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Events on December 11

• 1875 In Bremerhaven, the attack on the emigrant ship Mosel is the deadliest terrorist bombing to date in Germany. An explosive device, part of a planned insurance fraud, explodes prematurely during the loading process and kills 83 people; around 200 people are injured.
• 1886 The English football team Dial Square, later renamed FC Arsenal, plays its first game. The Eastern Wanderers are defeated 6:0.
• 1930 One week after the German premiere, the screening of the film All Quiet on the Western Front, based on the novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque, is banned in the German Reich by the Supreme Film Review Office under Ernst Seeger following a large-scale campaign by the National Socialists.
• 1936 With the Abdication Act, the British Parliament gives its assent to Edward VIII's abdication. His younger brother George VI succeeds him.
• 1941 Germany and Italy declare war on the USA.
• 1946 The children's aid organization UNICEF is founded as a specialized agency of the United Nations.
• 1955 West German claim to sole representation: In an interview, the Hallstein Doctrine is explained to the public.
• 1963 The adventure film Winnetou, directed by Harald Reinl and based on Karl May, starring Pierre Brice and Lex Barker in the leading roles, opens in German cinemas.
• 1973 Eastern policy: The Agreement on the Mutual Relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic is signed in Prague by Willy Brandt and Walter Scheel. Among other things, it declares the Munich Agreement of 1938 null and void, but not the Beneš Decrees.
• 1981 Erich Honecker receives Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt at Hubertusstock Castle on Lake Werbellin on the occasion of the latter's state visit to the GDR.
• 1997 In Kyoto, the Kyoto Protocol is signed as a supplementary protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC): The agreement, which remains valid until 2012, sets binding targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which are regarded as a trigger for global warming.
• 2008 The first stable version of the Google Chrome web browser for Windows is released worldwide.

Born on December 11

• 1882 Max Born, German mathematician and physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1890 Carlos Gardel, Argentine tango singer
• 1911 Nagib Mahfuz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize winner
• 1913 Jean Marais, French actor
• 1930 Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor
• 1931 Rita Moreno, US-American actress and singer
• 1942 Frank Schöbel, German musician
• 1971 Steffen Hallaschka, German radio and television presenter
• 2000 Josha Vagnoman, German footballer
• 2001 Armel Bella-Kotchap, German footballer

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

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