Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 11

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  Hedy Lamarr
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  Hedy Lamarr
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  Pope Alexander VI
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  City Hall, Penang
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  Andriyan Nikolayev
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  DJ Kool Herc
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  Hussein of Jordan

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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.	refimprove section
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).	disputed date; legendary event
1919 – The Weimar Republic adopted its constitution to establish a liberal democracy in Germany.	Republic: refimprove sections; Constitution: refimprove section
1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil received a patent for their "Secret Communications System", an early technique of frequency-hopping spread spectrum that later became the basis for many forms of today's wireless communication systems.	Antheil: unreferenced section
1962 – Vostok 3 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andriyan Nikolayev became the first person to float in microgravity.	refimprove section
1965 – Violent race riots began in Watts, Los Angeles, California, lasting for six days and leaving 34 people dead and 1,032 others injured.	refimprove section, expansion
1988 – Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam and several senior leaders of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad formed what is now known as Al-Qaeda to continue jihad elsewhere around the world after the Soviet war in Afghanistan ended.	outdated, expansion
Reid Blackburn |b|1952|	Birthday not cited
Nicola Zagame |b|1990	Needs update for career 2013-2016

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• 1309 – Reconquista: Aragonese forces led by King James II landed on the coast of Almería, beginning an ultimately unsuccessful siege of the city, then held by the Emirate of Granada.
• 1492 – The first conclave to be held in the Sistine Chapel elected Roderic Borja as Pope Alexander VI to succeed Innocent VIII.
• 1786 – Francis Light founded George Town (city hall pictured), the first British settlement in Southeast Asia and the present-day capital of the Malaysian state of Penang.
• 1929 – The first Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic, the oldest and largest African-American parade in the United States, was held in Chicago.
• 1945 – Amid rumors of kidnappings of children by Jews in Kraków, a crowd of Poles took part in a pogrom, resulting in at least one death.
• 1973 – At a party in New York City, Jamaican musician DJ Kool Herc (pictured) began rapping during an extended break, laying the foundation for hip hop music.
• 1979 – Two Aeroflot passenger jets collided in mid-air near Dniprodzerzhynsk in the Ukrainian SSR, killing all 178 people on both aircraft.
• 1999 – Ken Levine's System Shock 2 was released to mediocre sales, but later received critical acclaim and influenced subsequent first-person shooter game design.
• 2012 – At least 306 people were killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.

• Born/died this day: | John Hunyadi |d|1456| Hamnet Shakespeare |bur|1596| James B. Longacre |b|1794| Andreas Vogt |b|1880| Enid Blyton |b|1897| Kaname Harada|b|1916| Tom Kilburn |b|1921| Aaron Klug |b|1926| Chanchal Kumar Majumdar |b|1938| Ian McDiarmid |b|1944| Pablo Sandoval |b|1986| Jacqueline Fernandez |b|1985| Clare Nott |b|1986| John Smyth |d|2018|

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• 106 – The region of Dacia, comprising parts of modern Romania, became a province of the Roman Empire.
• 1952 – King Talal of Jordan was forced to abdicate due to mental illness and was succeeded by his eldest son Hussein.
• 1975 – The Timorese Democratic Union launched a coup in Portuguese Timor, starting the East Timorese civil war.
• 1977 – The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration initiated an investigation into the alleged vulnerability of the Ford Pinto (example pictured) to fuel leakage and fire in a rear-end collision.
• 1999 – A tornado struck downtown Salt Lake City, damaging 120 homes and injuring over 100 people.