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On This Day, August 11
- 2023: Luna 25 launches from the Vostochny Cosmodrome.
- 2017: At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger trains collide in Alexandria, Egypt.
- 2012: At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.
- 2006: The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill.
- 2003: NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.