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Events [ ] 359 - The first known Prefect of the City of Constantinople , Honoratus , took office.1282 - Llywelyn ap Gruffydd or Gruffudd (b. c. 1228) the last native Prince of Wales , was killed at Cilmeri , near Builth Wells , south Wales . He was the last prince of an independent Wales before its conquest by King Edward I of England . Some would say he was the penultimate, but in effect he was the last ruler. In Welsh , he is remembered by the alliterative soubriquet Llywelyn Ein Llyw Olaf (Llywelyn, Our Last Leader).1602 - A surprise attack by forces under the command of the Duke of Savoy and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain , is repelled by the citizens of Geneva . (This actually takes place after midnight, in the early morning of December 12 , but commemorations/celebrations on Fête de l'Escalade are usually held on December 11 or the closest weekend.)1792 - French Revolution : King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention .1816 - Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state .1872 - P.B.S. Pinchback is sworn in as the first black member of the U.S. House of Representatives .1886 - Dial Square FC, a football club from Woolwich , London that will eventually become known as Arsenal FC , play their first match, a 6-0 win over Eastern Wanderers.1917 - British troops take Jerusalem from the troops of the Ottoman Empire 1925 - Quas Primas encyclical was promulgated, introducing the Feast of Christ the King .1927 - Guangzhou Uprising : Communist militia and worker red guards launch an uprising in the Chinese city of Guangzhou , taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet .1931 - The British Parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster , which establishes a status of legislative equality between the self-governing dominions of the Commonwealth of Australia , the Dominion of Canada , the Irish Free State , Newfoundland , the Dominion of New Zealand , and the Union of South Africa .1934 - A fire at the Hotel Kerns in Lansing , kills 34 people.1936 - Abdication Crisis : Edward VIII 's abdication as King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland , the British Dominions beyond the Seas , and Emperor of India becomes effective.1937 - Second Italo-Abyssinian War : Italy leaves the League of Nations 1941 - World War II : Germany and Italy declare war on the United States .1946 - The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established.1958 - Upper Volta declares its independence from France , and becomes an autonomous republic in the French Community .1961 - Melvin Calvin Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry for process of photosynthesis.1964 - Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. An unknown terrorist fired a mortar shell at the building during the speech.1971 - The Libertarian Party of the United States is formed.1972 - Apollo 17 becomes the sixth mission to land on the Moon .1980 - The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (known as either CERCLA or Superfund ) is enacted by the U.S. Congress.1981 - El Mozote massacre : Salvadoran armed forces kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the country's civil war.
1993 - Forty-eight people are killed when a block of the Highland Towers collapses near Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia .1994 - First Chechen War : Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya 1997 - The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change opens for signature.1998 - A Thai Airways Airbus A310 -200 crashes near Surat Thani Airport , killing 101.2001 - The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization .2005 - The Buncefield Oil Depot in Hemel Hempstead is rocked by explosions, causing a huge oil fire.
2005 - Cronulla riots : Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese (and many who were not) in Cronulla Sydney . These are followed up by ethnic attacks on Cronulla .
