philanthropist.
1956 Jackson Pollock, US artist.
2004 James Rockefeller, grandson of William Rockefeller.(102)
2005 Barbara Bel Geddes, actress. (Miss Ellie in Dallas)(82)
2008 Isaac Hayes, US soul singer-songwriter, chef in South Park. (65)
2009 Eunice Kennedy Shriver, JFK's sister and Special Olympics founder. (88)
... and these things happened - On August 11th
Chad, Independence Day.
1576 English navigator Martin Frobisher entered a bay in Canada.
1810 Severe earthquakes struck the Azores, village of Sao Miguel sank.
1877 Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moons Deimos & Phobos.
1929 Babe Ruth hit his 500th home run.
1933 Temp. hits 58øC (136øF) at San Luis Potosi, Mexico. (world record)
1941 President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill signed Atlantic Charter.
1942 Barnes Wallace patented the bouncing bomb.
1942 New Waterloo Bridge over the Thames was opened.
1952 King Talal of Jordan deposed, due to mental illness, he was
succeeded by Crown Prince Hussein, his son.
1960 Chad gained independence from France.
1963 Canton was entered by Chinese General Chiang Kai-shek.
1965 Race riots broke out in Chicago.
1972 Last US ground troops leave Vietnam.
1975 British government took control of British Leyland.
1977 Geoff Boycott scores his 100th century in a test match.
1989 Premiere of "Batman" in London.
1999 Total eclipse of the sun - visible in Devon, England.
2000 Latest version of English dictionary now includes "white-van man"
2000 Woolong Panda Reserve, China, celebrated birth of 6 new pandas.
2001 ITV will in future be known as ITV-1.
2001 Perseid meteor shower, 14 mil meteors the size of a grain of sand
2001 Shuttle Discovery blasted of with a new ISS crew.
2001 The cost of taking the UK driving test is now £38.
2002 The 3 major US stock indexes were up for the first time in 3 mths
2003 Royal Mail issued a set of five special British Pub Signs stamps.
2003 Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, 41, married his US girlfriend
Yekaterina Dmitriyeva, by video link between the International
Space Station and Nasa space control centre in Houston.
2004 First request by UK scientists to clone human embryos granted.
2004 Serial rapist Iorworth Hoare (on bail) won £7 mil on lottery.
2005 Katie Melua, born in Russia, became a British Citizen at Weybridge Register Office
2005 Scott Richter of Opt-In Real Big paid $7 mil to Microsoft for spamming infringements.
2006 Biggest typhoon in 50 years hit China between Shanghai and Hong Kong, 1.3 mil people were evacuated.
2006 Elizabeth Jagger (of Mick and Jerry) signed a deal with Marks and Spencer to appear in TV ads.
2007 At 8am the chimes of Big Ben were silenced - for 6 weeks while a team of abseilers gave it a clean.
2007 Top UK footballers cars were 1:BMW X5. 2:Range Rover Sport 3:Mercedes McLaren SLR 4:Aston Martin Vanquish.
2007 Walt Disney World hiked the cost of a one-day adult pass to its 4 Orlando theme parks by 6%, to a record $71.
2008 The Villa Leopolda between Nice and Monaco sold for a world record E500 million to a Russian billionaire.
2008 US pop singer Katy Perry was at no1 in the US and UK charts with her debut single I Kissed A Girl.
2009 Hertford university survey found young people had an average 8,000 illegally downloaded songs on their computers.
2009 Playboy was hit by the recession and Hugh Hefner had to sell the English Manor next to the Playboy Mansion, for a bargain $18 mil.
2009 UK Government and Liechtenstein agreed to end secret accounts held by Britons in the Alpine tax haven, about 5k with £3 billion.
2010 A record number of students were being refused after all courses were full at Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh and Warwick nine days before A-level results.
2010 Moscow was polluted from wildfires in one of their hottest ever summers; China was enduring floods during one of their wettest ever summers.
2011 Apple Computers became the most valuable company in America, with capitalisation of $337 billion, replacing Exxon Oil, top since 2005.
2011 Rise of the Planet of Apes by british director Rupert Wyatt was at number one at the North American box office in its' first week.
2012 Syrian Prime Minister Riad Hijab defected from President Bashar al-Assad's government to join the revolution.
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