August 11: Independence Day in Chad (1960)
- 3114 BC – The epoch of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, a non-repeating, vigesimal calendar used by the Maya civilization and several other Mesoamerican cultures, occurred.
- 106 – The region of Dacia, comprising regions of modern Romania, became a province of the Roman Empire.
- 1786 – Captain Francis Light founded the British colony of Penang (City Hall pictured), beginning more than a century of British involvement in Malaya.
- 1828 – William Corder was hanged at Bury St Edmunds, England, for the murder of Maria Marten at the Red Barn.
- 1945 – Amid rumors of kidnappings of children by Jews in Kraków, a crowd of Poles engaged in a pogrom, which resulted in one dead and five wounded victims.
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