On this day: U.S. painter Jackson Pollock, leader of the abstract expressionist movement, was killed in a car accident in 1956

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 11: 1919 – Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie died at 83. 1952 – King Hussein of Jordan took the throne after his father, King Talal, was declared unfit to rule because of…

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