On This Day
11 August
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1511 Tulsidas, saint and poet renowned for his devotion to the deity Rama, was born.
- 1908 The freedom fighter Khudiram Bose was hanged.
- 1961 Dadar and Nagar Haveli was merged with India and made a Union Territory. Like Goa, this area was also in the Portuguese colony for many years.
- 2007 Mohammad Hamid Ansari became the 13th Vice President of India.
- 2008 Abhinav Bindra wins men's 10m air rifle at the Beijing Olympics, the first ever individual Olympic gold medal for India, and India's first gold medal in any Olympic event since 1980.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1897 Enid Mary Blyton, English children's author whose books have been among the world's best-sellers since the 1930s, was born.
- 1909 SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC.
- 1945 Allies refuse Japan's offer to surrender on the condition that Emperor Hirohito retains his status.
- 1984 Carl Lewis wins four Olympic gold medals, tying the record Jesse Owens set in 1936.
- 1999 Up to 350 million people in Europe and Asia witness the last total solar eclipse of the 20th century.
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