December 11 Holidays

✡️ Religious Observances

• Jewish: Chanukah: 8 Candles חנוכה: ח׳ נרות holiday
• Jewish: Rosh Chodesh Tevet ראש חודש טבת roshchodesh
• Islamic: Lailat-ul-Ragha'ib major

🕰️ On This Day in History

• 2012 — At least 125 people are killed and up to 200 injured in bombings in the Alawite village of Aqrab, Syria. ↗
• 2008 — Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme. ↗
• 2007 — Insurgency in the Maghreb: Two car bombs explode in Algiers, Algeria, one near the Supreme Constitutional Court and the other near the... ↗
• 2006 — The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran, by then-president Mahmoud... ↗
• 2006 — Felipe Calderón, the President of Mexico, launches a military-led offensive to put down the drug cartel violence in the state of... ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 1996 — Hailee Steinfeld, American actress
• 1992 — Tiffany Alvord, American singer-songwriter
• 1992 — Dalton Pompey, Canadian baseball player
• 1990 — Derrick Nix, American basketball player
• 1988 — Tim Southee, New Zealand cricketer