August 11 birthdays & history

Famous people born on August 11

• 1943Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani general and politician, 10th President of Pakistan
• 1950Steve Wozniak, American computer scientist and programmer, co-founded Apple Inc.
• 1983Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor
• 1897Enid Blyton, English author, poet, and educator
• 1953Hulk Hogan, American professional wrestler
• 1965Viola Davis, American actress
• 1858Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1926Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1967Massimiliano Allegri, Italian footballer and manager
• 1985Jacqueline Fernandez, Bahraini–Sri Lankan actress

What happened on August 11

• 106The region of Dacia, comprising parts of modern Romania, became a province of the Roman Empire.
• 1492The first conclave to be held in the Sistine Chapel elected Roderic Borja as Pope Alexander VI to succeed Innocent VIII.
• 1786Francis Light founded George Town, the first British settlement in Southeast Asia and the present-day capital of the Malaysian state of Penang.
• 1804Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria.
• 1813In Colombia, Juan del Corral declares the independence of Antioquia.
• 1858The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.
• 1919Germany's Weimar Constitution is signed into law.
• 1929The first Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic, the oldest and largest African-American parade in the United States, was held in Chicago.
• 1929Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
• 1942Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones, two-way radio communications, and Wi-Fi.
• 1973At a party in New York City, Jamaican musician DJ Kool Herc began rapping during an extended break, laying the foundation for hip hop music.
• 1992The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, opened as the largest shopping mall in the United States.

Also observed on August 11

• Flag Day (Pakistan)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Chad from France in 1960.
• Mountain Day (Japan)