What happened on August 11?

August 11 is day 223 of the year, day 224 in leap years. August 11 holds significant historical turning points: in 1919, Reich President Friedrich Ebert signed the Weimar Constitution, and in 1990, the FDP and three liberal East German parties merged to form the first all-German party. In addition, in 1950, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was born.

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Events on August 11

1806 King Frederick William III orders the establishment of the first Prussian school for the blind.
1899 Kaiser Wilhelm II opens the Dortmund-Ems Canal. This gives the eastern Ruhr area a waterway to the North Sea.
1919 Reich President Friedrich Ebert signs the Constitution of the Weimar Republic. At the same time, the black-white-red flag is also replaced by the black-red-gold colors.
1922 Reich President Friedrich Ebert designates the Song of the Germans as the national anthem of the German Reich.
1934 The first prisoners are brought to the prison island of Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay.
1957 The world premiere of Paul Hindemith's opera The Harmony of the World takes place at the Prinzregententheater in Munich.
1984 U.S. President Ronald Reagan jokes during a microphone test that he has ordered the bombing of the Soviet Union, which is to begin in five minutes. The joke causes international unease.
1984 Reiner Klimke wins the individual dressage competition at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles with his horse Ahlerich. With a total of five gold and three bronze medals, he is the most successful German equestrian of all time.
1986 A Westland Lynx AH MK. 1 reaches 400.87 km/h and thereby sets the helicopter speed record valid until 2013.
1989 The East German writer Stefan Heym expresses concern on ARD television about the wave of people fleeing, which “threatens to destroy the entire GDR”.
1990 The FDP and the three liberal parties of East Germany merge to form the first all-German party.
1999 A total solar eclipse can be observed in Central Europe.

Born on August 11

1861 Albert Boehringer, German businessman in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries (Boehringer Ingelheim)
1879 Frieda von Richthofen, German writer and translator
1883 Ernst Stadler, German writer and Expressionist lyric poet
1921 Alex Haley, American writer
1932 Fernando Arrabal, Spanish-French writer and film director
1943 Herbert Laumen, German footballer
1950 Steve Wozniak, American computer engineer and entrepreneur, co-founder of Apple Computer
1970 Andy Bell, British musician
1982 Jasmin Schwiers, German actress
1993 Alyson Stoner, American actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „11. August“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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