WHAT HAPPENED ON 11. AUGUST
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founding father of Pakistan, gives a speech to the Constituent Assembly, the contents and meaning of which remain contentious today. (11. August 1947)

Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan. (11. August 1952)

Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens. (11. August 1959)

Chad declares independence. (11. August 1960)

The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli. (11. August 1961)

Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity. (11. August 1962)

Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California. (11. August 1965)

The last steam hauled train runs on British Rail (11. August 1968)

Vietnam War: the last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam. (11. August 1972)

East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin. (11. August 1975)

A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one teenager and injuring 15 passengers. (11. August 1982)

"We begin bombing in five minutes" – United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio. (11. August 1984)

The Salt Lake City Tornado tears through the downtown district of the city, killing one. (11. August 1999)

NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history. (11. August 2003)

Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand. (11. August 2003)

The oil tanker M/T Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill. (11. August 2006)

At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran. (11. August 2012)