August 11

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	3114 BC	The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Mayans, begins.	Beef Terminal	15 Days and Counting	Humidex
2	1929	Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.	C Clamp	Bats	Meander + Return
3	1942	Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a frequency hopping, spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.	Refused	Liberation Frequency	The Shape of Punk to Come
4	1965	Race riots (the Watts riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.	Doves	Lost in Watts	Catch the Sun
5	1984	"We begin bombing in five minutes" - United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.	The Smiths	That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore	Meat is Murder
6	1999	The Salt Lake City Tornado tears through the downtown district of the city, killing one.	The Pine	Loner	Lead Blocks for Feet
7	2003	A heat wave in Paris results in temperatures rising to 112 °F (44 °C), leaving about 144 people dead.	MIrah	Heat Gets Hotter	Storageland

(Historical facts about August 11 are from Wikipedia.)