TV show host Joe Rogan

Events in 1967 and 11-8

Events in US in the birth year of Joe Rogan

• Racial violence in Detroit; 7,000 National Guardsmen aid police after night of rioting. Similar outbreaks in New York City's Spanish Harlem, Rochester, N.Y., Birmingham, Ala., and New Britain, Conn. (July 23).
• Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first black US Supreme Court justice (Oct. 2).
• Astronauts Col. Virgil I. Grissom, Col. Edward White II, and Lt. Cmdr. Roger B. Chaffee killed in fire during test launch (Jan. 27).

Birthday Joe Rogan (11-8) in history

• Day 11-8 year 1909: Arapahoe became the first American ship to use the S.O.S. distress signal.
• Day 11-8 year 1934: The first inmates arrived at the federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay.
• Day 11-8 year 1952: King Hussein of Jordan ascended the throne after his father had been declared mentally unfit.
• Day 11-8 year 1954: More than seven years of fighting in Indochina formerly ended with the cessation of French control.
• Day 11-8 year 1956: Abstract artist Jackson Pollock died in an automobile accident.
• Day 11-8 year 1960: Chad gained its independence from France.
• Day 11-8 year 1965: Following the arrest of a young black motorist, the predominately black neighborhood of Watts in Los Angeles erupted in riots that lasted six days and left 34 dead.
• Day 11-8 year 2003: Charles Taylor, president of Liberia, formally relinquished his office to Moses Blah and left for Nigeria.