📜 This Day in History
August 11
- 106The region of Dacia, comprising parts of modern Romania, became a province of the Roman Empire.
- 1786Francis Light founded George Town, the first British settlement in Southeast Asia and the present-day capital of the Malaysian state of Penang.
- 1952King Talal of Jordan was forced to abdicate due to mental illness and was succeeded by his eldest son, Hussein.
- 1975The Timorese Democratic Union launched a coup in Portuguese Timor, starting the East Timorese civil war.
- 1992The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, opened as the largest shopping mall in the United States.
- 2012At least 306 people were killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.
