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July 11 is the 192nd day (193rd in Leap Year s) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar , with 173 days remaining.
Events
- 1302 - Battle Of The Golden Spurs (''Guldensporenslag'' in Dutch ) - a coalition around the Flemish cities defeats the king of France 's huge knightly army.
- 1346 - Charles IV of Luxembourg elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire .
- 1405 - Chinese fleet commander Zheng He set sail to explore the world for the first time.
- 1576 - Martin Frobisher sights Greenland .
- 1616 - Samuel De Champlain returns to Quebec .
- 1735 - Mathematical calculations suggest it was on this day that Pluto moved from the ninth to the eighth most distant planet from the Sun for the last time before 1979 .
- s are expelled from Little Russia .
- 1750 - Halifax, Nova Scotia almost completely destroyed by fire.
- 1776 - Captain James Cook begins third voyage.
- 1789 - Jacques Necker dismissed as Finance Minister for France sparking the storming of the Bastille .
- 1796 - The U.S. takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty .
- 1798 - The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War .
- 1804 - Vice President Of The United States Aaron Burr kills Secretary Of The Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
- 1811 - Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoir about Molecular Content Of Gases .
- 1848 - The Waterloo railway station in London opens.
- 1859 - '' A Tale Of Two Cities '' by Charles Dickens is published.
- 1864 - Confederate forces attempt an invasion of Washington, D.C.
- 1893 - The first cultured Pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto .
- 1895 - The brothers Lumière show Film for scientists.
- 1897 - Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to try to reach the North Pole by Balloon . He later crashes and dies.
- 1914 - Babe Ruth debuts in Major League Baseball .
- 1919 - Eight-hour working day and free Sunday made into law in the Netherlands .
- 1921 - Truce called in the Irish War Of Independence ; see Irish Calendar .
- 1921 - Former US President William Howard Taft sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court , becoming the only person to ever be both President and Chief Justice.
- 1921 - Mongolia becomes independent (from China ).
- 1936 - Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
- regime formally established. Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister Of France .
- - German troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily .
- 1944 - Franklin D. Roosevelt says he will run for a fourth term as President Of The United States .
- 1955 - The phrase '' In God We Trust '' is added to all US Currency .
- 1957 - Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherites the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismaili worlwide, after the passing away of Sir Sultam Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III
- 1960 - '' To Kill A Mockingbird '' by Harper Lee is first published.
- 1962 - First transatlantic Satellite Television transmission.
- 1971 - Copper mines in Chile nationalised.
- 1973 - A Brazil ian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport , killing 123 people of the 134 on-board.
- 1975 - Chinese Archeologists discover a large burial site with 6,000 clay statutes of warriors from 221 BC .
- 1977 - Martin Luther King is posthumously awarded the Medal Of Freedom .
- 1978 - A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona , Spain killing 216 tourists.
- 1979 - The space station '' Skylab '' returns to Earth .
- 1983 - A Boeing 727 crashes into hilly terrain after a tail strike in Cuenca , Ecuador , claiming 119 lives.
- 1987 - According to the United Nations , the world population crosses the 5,000,000,000 mark.
- 1991 - A Nationair DC-8 crashed during an emergency landing at Jeddah , Saudi Arabia , killing 261. The Canadian charter was ferrying Hajj pilgrims on behalf of Nigeria Airways .
- 1991 - Total Solar Eclipse in Hawaii .
- 1995 - Full diplomatic relations are established between the United States and Vietnam .
- 1995 - and Bosnia , capture the Bosniak town of Srebrenica . More than eight thousands inhabitants are murdered. It is generally regarded to be the most horrific event in recent European history.
- 1995 - A Cubana De Aviacion Antonov An-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44 people.
- 2004 - CIA Director George Tenet leaves his position at the CIA.
