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What happened in history on this day: July 11?
On July 11 in ...
- 1274 - Birth of Robert the Bruce Scotland, King (1328-1329).
- 1533 - Pope Clement VII excommunicates England's King Henry VIII.
- 1553 - Princess Mary of England announces he bid for the throne, gathering an army in East Anglia.
- 1558 - Birth of Robert Greene Elizabethan dramatist (Friar Bacon).
- 1593 - Giuseppe Arcimboldo first surrealist painter, dies (birth date unkn).
- 1642 - English Parliament accuses the King of having begun war on Parliament.
- 1657 - Birth of Friederich I in Königsberg; first king of Prussia and the Elector of Brandenburg.
- 1662 - Birth of Maximilian II Emanuel in Munich; Elector of Bavaria (1679-1726), governor of the Spanish Netherlands.
- 1700 - The German Academy of Sciences is founded in Berlin. The first president is Gottfied Wilhelm Leibnitz. The original name was the Electoral Prince of Brandenburg Society.
- 1740 - Jews are expelled from Little Russia by order of Czarina Anne.
- 1754 - Birth of Thomas Bowdler famous prude, bowdlerized Shakespeare.
- 1767 - Birth of John Quincy Adams in Braintree, Massachusetts, USA; US Senator (1803-1808), Secretary of State (1817-1825), 6th US President (1825-1829) (died 1848).
- 1789 - Marquis de Lafayette introduces Declaration of Rights of Man in France.
- 1792 - Prussia army moves into French territory.
- 1798 - US President John Adams signs a bill into law creating the U.S. Marines.
- 1804 - US Vice President Aaron Burr kills Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel near Weehawken.
- 1811 - Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoir about molecular content of gases.
- 1812 - US invades Canada (Detroit frontier).
- 1838 - Birth of John Wanamaker; merchant (Wanamakers Department Store).
- 1859 - Armistice agreed to at Villafranca, south of Verona, ending Second War of Independence.
- 1861 - Birth of George William Norris; American politician (Republican-Nebraska).
- 1862 - US Congress authorizes another US$150 million in United States Notes.
- 1864 - Price in gold of dollar bills drops to 39 cents, lowest point during the war.
- 1868 - J C Watson discovers asteroid #100 Hekate.
- 1888 - 118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Bennett, Colorado (state record).
- 1888 - Birth of Lyman Bryson in Valentine, Nebraska, USA; educator (UN Casebook).
- 1888 - Pennsylvania's Monongehela River rises 32 feet after 24-hour rainfall.
- 1892 - Birth of Thomas Mitchell in New Jersey, USA; academy award winning actor (Outlaw, Adventures).
- 1893 - The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
- 1895 - The brothers Lumière show a film for scientists.
- 1899 - Birth of E.B. White; writer (Charlotte's Web, Elements of Style).
- 1901 - L Carnera discovers asteroid #472 Roma.
- 1906 - Birth of Harry Von Zell in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; TV announcer (Burns and Allen).
- 1909 - Simon Newcomb, celestial mechanics authority, dies.
- 1910 - Birth of Irene Hervey in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Aunt Meg - Honey West).
- 1915 - Birth of Yul Brynner on Sakhalin Island, Japan; actor (The King and I).
- 1916 - First US federal grant-in-aid for state roads enacted.
- 1916 - Birth of Edward Gough Whitlam AKA Gough Whitlam in Kew, Melbourne, Australia; Australian Prime Minister (1972-75).
- 1918 - M Wolf discovers asteroid #895 Helio.
- 1920 - Birth of Yul Brynner; actor (The King and I, The Ten Commandments) (dies 1985).
- 1921 - Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day).
- 1921 - In Germany, Adolf Hitler briefly resigns from the National Socialist German Worker's Party.
- 1922 - Birth of Gene Evans in Hollbrook, Arizona, USA; actor (My Friend Flicka, Matt Helm, Alamo).
- 1927 - Birth of Herbert Blomstedt in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA; conductor (Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra 1954-61).
- 1929 - Birth of Hermann Prey in Berlin, Germany; baritone (Wolfram-Tannhaüser).
- 1931 - Birth of Tab Hunter; actor (Damn Yankees, Lust in the Dust, Battle Cry).
