August 11th in history
August 11th
1093 Foundation stone for the new Norman Durham cathedral laid by Bishop William of St. Calais in England.
The Normans occupied the lowland areas of Glamorgan soon after their conquest of England and on 11th August 1107, under the instruction of King Henry I, Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury consecrated Urban as the first purely Norman bishop of the church of Glamorgan. This was renamed the diocese of Llandaff sometime between 1115 and 1119.
1415 Henry V of England and an army of 12,000 sail from Southampton, England, bound for France on a campaign to reassert English sovereignty .
1908 King Edward VII of Britain meets with Emperor Wilhelm of Friedrichshof, Germany; the main point of contention is the increasing size of Germany's navy.
1919 Green Bay Packers football club is founded by George Calhoun and Curly Lambeau and is named after sponsor Indian Packing Company.
1968 The Fifteen Guinea Special is the last main-line steam passenger train service in Britain. A selection of British Rail steam locomotives makes a return 120-mile journey from Liverpool to Carlisle before having their fires dropped for the last time.
On 11th August 2008, a re-survey of Mynydd Graig Goch in the Moel Hebog group of Snowdonia’s summits, determined its height to be 2,000ft 6in rather than the 1998ft previously recorded, therefore, qualifying it as a mountain.
11 Aug 1967
Small Faces, The Move, Marmalade, Paul Jones, Pink Floyd, Amen Corner, Donovan, Zoot Money, Cream, Jeff Beck, John Mayall, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac and The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown all appeared at this years UK Reading festival. An advance 3 day ticket cost £2. Arthur Brown's trademark flaming helmet burnt out of control and organiser Harold Pendleton's father-in-law had to douse the flames with a pint of beer.
11 Aug 1966
At a press conference held at The Astor Towers Hotel in Chicago, John Lennon apologised for his remarks that The Beatles were ‘more popular than Jesus'. Lennon told reporters "Look, I wasn’t saying The Beatles are better than God or Jesus, I said ‘Beatles’ because it’s easy for me to talk about The Beatles. I could have said ‘TV’ or ‘Cinema’, ‘Motorcars’ or anything popular and would have got away with it’’.
1093 Foundation stone for the new Norman Durham cathedral laid by Bishop William of St. Calais in England.
The Normans occupied the lowland areas of Glamorgan soon after their conquest of England and on 11th August 1107, under the instruction of King Henry I, Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury consecrated Urban as the first purely Norman bishop of the church of Glamorgan. This was renamed the diocese of Llandaff sometime between 1115 and 1119.
1415 Henry V of England and an army of 12,000 sail from Southampton, England, bound for France on a campaign to reassert English sovereignty .
1908 King Edward VII of Britain meets with Emperor Wilhelm of Friedrichshof, Germany; the main point of contention is the increasing size of Germany's navy.
1919 Green Bay Packers football club is founded by George Calhoun and Curly Lambeau and is named after sponsor Indian Packing Company.
1968 The Fifteen Guinea Special is the last main-line steam passenger train service in Britain. A selection of British Rail steam locomotives makes a return 120-mile journey from Liverpool to Carlisle before having their fires dropped for the last time.
On 11th August 2008, a re-survey of Mynydd Graig Goch in the Moel Hebog group of Snowdonia’s summits, determined its height to be 2,000ft 6in rather than the 1998ft previously recorded, therefore, qualifying it as a mountain.
11 Aug 1967
Small Faces, The Move, Marmalade, Paul Jones, Pink Floyd, Amen Corner, Donovan, Zoot Money, Cream, Jeff Beck, John Mayall, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac and The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown all appeared at this years UK Reading festival. An advance 3 day ticket cost £2. Arthur Brown's trademark flaming helmet burnt out of control and organiser Harold Pendleton's father-in-law had to douse the flames with a pint of beer.
11 Aug 1966
At a press conference held at The Astor Towers Hotel in Chicago, John Lennon apologised for his remarks that The Beatles were ‘more popular than Jesus'. Lennon told reporters "Look, I wasn’t saying The Beatles are better than God or Jesus, I said ‘Beatles’ because it’s easy for me to talk about The Beatles. I could have said ‘TV’ or ‘Cinema’, ‘Motorcars’ or anything popular and would have got away with it’’.
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