What day of the week was August 11, 1942?

The day of the week August 11th, 1942 fell on was a Tuesday.

Mike Hugg the English drummer and keyboard player (Manfred Mann and The Manfreds) was born on 11 August in 1942.

Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.