Alexander I or Aleksandar Obrenović ( Cyrillic: Александар Обреновић ; 14 August 1876 – 11 June 1903 ) was king of Serbia from 1889 to 1903 when he and his wife, Queen Draga, were assassinated by a group of Army officers, led by Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević

On 11 August 2009, a magnitude 7 earthquake struck near the Andaman Islands, causing a tsunami warning to go into effect.

Alphonse of Poitiers ( 11 November 1220 – 21 August 1271 ) was the Count of Poitou from 1225 and Count of Toulouse ( as Alfonso II ) from 1247.

Andrew Carnegie (, but commonly or ; November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919 ) was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.

Carnegie's grave site at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in North Tarrytown, New York. The footstone of Andrew CarnegieCarnegie died on August 11, 1919, in Lenox, Massachusetts of bronchial pneumonia.

Before his death on August 11, 1919, Carnegie had donated $ 350, 695, 654 for various causes.

On August 11, 2008, Dallas Buck, RHP Micah Owings, and C Wilkin Castillo were traded to the Reds ( in last place in the NL Central at the time ) in exchange for OF Adam Dunn.

** August 11 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

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Admiral Arthur Phillip RN ( 11 October 173831 August 1814 ) was the first Governor of New South Wales, and founder of the settlement which became Sydney.

On August 11, 1973, DJ Kool Herc was a D. J.

" By a series of brilliant marches Marlborough concentrated his forces on Donauwörth and, by noon 11 August, the link-up was complete.

During 11 August, Tallard pushed forward from the river crossings at Dillingen ; by 12 August, the Franco-Bavarian forces were encamped behind the small river Nebel near the village of Blenheim on the plain of Höchstädt.

In a news update to the official website on 11 August 2010, it was revealed that their eighth studio album would be titled Belle & Sebastian Write About Love.

Canyon of Heroes during a ticker-tape parade for the Apollo 11 astronaut s on August 13, 1969

The battle was continued for 11 days, between 29 July and 9 August over 20 km of a maze of forests and mountains with no conclusion.

The orbiter arrived back at Kennedy Space Center on 11 August 1985.

On 11 August 1960, Chad became an independent country and François Tombalbaye became its first President.

On 11 August 2006, Chad and Sudan resumed relations at the behest of Libyan president Muammar al-Gaddafi.

At the 9 August 2008 Legislative Assembly general election it gained a significant swing, gaining 11 out of the 25 seats.

Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 ) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

* 1872 – Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal ( d. 1962 )

* Colonel Safar Abiyev ( June – August 1993 )

* Maj .- Gen. Vahid Musayev ( August – September 1993 )

According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.

Over half of the tax revenues in the January – August 2008 time period were generated from value-added taxes ( VAT ).

* 1920 – Polish – Soviet War: the Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25.

:: K. Commodus ( 31 August 161 – 31 December 192 ), died without issue

* 1867 – Philipp August Böckh, German scholar and antiquarian ( b. 1785 )

Augustus (, September 23, 63 BC – August 19, 14 AD ) was the founder of the Roman Empire and its first Emperor, ruling from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD.

* 1907 – August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal ( d. 1947 )

* 1945 – Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender ( August 15 in Japan Standard Time ).

* 1921 – August Kowalczyk, Polish actor, director, and Holocaust survivor ( d. 2012 )

* 1945 – August Revolution: Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam.

* 1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine.

* 1920 – Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends.

An 87-day siege of a Croatian city by the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces, between August – November 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence

Alexander (; ) ( 5 August 1461 – 19 August 1506 ) of the House of Jagiellon was the Grand Duke of Lithuania and later also King of Poland.

Alexander II ( Mediaeval Gaelic: Alaxandair mac Uilliam ; Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Uilleim ) ( 24 August 1198 – 6 July 1249 ) was King of Scots from

Alexios I Komnenos, Latinized as Alexius I Comnenus (, 1056 – 15 August 1118 — note that some sources list his date of birth as 1048 ), was Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118, and although he was not the founder of the Komnenian dynasty, it was during his reign that the Komnenos family came to full power.

Afonso V (, originally Affonso ) KG ( 15 January 1432 – 28 August 1481 ), called the African (), was King of Portugal and the Algarves.

From the dry ground in late summer ( August in zone 7 ) each bulb produces one or two leafless stems 30 – 60 cm tall, each of which bears a cluster of 2 to 12 funnel-shaped flowers at their tops.