Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 11

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 * 106 – The region of Dacia, comprising parts of modern Romania, became a province of the Roman Empire.
 * 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.
 * 1786 – Francis Light founded George Town, the first British settlement in Southeast Asia and the present-day capital of the Malaysian state of Penang.
 * 1952 – King Talal of Jordan was forced to abdicate due to mental illness and was succeeded by his eldest son Hussein.
 * 1977 – The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration initiated an investigation into the alleged vulnerability of the Ford Pinto to fuel leakage and fire in a rear-end collision.
 * 1979 – Two Aeroflot passenger jets collided in mid-air near Dniprodzerzhynsk in the Ukrainian SSR, killing all 178 people on both aircraft.
 * 1999 – The Salt Lake City Tornado hit downtown Salt Lake City, damaging 120 homes and injuring over 100 people.
 * 1999 – Ken Levine's System Shock 2 was released to mediocre sales, but was critically acclaimed and highly 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| William W. Chapman |b|1808| Kaname Harada|b|1916| Tom Kilburn |b|1921| Aaron Klug |b|1926| Chanchal Kumar Majumdar |b|1938| Steve Wozniak |b|1950| Wanda Wesołowska |b|1950| Reid Blackburn |b|1952| Pablo Sandoval |b|1986| Jacqueline Fernandez |b|1985 Clare Nott |b|1986

August 11: Independence Day in Chad (1960)


 * 1492 – The first papal conclave to be held in the Sistine Chapel elected Roderic Borja as Pope Alexander VI to succeed Innocent VIII.
 * 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.