Independence
day
Chad
Events
of the day
3114 BC – The Mesoamerican
Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian
Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Mayans,
begins.
2492 BC – Traditional date of the defeat of
Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the
Armenian nation.
106 – The south-western part of Dacia (modern
Romania) becomes a Roman province: Roman Dacia.
355 – Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason,
proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius
II.
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.
1332 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle
of Dupplin Moor – Scots under Domhnall II,
Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol.
1675 – Franco-Dutch War: forces of the Holy
Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle
of Konzer Brücke.
1786 – Captain Francis Light establishes the
British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
1804 – Francis II assumes the title of first
Emperor of Austria.
1812 – Peninsular War: French troops engage
British-Portuguese forces in the Battle of
Majadahonda.
1858 – The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended
for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied
by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.
1898 – Spanish-American War: American troops
enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
1918 – World War I: the Battle of Amiens ends.
1919 – The constitution of the Weimar Republic
is adopted.
1920 – The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, which
relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses
to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War
of Independence.
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.
1934 – The first civilian prisoners arrive
at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
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.
1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founding father
of Pakistan, gives a speech to the Constituent
Assembly, the contents and meaning of which
remain contentious today.
1952 – Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King
of Jordan.
1959 – Sheremetyevo International Airport,
the second-largest airport in Russia, opens.
1960 – Chad declares independence.
1961 – The former Portuguese territories in
India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged
to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar
Haveli.
1965 – Race riots (the Watts riots) begin
in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
1972 – Vietnam War: the last United States
ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
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.
1982 – A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830,
en route from Tokyo to Honolulu, killing one
teenager and injuring 15 passengers.
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.
1999 – The Salt Lake City Tornado tears through
the downtown district of the city, killing
one.
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 Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin,
better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok,
Thailand.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Attracta
Clare of Assisi
Fiacre
Gaugericus
Philomena
Susanna
Taurinus of Évreux
Tiburtius and Chromatius
August 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence
of Chad from France in 1960.
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