Let’s take you through the pages of history and see which of these major events you know. This list of historic events that happened on December 11 will leave you enlightened.
- 1913 – “Mona Lisa” was recovered 2 years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum.
- 1916 – David Lloyd George formed the British war government.
- 1934 – Ford C Frick became president of baseball’s National League.
- 1936 – King Edward VIII was abdicated from the British throne.
- 1937 – Italy withdrew from the League of Nations.
- 1941 – The U.S. declared war on Germany and Italy.
- 1946 – The establishment of UNICEF.
- 1947 – Pacific Coast League application for major league status got rejected.
- 1950 – British Physicist Cecil Frank Powell was awarded Nobel Prize in Physics for his study of nuclear processes and the discovery of the pion.
- 1964 – Che Guevara spoke at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City when a terrorist fired a bomb during his speech.
- 1992 – US President George W. Bush awarded actress and humanitarian Audrey Hepburn the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
- 1997 – Kyoto Protocol was adopted; an international treaty that calls for the restriction of greenhouse gasses by the signatories.
- 2006 – International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust was opened in Tehran.
- 2009 – Tiger Woods announced an indefinite leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage.
- 2009 – A Finnish puzzle video game known as Angry Birds was released internationally.
- 2012 – Stephen Hawking, won the $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize.
- 2013 – Pope Francis was named Time magazine’s person of the year.
- 2017 – Attempted suicide terrorist bomb attack in New York.
- 2018 – According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Report, the Arctic is experiencing “unprecedented warmth” caused by human-caused climate change.
- 2019 – Climate activist Greta Thunberg was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year.