Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 11
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August 11: Independence Day in Chad (1960)
- 3114 BC – The epoch of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, a non-repeating, vigesimal calendar used by the Maya civilization and several other Mesoamerican cultures, occurred.
- 1492 – The first papal conclave held in the Sistine Chapel elected Roderic Borja as Pope Alexander VI to succeed Pope Innocent VIII.
- 1828 – William Corder was hanged at Bury St Edmunds, England for murdering Maria Marten at the Red Barn.
- 1952 – King Talal of Jordan abdicated due to health reasons and was succeeded by his eldest son Hussein (pictured).
- 1965 – Violent race rioting began in the Watts district of Los Angeles, lasting for six days and left 34 people dead and 1,032 others injured.
- 1988 – Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam and several senior leaders of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad formed what is now known as Al-Qaeda to continue jihad elsewhere around the world after the Soviet war in Afghanistan ended.