Today In History - August 11

1772 A violent eruption blows 4,000' off of Papandayan, Java and kills 3,000 people
1780 The Barbados hurricane begins
1835 George B. Airy begins a 46-year reign as England's Royal Astronomer
1860 The first successful US silver mill: Virginia City, Nevada
1866 The world's first roller rink opens in Newport, RI
1877 Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Deimos
1888 The California Theatre closed
1909 An SOS (Save Our Ship) is first used by an American ship
1914 The Jews are expelled from Mitchenick Poland
1918 The Battle of Amiens ends: Allies beat the Germans
1919 The Green Bay Packers football club founded
1929 Babe Ruth becomes the first man to hit 500 home runs
1934 The first federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in the San Francisco Bay
1945 The Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito
1948 The Summer Olympics open in London
1951 The first color baseball game is telecast from New York City
1952 Hussein is proclaimed the King of Jordan
1956 Elvis Presley releases "Don't Be Cruel"
1962 Beach Boys release "Surfin' Safari"
1963 The Kingston Trio is the mystery guest on "What's My Line?"
1964 Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" opens in New York City
1965 The six days of violence starts in the Watts section of Los Angeles
1965 Beatles movie "Help" opens in New York City
1971 Construction begins on the Louisiana Superdome
1974 Lee Trevino wins the PGA championship
1975 The US vetoes proposed admission of North and South Vietnam to UN
1978 Funeral of Pope Paul VI
1980 Reggie Jackson hit his 400th home run
1984 Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat: wins 4 Olympic Gold Medals
1984 During a radio voice test, President Reagan jokingly said that he had "Signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes."
1985 Hubert Green wins the PGA championship
1986 Bob Tway wins the PGA championship
1990 Egypt and Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent an Iraqi invasion
1991 Shite Muslims release their US hostage Edward Tracy

1778 Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
1823 Charlotte Mary Yonge
1833 Robert Green Ingersoll
1837 Sadi Carnot
1862 Carrie Jacobs Bond
1867 Joseph Weber
1892 Hugh MacDiarmid
1897 Louise Bogan
1900 Alexander Mosolov
1900 Charles Paddock
1902 Lloyd Nolan
1911 Henry Kulky
1912 Jean Parker
1913 Sir Angus Wilson
1920 William Masselos
1921 Alex Haley
1924 Arlene Dahl
1925 Carl Rowan
1925 Mike Douglas
1926 Claus Von Bulow
1927 Raymond Leppard
1929 Alun Hoddinott
1930 William A. O'Neal
1933 Jerry Falwell
1937 Anna Massey
1940 Kip King
1941 Elizabeth Holtzman
1942 Mike Hugg
1946 Marilyn Vos Savant (world's highest IQ in the Guinness Book)
1947 Jeff Hanna
1947 Sergey Kovalneko
1949 Eric Carmen
1949 Ian Charleson
1950 Erik Brann
1950 Steve Wozniak
1952 Ann Michelle
1953 Hulk Hogan aka Terry Bollea
1953 Sanford Jensen
1954 Lina Polito
1955 Joe Jackson
1959 Linda Rhys Vaughn
1969 Eddie Garcia
1971 Julie Anne Clark from Tucson Arizona