11th December anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1908
  • "Birth of Elliott Carter, American composer ."
• event
  • 1929
  • Architects unveiled the design for the Empire State Building
  • 1936
  • King Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry Wallis Simpson
  • 1958
  • Upper Volta declared its independence from France and became an autonomous republic within the French Community.
  • 1975
  • End of the IRA Balcombe Street siege
  • 1979
  • The Zimbabwe-Rhodesian Parliament dismissed itself and handed power back to Britain until democratic elections could be held. (The country became fully independent as Zimbabwe in April 1980)
  • 1994
  • Russian troops invaded Chechnya
• Death