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- 1886
- The Coode Canal is excavated in Melbourne.
- 1956
- The St. Thomas Speedway opens near St. Thomas, Pennsylvania.
- 1959
- Sheremetyevo International Airport reopens as a civilian airport serving Moscow.
- 1992
- The U.S. Army closes Maurice Rose Airfield near Frankfurt after 40 years in operation.
- 2012
- Ilagan becomes a city in Isabela, Philippines.
- 2020
- In Jacksonville, Florida, Hemming Park is stripped of its name, that of a Confederate sympathizer.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on August 11, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on August 11 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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