Aug 11th-this date in history:
1999 – Total solar eclipse in India-North -France
1991 – 400,000 demonstrate for democracy in Madagascar, 31 killed
1988 – Meir Kahane renounced U.S. citizenship to stay in Israeli Parliament
1984 – During a radio voice test President Reagan joked he “signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes”
1984 – U.S.S.R. performs (underground) nuclear test
1982 – U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 – Funeral of Pope Paul VI
1976 – Race riot in Cape Town, South Africa; 17 die
1944 – British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy
1944 – U.S. air raid on Palembang
1942 – 999 Jews are taken from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium
1942 – British aircraft carrier Eagle torpedoed and sinks
1942 – Lieutenant-general Montgomery makes landing on Gibraltar
1941 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill sign Atlantic Charter
1940 – 38 German aircrafts shot down above England
1940 – German air raid on British harbors Portland/Weymouth
1935 – Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews
1924 – 1st newsreel pictures of presidential candidates were taken
1914 – France declares war on Austria-Hungary
1914 – Jews are expelled from Mitchenick Poland
1885 – $100,000 raised in U.S. for pedestal for Statue of Liberty