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August 11 is the 223th day of the year (224th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 142 days remaining.

Events

480 BC - Persians under Xerxes defeat Spartans under King Leonidas in the Battle of Thermopylae. The Spartans fight to the last man
480 BC - The Persian and Greek fleets also fight the indecisive Battle of Artemisium.
1918 - Great War - Battle of Amiens ends
1919 - Constitution of Weimar Republic adopted
1934 - Federal prison opened at Alcatraz Island
1943 - World War II - First Quebec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, T. V. Soong and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
1948 - Olympic games open in London
1951 - René Pleven becomes Prime Minister of France
1952 - Hussein proclaimed king of Jordan
1960 - Chad declares independence
1965 - Race riots begin in Watts area of Los Angeles, California
1966 - John Lennon held a press conference in Chicago excusing himself from the "Jesus affair"
1970 - Patent issued for the spork to the Van Brode Milling Company
1972 - Last United States ground combat unit departs South Vietnam
1994 - An Aviateca Boeing 737 crashes into Chichontepec volcano, El Salvador killing 65
2003 - NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
2003 - Jemaah Islamiah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.