On this day in History - Dec. 11

• 0361 - Juliano, o Apóstata, por ter renegado o cristianismo e restabelecido a religião oficial romana, entra triunfalmente em Constantinopla, sendo nomeado Imperador.
• 0384 - Pope Damasus I dies.
• 1121 - Al-Afdal Shahanshah dies (b. 1066). Caliph of Egypt.
• 1226 - Robert de Ros dies (b. 1177). English politician.
• 1282 - Llywelyn the Last dies in battle. Welsh Prince of Gwynedd.
• 1282 - Michael VIII Palaeologus dies (b. 1225). Byzantine Emperor
• 1465 - Ashikaga Yoshihisa was born (d. 1489). Japanese shogun.
• 1474 - Enrique IV de Castilla y León dies.
• 1475 - Pope Leo X was born (d. 1521).
• 1513 - Bernardino Pinturicchio dies. Italian painter.
• 1532 - Pietro Accolti dies (b. 1455). Italian Catholic cardinal.
• 1566 - Manuel Cardoso was born (d. 1650). Portuguese composer.
• 1602 - A surprise attack by forces under the command of the Duke of Savoy and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain, is repelled by the citizens of Geneva. (This actually took place after midnight, in the early morning of December 12, but commemorations/celebrations on Fête de l'Escalade are usually held on December 11 or the closest weekend.)
• 1680 - Emanuele d'Astorga was born. Italian composer.
• 1694 - Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma dies (b. 1630)
• 1712 - Francesco Algarotti was born (d. 1764). Italian philosopher.
• 1725 - George Mason was born (d. 1792). American statesman.
• 1737 - John Strype was born (d. 1643). English historian and biographer.
• 1757 - Edmund Curll was born (b. 1675). English bookseller and publisher.
• 1769 - Paul Revere becomes initiated into The Free masons
• 1781 - Sir David Brewster was born (d. 1868). British physicist.
• 1792 - French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
• 1797 - Richard Brocklesby dies (b. 1722). British physician.
• 1801 - Christian Dietrich Grabbe was born (d. 1836). German writer.
• 1803 - Louis-Hector Berlioz was born (d. 1869). French composer.
• 1807 - Motim em Lisboa, motivado pelo içar da bandeira francesa no castelo de São Jorge, após uma parada militar pelo exército francês de ocupação, comandado pelo general Junot.
• 1810 - Alfred de Musset was born (d. 1857). French poet.
• 1816 - Indiana became the 19th state.
• 1826 - Maria Leopoldina de Áustria dies (b. 1797). First emperess of Brazil.
• 1838 - Francisco Manuel Trigoso dies (b. 1777). Portuguese politician.
• 1840 - Emperor Kokaku of Japan dies (b. 1771)
• 1843 - Robert Koch was born (d. 1910). German bacteriologist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1844 - Nitrous oxide was used for the first time in dentistry.
• 1845 - Começo da primeira Guerra Anglo-Sikh na Índia, com o ataque dos Sikhs a forças coloniais britânicas. Os Sikhs foram derrotados após quatro batalhas, e a região do Punjab foi anexada pelos britânicos
• 1858 - Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko was born (d. 1943). Russian-born Soviet theatre .
• 1863 - Annie Jump Cannon was born (d. 1941). American astronomer.
• 1873 - Josip Plemelj was born (d. 1967). Austro-Hungarian-born Yugoslav mathematician.
• 1880 - Frank Tarrant was born (d. 1951). Australian cricketer.
• 1882 - Subramanya Bharathy was born (d. 1921). Indian poet.
• 1882 - Max Born was born (d. 5 Jan 1970). German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in 1954, with Walther Bothe of Germany, for his statistical formulation of the behaviour of subatomic particles
• 1882 - Fiorello LaGuardia was born (d. 1947). Mayor of New York City.
• 1883 - Victor McLaglen was born (d. 1959). British-born American actor.
• 1890 - Mark Tobey was born (d. 1976). American painter.
• 1890 - Carlos Gardel (Charles Romuald Gardés) was born in Toulouse (d. 24 Jun 1935). French-Argentine singer of Tango.
• 1893 - Alceu Amoroso Lima (Tristão de Ataíde) was born in Petropólis (d. 14 Ago 1983). Brazilian literary critic and poligrapher.
• 1905 - Gilbert Roland was born (d. 1994). American actor.
• 1908 - Elliott Carter was born. American composer.
• 1909 - Innokenty Annensky dies (b. 1855). Russian poet .
• 1910 - Noel Rosa was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian singer and composer.
• 1911 - Naguib Mahfouz was born. Egyptian writer and Nobel Prize laureate
• 1912 - Carlo Ponti was born. Italian film producer.
• 1913 - Jean Marais was born (d. 1998). French actor.
• 1916 - Dámaso Pérez Prado was born (d. 1989). Cuban-born bandleader and composer.
• 1918 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born. Russian Writer, 1970 Nobel Prize laureate
• 1919 - Marie Windsor was born (d. 2000). American actress.
• 1920 - Big Mama Thornton (Willie Mae Thornton) was born (d. 1984). American blues singer
• 1920 - Olive Schreiner dies (b. 1855). South African writer.
• 1922 - Grace Paley was born. American writer
• 1925 - Bernardino Machado substitui Manuel Teixeira Gomes no cargo de presidente da República Portuguesa.
