Today in History - History - December 11th

1620Myles Standish and a group of 18 settlers are attacked by 30 Native Americans, which became known as the "First Encounter"

1961Elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 20 wks

1928Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on Pres-elect Herbert Hoover

1936Edward VIII announces in a radio broadcast that he is abdicating the British throne to marry Wallis Simpson

1901Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian electrical inventor, sends the first transatlantic radio signal

2003Joe Sakic scores his 500th career goal at Vancouver

198372nd Australian Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (61 64 64)

1959Emilio G. Segrè publishes his discovery of the antiproton, a sub-atomic antiparticle for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959

1951Joe DiMaggio announces his baseball retirement

1994Kelly Robbins & Tammie Green wins LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches

1863Annie Jump Cannon, Dover Delware, US stellar spectroscopist (Harvard-classification)

1475Pope Leo X, [Giovanni de' Medici], Florence, Italy (1513-21), (d. 1521)

1843Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (TB, cholera, Nobel 1905)

1725George Mason, Fairfax County Virginia, American statesman (Bill of Rights)

1918Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Kislovodsk, Russia, writer (Cancer Ward, Nobel 1970), (d. 2008)

1890Carlos Gardel, Buenos Aires, Argentine singer and the most prominent figure in the history of tango (d. 1935)

2008Bettie Page, American Playboy pin-up model, dies at 85

2012Ravi Shankar, Indian musician, dies at 92