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| Birthday December 11, 1781 Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist, inventor of kaleidoscope |
| Birthday December 11, 1803 Hector Berlioz, in France, composer |
| Birthday December 11, 1863 Annie Jump Cannon, American stellar spectroscopist |
| Birthday December 11, 1882 Fiorello La Guardia, (R), mayor of NYC (1933-45) |
| Birthday December 11, 1882 Max Born, German physicist (Nobel 1954) |
| Birthday December 11, 1905 Gilbert Roland, Actor (Barbarosa) |
| Birthday December 11, 1913 Carlo Ponti, director |
| Birthday December 11, 1918 Alexander Solzhenitsyn is born |
| Birthday December 11, 1918 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer (Cancer Ward) (Nobel 1970) |
| Birthday December 11, 1931 Rita Moreno, Actress (The King and I, West Side Story) in Puerto Rico |
| Birthday December 11, 1937 Anne Heywood |
| Birthday December 11, 1944 Donna Mills, in Chicago Illinois |
| Birthday December 11, 1944 Brenda Lee, in Atlanta Georgia |
| Birthday December 11, 1944 Tootsie actress Teri Garr born |
| Birthday December 11, 1945 Lynda Day-George, in Tennessee |
| Birthday December 11, 1947 Elizabeth Baur, in Cal |
| Birthday December 11, 1950 Christine Onasis, in NYC |
| Birthday December 11, 1962 Kim Linehan, swimmer |
| History December 11, 1777 British delay Washington's march to Valley Forge |
| History December 11, 1815 Madison presents trade agreement to Congress |
| History December 11, 1816 Indiana becomes 19th state |
| History December 11, 1862 Federals occupy Fredericksburg |
| History December 11, 1872 Buffalo Bill Cody makes his first stage appearance |
| History December 11, 1888 French Panama Canal company fails |
| History December 11, 1914 Stockton Street Tunnel (SF) completed |
| History December 11, 1915 Yuan Shih-kai accepts Chinese throne |
| History December 11, 1917 German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia |
| History December 11, 1932 Snow falls in SF |
| History December 11, 1936 King Edward VIII of England abdicates for woman he loves |
| History December 11, 1941 Germany declares war on the United States |
| History December 11, 1941 Japanese occupy Guam |
| History December 11, 1944 Toronto endures record snowstorm |
| History December 11, 1946 UNICEF founded |
| History December 11, 1946 UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965) |
| History December 11, 1953 KTVA Anchorage becomes Alaska's 1st TV station |
| History December 11, 1954 USS Forrestal christened in Newport News Va |
| History December 11, 1958 Upper Volta (now Bourkina Fasso) gains autonomy from France |
| History December 11, 1959 Yanks trade Marv Thronberry Don Larsen Hank Bauer & Norm Seibern for Roger Maris Kent Hadley & Joe Deaestri |
| History December 11, 1961 First U.S. helicopters arrive in South Vietnam. |
| History December 11, 1961 JFK provides US milt helicopters & crews to South Vietnam |
| History December 11, 1962 NYC authorities jettison plans for expressway across Lower Manhattan |
| History December 11, 1964 Sam Cooke dies under suspicious circumstances in LA |
| History December 11, 1969 Soviets declare nudity a sign of western decadence |
| History December 11, 1969 Paratroopers depart South Vietnam |
| History December 11, 1970 John Lennon release an album that contains songs with word "fuck" |
| History December 11, 1975 Great Yankee trade getting Willie Randolph Dock Ellis & Ken Brett from Pirates for George 'Doc' Medich |
| History December 11, 1975 1st class postage rises from 10› to 13› |
| History December 11, 1981 Muhammad Ali vs. Trevor Berbick |
| History December 11, 1994 Yeltsin orders Russian forces into Chechnya |
| History December 11, 2008 Billionaire conman Bernard Madoff arrested |