July 11

is the 192nd day (193rd in leap years) 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.
1740 - Pogrom: Jews 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 - Hamilton-Burr duel; in which Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr kills Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
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 - American Civil War: Confederate forces attempt an invasion of Washington, D.C.
1889 - Tijuana, Mexico was founded.
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 United States, becoming the only person to ever be both President and Chief Justice.
1921 - Mongolia becomes independent (from China).
1930 - Donald Bradman scored 309 runs in a day (still a Test record), on his way to his highest Test score of 334, against England.
1936 - Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
1940 - World War II: Vichy France regime formally established. Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France.
1943 - World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily - 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.
1950 - Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank.
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 worldwide, after the passing away of Sir Sultan Mahommed 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 Brazilian 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 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 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.
1982 - Italy defeats West Germany 3-1, to win the FIFA World Cup for the third time in Spain.
1983 - A Boeing 727 crashes into hilly terrain after a tail strike in Cuenca, Ecuador, claiming 119 lives.
1985 - Nolan Ryan of the Houston Astros becomes the first pitcher to reach record 4,000 career strike outs.
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 - Srebrenica Genocide: Serb army from Yugoslavia 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.
2003 - Lahore-Delhi bus service resumed after suspension of 18 months.
2004 - CIA Director George Tenet leaves his position at the CIA.
2006 - Microsoft's official support of Windows 98 and Windows Me ends.
2006 - A series of terrorist bomb blasts rock commuter trains in Mumbai (Bombay), India, killing over 200 people.
2006 - Liu Xiang sets a new world record in the 110 metres hurdles in Lausanne with a time of 12.88 s

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, 6th President of the United States (d. 1848)
1826 - Alexander Afanasyev, Russian folklorist (d. 1871)
1844 - King Peter I of Serbia (d. 1921)
1857 - Alfred Binet, French psychologist (d. 1911)
1864 - Petar Danov, Bulgarian spiritual teacher (d. 1944)
1886 - Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (d. 1939)
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, 21st 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
1945 - Patrick Joseph McGrath, Roman Catholic Bishop of San Jose, California
1949 - Liona Boyd, English-born guitarist
1950 - Bruce McGill, American actor
1954 - Butch Reed, Professional wrestler
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
1963 - Lisa Rinna, American actress
1965 - Ernesto Hoost, Dutch kickboxer
1968 - Esera Tuaolo, American football player
1968 - David Tao, Taiwanese singer-songwriter
1972 - Michael Rosenbaum, American actor
1973 - Konstantinos Kenteris, Greek athlete
1974 - Hermann Hreidarsson, Icelandic footballer
1974 - Lil' Kim, American rapper
1976 - Eduardo Nájera, Mexican-born basketball player
1981 - Andre Johnson, NFL Wide Receiver
1982 - Chris Cooley, American football player; Lil Zane, American rapper/actor
1983 - Marie 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)
1302 - 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)
1797 - Ienăchiţă Văcărescu, Wallachian writer (b. 1740)
1804 - Alexander Hamilton, American politician, deulist (b. 1755)
1806 - James Smith, American signer of the Declaration of Indpendence
1844 - Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (b. 1800)
1920 - Empress Eugénie de Montijo of France (b. 1826)
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, 102nd 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)
2006 - Barnard Hughes, American actor (b. 1915)

Holidays and observances

United Nations - World Population Day.
Flanders, region in Belgium (not a public holiday) - Flemish Day (1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs).
Ireland - National Day of Commemoration held on nearest Sunday to this date (see Irish calendar).
Mongolia - Naadam Holiday.
China - China National Maritime Day.
Feast Day of Saint Olga (first Russian Saint).
Feast Day of Saint Benedict (founder of the Benedictine Order)
United States: Free Slurpee at 7-Eleven (most locations do this - get a free 7.11oz Slurpee on 7-11).
Bonfire night in Northern Ireland, precursor to The_Twelfth.

External links

BBC: On This Day

July 10 - July 12 - June 11 - August 11 -- listing of all days

Gourt Home::Gourt :: July 11

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