• 1925 - Paul Greengard was born. American neuroscientist and Nobel Prize laureate
• 1927 - Guangzhou Uprising: Communist militia and worker red guards launch an uprising in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet.
• 1928 - police in Buenos Aires thwarted an attempt on the life of President-elect Herbert Hoover.
• 1930 - Jean-Louis Trintignant was born. French actor.
• 1931 - The British Parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster, which establishes a status of legislative equality between the self-governing dominions of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of Canada, the Irish Free State, Newfoundland, the Dominion of New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa.
• 1931 - Rita Moreno was born. Puerto Rican singer, dancer, and actress
• 1933 - Aquilino Pimentel, Jr. was born. Filipino politician
• 1934 - A fire at the Hotel Kerns in Lansing, Michigan, kills 34 people.
• 1935 - Pranab Mukherjee was born. Indian politician
• 1936 - Taku Yamasaki was born. Japanese politician
• 1936 - King Edward VIII abdicated the throne of Britain in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.
• 1937 - Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations
• 1938 - McCoy Tyner was born. American jazz pianist
• 1938 - Christian Lous Lange dies (b. 1869). Norwegian pacifist and recipient of Nobel Prize laureate
• 1939 - Tom Hayden was born. American politician
• 1941 - Germany and Italy declared war on the United States.
• 1941 - John Gillespie Magee, Jr. dies (b. 1922). American poet and aviator.
• 1943 - John Kerry was born. American politician and Presidential candidate
• 1944 - Brenda Lee was born. American singer.
• 1944 - Teri Garr was born. American film actress.
• 1945 - Charles Fabry was born (d. 1867). French physicist.
• 1946 - The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was established.
• 1950 - Christina Onassis was born (d. 1988). American heiress.
• 1950 - Leslie Comrie dies (b. 1893). New Zealand-born astronomer and computing pioneer.
• 1954 - The American Nuclear Society is founded.
• 1954 - Jermaine Jackson was born. American singer and bassist.
• 1957 - Musidora (Jeanne Roques) dies (b. 1889). French actress and director.
• 1958 - Nikki Sixx was born. American bassist (Mötley Crüe)
• 1958 - Upper Volta declares its independence from France
• 1961 - Urbano Ortega was born. Uruguyan football player.
• 1964 - Cosy Sheridan was born. American singer and songwriter.
• 1964 - Sam Cooke dies (b. 1931). American singer.
• 1964 - Tuca Andrada was born in Recife. Brazilian actor.
• 1966 - Leon Lai was born. Chinese-born Canadian actor and Cantopop singer
• 1969 - Vishwanathan Anand was born. Indian chess grandmaster. World Champion in 2000.
• 1970 - John Lennon releases the album Plastic Ono Band.
• 1971 - The United States Libertarian Party is formed.
• 1972 - Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and, to date, last mission to land on the Moon.
• 1972 - Dana Macsim was born. Romanian television news reporter
• 1972 - Paulo Jorge da Silva Santos was born in Lisbon. Portuguese football player (goalkeeper of Sp. Braga)
• 1974 - Rey Mysterio was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1978 - Vincent du Vigneaud dies (b. 1901). American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1979 - Rider Strong was born. American actor (Boy Meets World)
• 1980 - Dr Apollo Milton Obote is finally returned to power in Uganda
• 1981 - In his last fight, Muhammad Ali loses to Trevor Berbick.
• 1981 - Javier Pérez de Cuéllar becomes UN Secretary-General
• 1981 - El Mozote massacre: Salvadoran armed forces kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign durin the country's civil war.
• 1981 - Clube de Regatas do Flamengo defeat Liverpool F.C in the final of the Intercontinental Cup in Tokyo.
• 1981 - Javier Saviola was born. Argentine international footballer and Olympic gold medalist.
• 1983 - Sir Neil Ritchie dies (b. 1897). British general.
• 1984 - Carlos Alberto Gomes de Jesus was born. Brazilian football player.
• 1990 - Mafia: New York mafioso John Gotti is arrested.
• 1991 - Artur Lundkvist dies. Swedish writer.
• 1994 - A bomb assembled by Ramzi Yousef explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, killing a Japanese businessman.
• 1994 -Russian troups invade Chechnya in an unsuccessful attempt to restore Moscow's power in the region.
• 1996 - Willie Rushton dies (b. 1937). British cartoonist, satirist, and actor.
• 1997 - Housing secretary Henry Cisneros is indicted for conspiracy, obstructing justice, and false statements to the FBI.
• 1998 - A Thai Airways Airbus A310-200 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101.
• 2001 - Members of the DrinkOrDie warez group are arrested in police raids.
• 2001 - The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization.
• 2002 - Carlos Zara dies (b. 1930). Brazilian actor.
• 2003 - Ahmadou Kourouma dies (b. 1927). Côte d'Ivoire writer.
• 2004 - M.S. Subbulakshmi dies (b. 1916). Indian singer.
• Roman festivals - One of the four Agonalia, this day in honour of Sol Indiges; also the Septimontium festival
• R.C. Saints - pope Damasus I: optional memorial; also Daniel the Stylite (not universal)
• Argentina - Tango Day, Buenos Aires
• Burkina Faso - Republic Day
• Portimão (Portugal) : Municipal holiday