This Day in History
11 Dec 1282
Llywelyn ab GruffyddLlywelyn the Last last native Prince of Wales is killed at Cilmeri near Builth Wells south Wales. Reigned from 1259.
11 Dec 1395
John Eleanor Rykener a male cross-dressing prostitute is brought to court in London for committing that detestable unmentionable and ignominious vice in late medieval Englands only recorded case on same-sex intercourse (verdict unknown)
11 Dec 1419
Heretic Nicolaas Serrurier exiled from Florence
11 Dec 1477
Duchess Maria of Burgundy ends the Great Privilege in states of The Netherlands
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Yeltsin orders Russian forces into Chechnya
In the largest Russian military offensive since the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks pour into the breakaway Russian repu...
UNICEF founded
In the aftermath of World War II the General Assembly of the United Nations votes to establish the United Nations International Childrens Emergency Fun...
NYC authorities jettison plans for expressway across Lower Manhattan
On December 11 1962 the New York City Board of Estimate unanimously votes against a plan for a 100 million elevated expressway across the bottom of Manhattan...
Edward VIII abdicates
After ruling for less than one year Edward VIII becomes the first English monarch to voluntarily abdicate the throne. He chose to abdicate after the British go...
Germany declares war on the United States
On this day Adolf Hitler declares war on the United States bringing America which had been neutral into the European conflict.The bombing of Pearl Harbor su...
Paratroopers depart South Vietnam
Paratroopers from the U.S. Third Brigade 82nd Airborne Division depart from Vietnam.The unit was sent to Vietnam in February 1968 as an emergency measure in r...
First U.S. helicopters arrive in South Vietnam.
The ferry carrier USNS Core arrives in Saigon with the first U.S. helicopter unit. This contingent included 33 Vertol H-21C Shawnee helicopters and 400 air an...
Muhammad Ali vs. Trevor Berbick
On this day in 1981 the Jamaican boxer Trevor Berbick beat former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali in a unanimous 10-round decision before a crowd of 10000 ...
Madison presents trade agreement to Congress
On this day in 1815 President James Madison (1809-1817) presents to Congress a trade agreement with Great Britain that would regulate commerce between the two ...
Buffalo Bill Cody makes his first stage appearance
Already appearing as a well-known figure of the Wild West in popular dime novels Buffalo Bill Cody makes his first stage appearance on this day in a Chicago-b...
Sam Cooke dies under suspicious circumstances in LA
On December 11 1964 in response to a reported shooting officers of the Los Angeles Police Department were dispatched to the Hacienda Motel where they found ...
Alexander Solzhenitsyn is born
On this day in 1918 Alexander Solzhenitsyn is born in the Caucasus Mountains in Russia.Solzhenitsyns father an artillery officer on the German front i...
Tootsie actress Teri Garr born
On this day in 1944 the actress Teri Garr who will rise to fame in Hollywood in the 1970s with such hit films as Oh God and Close Encounters of the Third Ki...
Toronto endures record snowstorm
The city of Toronto Canada is battered with its worst-ever snowfall on this day in 1944. Twenty-one people died as a result of the record storm in which near...
Federals occupy Fredericksburg
On this day in 1862 the Union Army of the Potomac occupies Fredericksburg Virginia as General Ambrose Burnside continues to execute his plan to capture the C...
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