Template:On this day/August 11
- 1817 – Melanchton Brooks Woolsey was born.
- 1882 – A yellow fever quarantine was ordered at Pensacola.
- 1911 – A hurricane moved ashore in western Escambia County.
- 1984 – The Poarch Band of Creek Indians was recognized as an Indian Tribe by the U.S. Department of Interior and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.