2006 - The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran , Iran by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad .Births [ ] 1465 - Ashikaga Yoshihisa , Japanese shogun (d. 1489 )1475 - Pope Leo X (d. 1521 )1566 - Manuel Cardoso , Portuguese composer (d. 1650 )1680 - Emanuele d'Astorga , Italian composer (d. 1736 )1709 - Louise Elisabeth of Orléans , queen consort of Spain (d. 1742 )1712 - Francesco Algarotti . Italian philosopher (d. 1764 )1725 - George Mason , American statesman (d. 1792 )1761 - Gian Domenico Romagnosi , Italian physicist (d. 1835 )1781 - Sir David Brewster , British physicist (d. 1868 )1801 - Christian Dietrich Grabbe , German writer (d. 1836 )1803 - Hector Berlioz , French composer (d. 1869 )1810 - Alfred de Musset , French poet (d. 1857 )1838 - John Labatt , Irish-Canadian brewer (d. 1915 )1843 - Robert Koch , German bacteriologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1910 )1858 - Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko , Russian theatre director (d. 1943 )1863 - Annie Jump Cannon , American astronomer (d. 1941 )1873 - Josip Plemelj , Slovenian mathematician (d. 1967 )1880 - Frank Tarrant , Australian cricketer (d. 1951 )1882 - Subramanya Bharathy , Indian poet (d. 1921 )1882 - Max Born , German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1970 )
1882 - Fiorello LaGuardia , American statesman (d. 1947 )
1883 - Victor McLaglen , British-born American actor (d. 1959 )1889 - Walter Knott , American farmer (d. 1981 )1890 - Carlos Gardel , tango singer (d. 1935 )1890 - Mark Tobey , American painter (d. 1976 )
1905 - Gilbert Roland , American actor (d. 1994 )1905 - Robert Henriques , British writer (d. 1967 )
1908 - Elliott Carter , American composer1910 - Noel Rosa , Brazilian songwriter (d. 1937 )1911 - Naguib Mahfouz , Egyptian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 2006 )1911 - Val Guest , British film director (d. 2006 )
1912 - Carlo Ponti , Italian film producer (d. 2007 )1913 - Jean Marais , French actor (d. 1998 )1916 - Dámaso Pérez Prado , Cuban-born bandleader (d. 1989 )1918 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , Russian writer, Nobel laureate 1919 - Marie Windsor , American actress (d. 2000 )1922 - Grace Paley , American writer1922 - Dilip Kumar , Indian actor
1922 - Grigoris Bithikotsis , Greek singer (d. 2005 )
1923 - Betsy Blair , American actress1925 - Paul Greengard , American neuroscientist, Nobel laureate 1926 - Big Mama Thornton , American singer (d. 1984 )1927 - John Buscema , American comics artist (d. 2002 )1930 - Jean-Louis Trintignant , French actor1930 - Chus Lampreave , Spanish actress
1931 - Rita Moreno , Puerto Rican actress1931 - Pierre Pilote , Canadian ice hockey player
1931 - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh , Indian guru (d. 1990 )
1933 - Aquilino Pimentel , Filipino politician1935 - Ron Carey , American actor (d. 2007 )1935 - Pranab Mukherjee , Indian politician
1935 - Elmer Vasko , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998 )
1936 - Taku Yamasaki , Japanese politician1937 - Jim Harrison , American writer1938 - McCoy Tyner , American jazz pianist1938 - Enrico Macias , Algerian-born French singer
1939 - Tom Hayden , American politician1939 - Thomas McGuane , American writer
1940 - David Gates , American musician (Bread )1941 - Jean-Paul Parise , Canadian ice hockey player1942 - Donna Mills , American actress1943 - John Kerry , American politician1944 - Teri Garr , American film actress1944 - Lynda Day George , American actress
1944 - Brenda Lee , American singer
1944 - Jon Garrison , American tenor
1948 - Stamatis Spanoudakis , Greek composer1950 - Christina Onassis , American heiress (d. 1988 )1953 - Bess Armstrong , American actress1954 - Jermaine Jackson , American musician1954 - Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson , Icelandic engineer
1956 - Lani Brockman , Playwright1958 - Nikki Sixx , American musician (Mötley Crüe )1959 - Lisa Gastineau , American reality show star1962 - Ben Browder , American actor1962 - Nele Karajlić , Bosnian singer
1963 - Jon Brion , American musician/record producer1964 - Michel Courtemanche , Quebec comedian1964 - John Mark Karr , American who claimed involvement in JonBenét Ramsey case
1964 - David Schools , American musician (Widespread Panic )
1964 - Cosy Sheridan , American singer