Births
- 1274 - Robert The Bruce , King Of Scotland (d. 1329 )
- 1366 - Anne Of Bohemia , queen of Richard II Of England (d. 1394 )
- 1561 - Luis De Góngora , Spanish poet (d. 1627 )
- 1603 - Kenelm Digby , English privateer (d. 1665 )
- 1628 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni , Japanese warlord (d. 1701 )
- 1657 - King Frederick I Of Prussia (d. 1713 )
- 1662 - Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector Of Bavaria (d. 1726 )
- 1723 - Jean-François Marmontel , French historian and writer (d. 1799 )
- 1754 - Thomas Bowdler , English physican and censor (d. 1825 )
- 1767 - John Quincy Adams , President Of The United States (d. 1848 )
- 1826 - Alexander Afanasyev , Russian folklorist (d. 1871)
- 1857 - Alfred Binet , French psychologist (d. 1911 )
- 1864 - Peter Deunov , Bulgarian spiritual teacher (d. 1944 )
- 1897 - Eugene "Bull" Connor , sheriff of Birmingham, Alabama (d. 1973 )
- 1899 - E. B. White , American writer (d. 1985 )
- 1906 - Herbert Wehner , German politician (d. 1990 )
- 1910 - Irene Hervey , American actress (d. 1998 )
- 1913 - Cordwainer Smith , American writer (d. 1966 )
- 1916 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov , Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002 )
- 1916 - Gough Whitlam , twenty-first Prime Minister Of Australia
- 1921 - Ilse Werner , Dutch-born actress
- 1924 - Brett Somers , Canadian actress
- 1924 - César Lattes , Brazilian physicist (d. 2005 )
- 1924 - Charlie Tully , Northern Irish footballer (d. 1971 )
- 1925 - Nicolai Gedda , Swedish tenor
- 1926 - Frederick Buechner , American author
- 1929 - Hermann Prey , German baritone (d. 1998 )
- 1930 - Harold Bloom , American literary critic
- 1931 - Tab Hunter , American actor
- 1931 - Tullio Regge , Italian physicist
- 1934 - Giorgio Armani , Italian fashion designer
- 1935 - Oliver Napier , Northern Irish politician
- 1949 - Liona Boyd , English-born guitarist
- 1950 - Bruce McGill , American actor
- 1956 - Sela Ward , American actress
- 1957 - Peter Murphy , British musician ( Bauhaus )
- 1957 - Michael Rose , Jamaican musician ( Black Uhuru )
- 1958 - Hugo Sánchez , Mexican footballer
- 1959 - Richie Sambora , American guitarist ( Bon Jovi )
- 1959 - Suzanne Vega , American singer
- 1963 - Al MacInnis , Canadian Ice Hockey player
- 1965 - Ernesto Hoost , Dutch kickboxer
- 1968 - Esera Tuaolo , American football player
- 1972 - Michael Rosenbaum , American actor
- 1973 - Konstantinos Kenteris , Greek athlete
- 1974 - Hermann Hreidarsson , Icelandic footballer
- 1975 - Lil' Kim , American rapper
- 1976 - Eduardo Nájera , Mexican-born basketball player
- 1981 - Andre Johnson , NFL Wide Receiver
- 1982 - Chris Cooley , American football player
- 1983 - Marie Eleonor Serneholt , Swedish musician ( A-Teens )
- 1983 - Kelly Poon , Singapore singer
- 1984 - Tanith Belbin , Canadian ice dancer
Deaths
- 472 - Anthemius , Emperor of the Western Roman Empire
- 937 - King Rudolph II Of Burgundy
- 969 - Olga Of Kiev
- 1174 - King Amalric I Of Jerusalem (b. 1136 )
- 1320 - Robert II Of Artois , French soldier (b. 1250 )
- 1535 - Elector Joachim I Of Brandenburg (b. 1484 )
- 1581 - Peder Skram , Danish senator and naval hero
- 1665 - Kenelm Digby , English privateer (b. 1603 )
- 1679 - William Chamberlayne , English poet (b. 1619 )
- 1688 - Narai , King of Siam
- 1766 - Elizabeth Farnese , wife of Philip V Of Spain (b. 1692 )
- 1774 - Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet , Irish-born New York pioneer
- 1775 - Simon Boerum , American Continental Congressman (b. 1724 )
- 1804 - Alexander Hamilton , United States Secretary Of The Treasury (duel) (b. 1757 )
- 1806 - James Smith , American signer of the Declaration of Indpendence
- 1844 - Evgeny Baratynsky , Russian poet (b. 1800 )
- 1937 - George Gershwin , American composer (b. 1898 )
- 1959 - Charlie Parker , English cricketer (b. 1882 )
- 1966 - Delmore Schwartz , American Poet (b. 1913 )
- 1971 - John W. Campbell , American writer and editor (b. 1910 )
- 1974 - Pär Lagerkvist , Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891 )
- 1987 - Avi Ran , Israeli footballer (b. 1963 )
- 1989 - Sir Laurence Olivier , English actor (b. 1907 )
- 1994 - Gary Kildall , American computer programmer (b. 1942 )
- 1994 - Savannah American actress (b. 1970
- 1999 - Helen Forrest , American singer (b. 1917 )
- 2000 - Pedro Mir , Dominican poet (b. 1913 )
- 2000 - Robert Runcie , Archbishop Of Canterbury (b. 1921 )
- 2001 - Herman Brood , Dutch singer and artist (suicide) (b. 1946 )
- 2004 - Laurance Rockefeller , American conservationist and philanthropist (b. 1910 )
- 2005 - Gretchen Franklin , English actress (b. 1911 )
- 2005 - Frances Langford , American actress and singer (b. 1914 )
Holidays and observances
External links
July 10 - July 12 - June 11 - August 11 -- Listing Of All Days
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