December 11 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for December 11
In the headlines today:

1990	Ivana Trump divorces real estate tycoon Donald Trump.
1985	The General Electric Company announces it is buying rival RCA Corporation (parent company for NBC TV) for $6.3 billion.
1951	Joe DiMaggio announces that he is retiring from baseball, after a 13-year career.
1946	The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established.
1946	John D. Rockefeller, Jr. offers the United Nations six city blocks of land in New York City for the future UN world headquarters.
1941	Just four days after Japan strikes Pearl Harbor, Germany and Italy declare war on the US; the US reciprocates.
1937	Italy withdraws from the League of Nations, at the beginning of WWII.
1936	King Edward VIII of Britain abdicates the throne to marry American Wallis Warfield Simpson.
1928	Buenos Aires lawmen prevent an assassination attempt on Herbert Hoover, the President-elect of the US.
1816	Indiana becomes the 19th state to join the US.
1792	King Louis XVI of France appears before the Convention on charges of treason.
1719	The first American sighting of the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) is recorded.