1964 - Carolyn Waldo , Canadian synchronized swimmer
1966 - Gary Dourdan , American actor1966 - Leon Lai , Cantonese singer/actor
1967 - DJ Yella , American music producer1967 - Mo'Nique , American actress/comedienne
1969 - Vishwanathan Anand , Indian chess grandmaster1969 - Stig Inge Bjørnebye , Norwegian footballer
1969 - Sean Grande , American sportscaster
1972 - Daniel Alfredsson , Swedish ice hockey player1972 - Sami Al-Jaber , Saudi Arabian footballer
1972 - Dana Macsim , Romanian television news reporter
1973 - Mos Def , American rapper and actor1974 - Rey Mysterio , American professional wrestler1974 - Ben Shephard , English TV personality
1975 - Gerben de Knegt , Dutch cyclist1975 - Tomoka Kurotani , Japanese actress
1976 - Shareef Abdur-Rahim , American basketball player1977 - Mark Streit , Swiss ice hockey player1979 - Rider Strong , American actor1980 - Arya , Indian actor1981 - Nikki Benz , Canadian actress1981 - Hamish Blake , Australian comedian
1981 - Paul Medhurst , Australian rules footballer
1981 - Javier Saviola , Argentine footballer
1981 - Zacky Vengeance , American musician (Avenged Sevenfold )
1982 - Pablo Pérez Companc , Argentine racing driver1984 - Leighton Baines , English footballer1987 - Natalia Gordienko , Moldovan singer and dancer1988 - Murugan Thiruchelvam , English chess prodigy1993 - Gina Miele , American singer and actressDeaths [ ] 384 - Pope Damasus I 1121 - Al-Afdal Shahanshah , Caliph of Egypt (b. 1066 )1226 - Robert de Ros , English politician (b. 1177 )1282 - Llywelyn the Last , King of Gwynedd 1282 - Michael VIII Palaiologos , Greek Byzantine Emperor (b. 1225 )
1532 - Pietro Accolti , Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1455 )1694 - Ranuccio II Farnese (b. 1630 )1737 - John Strype , English historian (b. 1643 )1757 - Edmund Curll , English bookseller (b. 1675 )1797 - Richard Brocklesby , English physician (b. 1722 )1840 - Emperor Kokaku of Japan (b. 1771 )1880 - Oliver Fisher Winchester , American businessman and politician (b. 1810 )1892 - William Milligan , Scottish theologian (b. 1821 )1909 - Innokenty Annensky , Russian poet (b. 1855 )1918 - Ivan Cankar , Slovenian writer (b. 1876 )1920 - Olive Schreiner , South African writer (b. 1855 )1938 - Christian Lous Lange , Norwegian pacifist and recipient of Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869 )1941 - John Gillespie Magee , American poet and aviator (b. 1922 )1941 - Charles Émile Picard , French mathematician (b. 1856 )
1945 - Charles Fabry , French physicist (b. 1867 )1950 - Leslie Comrie , New Zealand astronomer (b. 1893 )1957 - Musidora (Jeanne Roques), French actress (b. 1889 )1959 - Jim Bottomley , American baseball player (b. 1900 )1964 - Sam Cooke , American singer (b. 1931 )1964 - Percy Kilbride , American actor (b. 1888 )
1971 - Maurice "Mac" McDonald , American fast-food pioneer (b. 1902 )1978 - Vincent du Vigneaud , American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901 )1978 - Paul O'Dea , Baseball player (b. 1920 )
1983 - Sir Neil Ritchie , British General (b. 1897 )1984 - Oskar Seidlin , German-born American scholar (b. 1911 )1987 - G. A. Kulkarni , Indian (Marathi ) writer (b. 1923 )1989 - Louise Dahl-Wolfe , American photographer (b. 1895 )1991 - Robert Q. Lewis , American game show host and actor (b. 1921 )1991 - Artur Lundkvist , Swedish author and critic (b. 1906 )
1994 - Philip Phillips , American archaeologist (b. 1900 )1996 - Willie Rushton , English cartoonist (b. 1937 )1998 - André Lichnerowicz , Polish-French physicist (b. 1915 )1998 - Lynn Strait , American singer (b. 1968 )1999 - Kami , Japanese drummer (Malice Mizer ) (b. 1972 )
2000 - Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah , Pakistani politician, diplomat and author (b. 1915 )2000 - David Lewis , American actor (b. 1916 )
2003 - Ahmadou Kourouma , Côte d'Ivoire writer (b. 1927 )2004 - M.S. Subbulakshmi , Indian singer (b. 1916 )2004 - José Luis Cuciuffo , Argentinian footballer (b. 1962 )
2004 - Arthur Lydiard , New Zealand running coach (b. 1917 )
2006 - Elizabeth Bolden , American, oldest verified person in the world at the time of her death (b. 1890 )Holidays and observances [ ] External links [ ]
123 Familypedia people were born on December 11
141 Familypedia people died on December 11
82 Familypedia people were first married on December 11