Today is Saturday, August 11, the 223rd day of 2018. There are 142 days left in the year.
1780 — Barbados hurricane begins 1835 — George B Airy begins 46-year reign as England's Astronomer Royal
1877 — Asaph Hall discovers Mars's moon Deimos
1888 — California Theater closed
1914 — Jews are expelled from Mitchenick Poland
1918 — Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allieds beat Germans
1919 — Green Bay Packers football club founded
1926 — Cleve Indian Tris Speaker hits his 700th double
1929 — Babe Ruth becomes first to hit 500 homers
1945 — Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito