July 11 is the 192nd day (193th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 173 days remaining.
Events 1302 - Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch) - the Flemish cities beat the king of France. 1346 - Charles IV of Luxembourg elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. 1576 - Martin Frobisher sights Greenland. 1616 - Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec. 1533 - King Henry VIII of England is excommunicated. 1740 - Jews expelled from Little Russia. 1750 - Halifax,_Nova Scotia almost completely destroyed by fire. 1776 - Captain James Cook begins third voyage. 1798 - The United States Marine Corps is established. 1804 - In a duel, Vice President Aaron Burr kills Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton. 1811 - Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoire 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 DC. 1893 - The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto. 1895 - The brothers Lumičre show film for scientists. 1897 - Solomon Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to try to reach the North pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies, probably of carbon monoxide poisoning. 1914 - Babe Ruth debuts in major league baseball. 1919 - Eight-hour working day and free Sunday made into law in the Netherlands. 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. 1940 - Vichy Regime formally established in France. (and Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France). 1943 - The Germans counter-attack on Sicily. 1944 - Franklin Delano 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. 1960 - Dahomey (now Benin), Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), and Niger all gain independence. 1962 - First transatlantic satellite television transmission. 1962 - Soviet cosmonaut Micolaev is four days in space, a record. 1971 - Copper mines in Chile nationalised. 1973 - A Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport, resulting in the death of 122 people. 1975 - Chinese archeologists discover a large burial site with 6,000 clay statutes of warriors from 221 BC. 1977 - Martin Luther King is posthumously rewarded the Medal of Freedom. 1979 - The space station Skylab returns to Earth. 1987 - According to the United Nations, on this day the world population crosses the 5,000,000,000 mark. 1991 - A Nigerian DC-8 crashes while landing at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia killing 261 1991 - Total solar eclipse in Hawaii. 1995 - Full diplomatic relations are established between the United States and Vietnam. 1995 - Bosnian Serbs capture the Muslim city of Srebrenica. Many inhabitants are murdered. 1995 - A Cubana de Aviacion Antonov AN-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44 Births 1274 - Robert the Bruce, king of Scotland (1306-1329) 1657 - King Frederick I of Prussia (1701-1713) 1754 - Thomas Bowdler, medical doctor and literary censor 1767 - John Quincy Adams, president of the United States (1825-1829) 1844 - King Peter of Serbia (+ 1921) 1857 - Alfred Binet, phsychologist (+ 1911) 1897 - Eugene Bull Connor), sheriff of Birmingham, Alabama, resisted civil rights (+ 1973) 1899 - E. B. White, writer (+ 1985) 1903 - O. E. Hasse, actor (+ 1978) 1906 - Herbert Wehner, politician (+ 1990) 1913 - Cordwainer Smith, writer 1921 - Ilse Werner, actress 1926 - Frederick Buechner, author 1927 - Brett Somers, actor 1929 - Hermann Prey, bariton (+ 1998) 1930 - Harold Bloom, literary critic 1931 - Tab Hunter, actor 1934 - Giorgio Armani, fashion designer 1939 - Seth Gaaikema, Dutch comedian 1949 - Liona Boyd, classical guitarist 1957 - Michael Rose, musician (Black Uhuru) 1959 - Suzanne Vega, singer 1959 - Richie Sambora, singer/guitarist (Bon Jovi) 1976 - Lil' Kim, rap singer Deaths ca. 155 - Pope Pius I 472 - Anthemius, Emperor of the Western Empire (legal murder) 1577 - king John III of Portugal 1804 - Alexander Hamilton, United States Secretary of the Treasury (duel) 1937 - George Gershwin, composer 1971 - John W. Campbell, science fiction writer and editor 1974 - Pär Lagerkvist, author, 1951 winner of the Nobel Prize for literature 1989 - Sir Laurence Olivier, actor 2001 - Herman Brood, singer and artist (suicide) Holidays and observances Belgium (partially) - Flemish Day (1302) Burkina Faso - Independence Day (1960) Benin - Independence Day (1960) Niger - Independence Day (1960) Mongolia - Naadam Holiday Feast Day of Saint Olga (first Russian Saint) Feast Day of Saint Benedictus (founder of the Benedictine Order) See Also: July 10 - July 12 - June 11 - August 11 -- listing of all days January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
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