August 11 is the 223rd day of the year (224th in leap years); 142 days remain until the end of the year.
"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so."
Born today
Robert Green Ingersoll, 1833, American lawyer, orator, and advocate of secularism
Observances
Flag Day (Pakistan)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Chad from France in 1960.
Mountain Day (Japan)
Mountain Day (US)
Play In The Sand Day (US)
