July 11

July 11 is the 192nd day (193th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 173 days remaining.

Events:

1302: Guldensporenslag - the Flemish cities beat the king of France
1346: Charles IV of Luxembourg elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1533: King Henry VIII of England is excommunicated.
1740: Jews expelled from Little Russia.
1798: The United States Marine Corps is established.
1804: In a duel, Vice President Aaron Burr kills Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
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.
1895: The brothers Lumière show the 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 debutes in major league baseball.
1919: Eight hour working day and free Sunday made into law in the Netherlands.
1921: Mongolia becomes independent (from China).
1943: The Germans counter-attack on Sicily.
1944: Franklin Delano Roosevelt says he will nominate for a fourth term as president.
1955: The phrase In God We Trust is added to all US currency.
1960: Côte d'Ivoire, 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. 122 die.
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: Nigerian DC8 crashes near Djeddah, 261 deads.
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.

Births:

1274: Robert Bruce, king of Scotland (1306-1329)
1657: Frederick I, king of Prussia (1701-1713)
1754: Thomas Bowdler, medical doctor and literary censor
1767: John Quincy Adams, president of the United States (1825-1829)
1899: E. B. White, author
1920: Yul Brynner, born "Taidje Khan," actor
1934: Giorgio Armani, fashion designer
1939: Seth Gaaikema, Dutch comedian
1957: Michael Rose, musician (Black Uhuru)
1959: Suzanne Vega, singer
1960: Richie Sambora, singer/guitarist (Bon Jovi)

Deaths:

ca. 155: Pius I, bishop of Rome.
1804: Alexander Hamilton, first United States Secretary of the Treasury (duel)
1971: John W. Campbell, science fiction writer and editor
2001: Herman Brood, singer and artist (suicide)

Holidays:

Belgium: Flemish Day (1302)
Burkina Faso: Independence Day (1960)
Benin: Independence Day (1960)
Côte d'Ivoire: Independence Day (1960)
Mongolia: People's Revolution Day (1921)
Niger: Independence Day (1960)
Feast Day of St. Olga (first Russian Saint)
Feast Day of Saint Benedictus (founder of the Benedictine Order)

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