August 11: Independence Day in Chad (1960)
Ford Pinto
- 2492 BC – According to legend, Armenian culture hero Hayk slew the giant king Bel with a shot from a longbow near Lake Van (in modern Turkey).
- 106 – The region of Dacia, comprising regions of modern Romania, became a province of the Roman Empire.
- 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.
- 1977 – The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began an investigation into the Ford Pinto's (car pictured) alleged vulnerability to fuel leakage and fire in a rear-end collision.
Guttorm of Norway (d. 1204) · Enid Blyton (b. 1897) · Nicola Zagame (b. 1990)
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