December 11 Historical Events

The following events took place on December 11. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 50 events. Showing 31 - 50.

• 1968
  The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, featuring the Rolling Stones, Jethro Tull, the Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, and the Dirty Mac with Yoko Ono, is filmed in Wembley, London.
• 1972
  Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and last Apollo mission to land on the Moon.
• 1978
  The Lufthansa heist is committed by a group led by Lucchese family associate Jimmy Burke. It was the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil, at that time.
• 1980
  The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund) is enacted by the U.S. Congress.
• 1981
  El Mozote massacre: Armed forces in El Salvador kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the Salvadoran Civil War.
• 1990
  Demonstrations by students and workers across Albania begin, which eventually trigger the fall of communism in Albania.
• 1993
  Forty-eight people are killed when a block of the Highland Towers collapses near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• 1994
  First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya.
• 1994
  A bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, en route from Manila, Philippines, to Tokyo, Japan, killing one. The captain is able to safely land the plane.
• 1997
  The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature.

• 1998
  Thai Airways Flight 261 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101. The pilot flying the Airbus A310-300 is thought to have suffered spatial disorientation.
• 2001
  The People’s Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization.
• 2005
  The Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in Hemel Hempstead, England, United Kingdom.
• 2005
  Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese (and many who are not) in Cronulla, New South Wales, Australia. These are followed up by retaliatory ethnic attacks on Cronulla.
• 2006
  The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran, by then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; nations such as Israel and the United States express concern.
• 2006
  Felipe Calderón, the President of Mexico, launches a military-led offensive to put down the drug cartel violence in the state of Michoacán. This effort is often regarded as the first event in the Mexican Drug War.
• 2007
  Insurgency in the Maghreb: Two car bombs explode in Algiers, Algeria, one near the Supreme Constitutional Court and the other near the offices of the United Nations.
• 2008
  Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
• 2012
  At least 125 people are killed and up to 200 injured in bombings in the Alawite village of Aqrab, Syria.
• 2014
  The city of Detroit, Michigan emerges from the largest municipal bankruptcy in United States history.