11 August

Notable Births

Marvin Harrison Jr.

b. 2002

American football player (born 2002)

Moyuka Uchijima

b. 2001

Japanese tennis player (born 2001)

Gregoria Mariska Tunjung

b. 1999

Indonesian badminton player

Changbin

b. 1999

South Korean rapper (born 1999)

Brad Binder

b. 1995

South African motorcycle racer (born 1995)

Storm Hunter

b. 1994

Australian tennis player (born 1994)

Anton Cooper

b. 1994

New Zealand cyclist

Song I-han

b. 1994

South Korean singer (born 1994)

Alyson Stoner

b. 1993

American actor, singer, and dancer (born 1993)

Tomi Lahren

b. 1992

American political commentator (born 1992)

Cristian Tello

b. 1991

Spanish footballer

Patty Mills

b. 1988

Australian basketball player (born 1988)

Mustafa Pektemek

b. 1988

Turkish footballer

Dany N'Guessan

b. 1987

French footballer (born 1987)

Drew Storen

b. 1987

American baseball player (born 1987)

Mokhtar Benmoussa

b. 1986

Algerian footballer (born 1986)

Pablo Sandoval

b. 1986

Venezuelan-American baseball player (born 1986)

Jacqueline Fernandez

b. 1985

Sri Lankan actress (born 1985)

Asher Roth

b. 1985

American rapper (born 1985)

Mojtaba Abedini

b. 1984

Iranian sabre fencer (born 1984)

Notable Deaths

Miguel Uribe Turbay

d. 2025

Colombian politician (1986–2025)

Danielle Spencer (American actress)

d. 2025

American actress and veterinarian (1965–2025)

Ángel Salazar

d. 2024

Cuban-American comedian and actor (1956–2024)

Noël Treanor

d. 2024

Irish Roman Catholic prelate (1950–2024)

Mike Ahern (Australian politician)

d. 2023

Australian politician (1942–2023)

Anne Heche

d. 2022

American actress (1969–2022)

Hanae Mori

d. 2022

Japanese fashion designer (1926–2022)

Trini Lopez

d. 2020

American singer and guitarist (1937–2020)

Sumner Redstone

d. 2020

American business and media magnate (1923–2020)

Sergio Obeso Rivera

d. 2019

Mexican cardinal (1931–2019)

V. S. Naipaul

d. 2018

Trinidadian-British writer (1932–2018)

Terry A. Davis

d. 2018

American computer programmer (1969–2018)

Yisrael Kristal

d. 2017

Polish-Israeli supercentenarian (1903–2017)

Harald Nielsen

d. 2015

Danish footballer (1941–2015)

Richard Oriani

d. 2015

American chemical engineer (1920–2015)

Vladimir Beara

d. 2014

Yugoslav footballer and manager

Raymond Gravel

d. 2014

Canadian Québécois Roman Catholic priest and politician

Kika Szaszkiewiczowa

d. 2014

Polish cabaret performer and writer (1917–2014)

Robin Williams

d. 2014

American actor and comedian (1951–2014)

Sam Hall (diver)

d. 2014

American diver (1937–2014)

On This Day in History

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2023

Luna 25 launches from the Vostochny Cosmodrome.

Luna 25

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2017

At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger trains collide in Alexandria, Egypt.

Alexandria train collision

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2012

At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.

2012 East Azerbaijan earthquakes

2006

The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill.

Oil tanker

2003

NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.

NATO

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2003

Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.

Jemaah Islamiyah

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2000

An air rage incident occurs on board Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 when 19-year-old Jonathan Burton attempts to storm the cockpit, but he is subdued by other passengers and dies from his injuries.

Air rage

1995

The Russell Hill subway accident in Toronto kills 3 and injures 30, due to a combination of human error and a safety system design flaw.

1995 Russell Hill subway accident

1992

The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota opens. At the time the largest shopping mall in the United States.

Mall of America

1991

Nickelodeon's first line of "Nicktoons" (Doug, Rugrats & Ren & Stimpy) premiere on the channel.

Nickelodeon

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1988

A meeting between Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif, Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, and leaders of Egyptian Islamic Jihad in Afghanistan culminates in the formation of Al-Qaeda.

Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif

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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.

We begin bombing in five minutes

1982

A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others.

Pan Am Flight 830

1979

Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners.

Aeroflot

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.

Timor-Leste

1973

At the 1520 Sedgwick Avenue apartment building in The Bronx, New York, DJ Kool Herc hosts a house party widely considered to mark the birthplace of hip hop culture and music. DJ Kool Herc demonstrates a new technique of beat juggling and Coke La Rock performs a new style of vocal performance called rapping.

1520 Sedgwick Avenue