July 11
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July 11 is the 192nd day of the year (193rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 173 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1274 – Robert I of Scotland (d. 1329)
- 1366 – Anne of Bohemia, Queen Consort of England (d. 1394)
- 1657 – King Frederick I of Prussia (d. 1713)
- 1709 – Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, Swedish chemist (d. 1785)
- 1767 – John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States (d. 1848)
- 1846 – Leon Bloy, French writer (d. 1917)
- 1882 – James Larkin White, American, discovered the Carlsbad Caverns (d. 1946)
- 1892 – Thomas Mitchell, American actor (d. 1962)
- 1899 – E. B. White, American writer (d. 1985)
- 1906 – Herbert Wehner, German politician (d. 1990)
- 1916 – Gough Whitlam, former Prime Minister of Australia
- 1916 – Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov, Russian physicist (d. 2002)
- 1916 – Reg Varney, English actor (d. 2008)
- 1920 – Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (d. 1985)
- 1921 – Ilse Werner, Dutch-born actress (d. 2005)
- 1922 – Gene Evans, American actor (d. 1998)
- 1923 – Olavo Rodrigues Barbosa, Brazilian footballer (d. 2010)
- 1934 – Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer
- 1943 – Rolf Stommelen, German racing driver (d. 1983)
- 1953 – Leon Spinks, American boxer
- 1959 – Richie Sambora, American singer
- 1959 – Suzanne Vega, American singer
- 1972 – Jussi 69, Finnish musician
- 1974 – Hermann Hreidarsson, Icelandic footballer
- 1974 – Andre Ooijer, Dutch footballer
- 1975 – Samer el Nahal, Finnish musician (Lordi)
- 1975 – Lil' Kim, American rapper, singer and actress
- 1976 – Nadya Suleman, American, famous mother of octuplets
- 1979 – Eric Abidal, French footballer
- 1986 – Yoann Gourcuff, French footballer
- 1990 – Caroline Wozniacki, Danish tennis player
Deaths [change]
- ca. 155 – Pope Pius I
- 472 – Anthemius, Emperor of the Western Empire (legal murder)
- 937 – Rudolph II of Burgundy
- 969 – Olga of Kiev
- 1688 – King Narai of Siam (b. 1629)
- 1804 – Alexander Hamilton, United States Secretary of the Treasury (duel) (b. 1757)
- 1916 – Jon Olafsson, Icelandic editor, journalist and poet (b. 1850)
- 1937 – George Gershwin, American composer (b. 1898)
- 1959 – Charlie Parker, cricketer (b. 1882)
- 1971 – John W. Campbell, science fiction writer and editor (b. 1910)
- 1974 – Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
- 1989 – Sir Laurence Olivier, English actor (b. 1907)
- 1991 – Hitoshi Igarashi, English-Japanese translator, of The Satanic Verses (b. 1947)
- 1994 – Gary Kildall, computer programmer (b. 1942)
- 1999 – Helen Forrest, American jazz singer (b. 1917)
- 2000 – Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1921)
- 2001 – Herman Brood, singer and artist (suicide) (b. 1946)
- 2003 – Zahra Kazemi, Iranian-Canadian freelance photographer (b. 1949)
- 2004 – Laurence Rockefeller, American conservationist and philanthropist (b. 1910)
- 2005 – Gretchen Franklin, English actress (b. 1911)
- 2007 – Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
- 2007 – Alfonso Lopez Michelsen, 32nd President of Colombia (b. 1913)
- 2008 – Michael DeBakey, American surgeon and inventor (b. 1908)
- 2009 – Arturo Gatti, Canadian boxer (b. 1972)
- 2010 – Bob Sheppard, American announcer (b. 1910)
Events [change]
- 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.
- 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 – 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.
- 1889 – Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.
- 1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
- 1895 – The brothers Lumière show movie for scientists.
- 1897 – Salomon August Andre 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.
- 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 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.
- 1960 – The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is published for the first time.
- 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.
- 1982 – Defeating West Germany 3–1 at Santiago Bernabéu stadium, Italy wins the 1982 edition of the Football World Cup.
- 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 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, beginning the Srebrenica Massacre, the biggest massacre since the World War II.
- 1995 – A Cubana de Aviacion Antonov AN-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44.
- 2006 – A series of bomb attacks devastates Mumbai, India.
- 2010 – The Spain national football team wins the FIFA World Cup for the first time, after a 1-0 extra time win over the Netherlands national football team, who had also never won the World Cup before.
Observances [change]
- Day of the Flemish Community in Belgium
- First Day of Naadam (Mongolia)
- National Day of Commemoration (Republic of Ireland)
- World Population Day
