AUGUST 11, 2026

Here’s what happened on this day in history — the stories that shaped the world.

■  TODAY’S LEAD STORYA California Highway Patrol officer pulled over a twenty-one-year-old in Watts on August 11, 1965 — and six days later, 34 people were dead and a city was reckoning with everything it had refused to see.READ FULL STORY → 

■  ALSO ON THIS DAYThe first 137 federal prisoners arrived at Alcatraz Island on August 11, 1934, to find a facility designed to make escape unthinkable — surrounded by cold water, half a world away from everything.READ MORE → 

■  MORE FROM HISTORYRobin Williams gave more joy to more people than almost anyone of his era — and died on August 11, 2014, from a suffering that none of that joy could reach.READ MORE → 

■  DID YOU KNOW?

The dot over a lowercase “i” has an official name: it is called a tittle. The word comes from the Latin “titulus,” meaning inscription or heading, and appears in the phrase “jot or tittle” — meaning the smallest possible detail — which appears in the King James Bible. The tittle also appears over the lowercase “j,” though almost no one knows it has a name there either.

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