- 1931 - Birth of Thurston Harris in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; vocalist ("Little Bitty Pretty One").
- 1931 - New York Giants beat Philadelphia Phillies 23-8.
- 1934 - Franklin Roosevelt becomes first US president to travel through Panama Canal.
- 1936 - Triborough Bridge linking Manhattan, Bronx and Queens opens.
- 1937 - George Gershwin, composer (American in Paris), dies at age 38.
- 1939 - New York Yankees host 7th All Star Game, McCarthy starts 6 New York Yankees, American League wins 3-1.
- 1943 - Birth of Susan Seaforth Hayes in San Francisco, California, USA; actress (Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless).
- 1944 - Birth of Bill Boggs in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; TV host/producer (Midday, Morton Downey Junior Show).
- 1944 - National League beats American League 7-1 in 12th All Star Game (Pittsburgh' Forbes Field).
- 1946 - Birth of Beverly Todd in Ohio, USA; actress (Roots, Having Babies, Redd Foxx Show).
- 1946 - A war crimes trial convicts Joachim Peiper, Sepp Dietrich, and 71 other former German SS officers and soldiers. Peiper and 42 others are sentenced to death.
- 1947 - Birth of Jeff Hanna; rock vocalist (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - "Mr Bojangles").
- 1950 - Birth of Bonnie Pointer; singer (Pointer Sisters).
- 1950 - National League beats American League 4-3 (14 innings) in 17th All Star Game (Comiskey Park, Chicago, Illinois).
- 1953 - Birth of Leon Spinks; American heavyweight boxing champion (1978, Olympic-gold-1976).
- 1954 - First White Citizens Council organizes in Indianola, Mississippi.
- 1955 - Birth of Sergey Babinov in the USSR; ice hockey star (Olympic-gold-1972).
- 1955 - New US Air Force Academy dedicated at Lowry Air Force Base in Colorado with 300 cadets.
- 1956 - Birth of Sela Ward; actor (Hilary - Emerald Point NAS).
- 1957 - Birth of Michael Rose; rocker (Black Uhuru - "Brutal", "Positive").
- 1957 - Birth of Pete Murphy; rocker (Love Hysteria).
- 1958 - Birth of Mark Lester in Oxford, England; actor (Oliver, Prince and Pauper).
- 1958 - Birth of Ray Dodds; rocker (Fairground Attraction - "You Send Me").
- 1959 - Birth of Richie Sambora; guitarist (Bon Jovi - "You Give Love a Bad Name").
- 1959 - Birth of Suzanne Vega; rocker ("My Name is Luka").
- 1960 - Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta, and Niger declare independence.
- 1960 - National League beats American League 5-3 in 28th All Star Game (Municipal Stadium, Kansas City).
- 1962 - First transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I).
- 1962 - Cosmonaut Micolaev sets record longest space flight - four days.
- 1962 - Fred Baldasare is first to swim English Channel underwater (scuba).
- 1965 - Ray Collins, actor (Halls of Ivy, Perry Mason), dies at age 75.
- 1966 - Birth of Mel Appleby; rocker (Mel and Kim - "Coming to America").
- 1967 - In Denver, Colorado, USA a building is struck by a falling meteorite.
- 1967 - Revolution on Anguilla.
- 1967 - Longest All Star Game, National League beats American League 2-1 (15 innings) (Anaheim Stadium, California).
- 1969 - David Bowie's single, "Space Oddity" is released to coincide with the first lunar landing.
- 1971 - Carleton Young, actor (Court of Last Resorts), dies at age 64.
- 1971 - Philadelphia Phillies' Deron Johnson's three home runs caps his four in a row.
- 1973 - Isabel Randolph, actress (Mrs Nester - Our Miss Brooks), dies at age 83.
- 1973 - Brazilian Varig Boeing 707 burns in a field near Paris, France, killing 122 of 134, fire started in washroom.
- 1974 - US House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry.
- 1974 - World Football League plays first games.
- 1974 - CBS premieres the Mac Davis Show TV series.
- 1975 - L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2489 Suvorov.
- 1976 - In the Panama-Colombia border region, magnitude 6.7 and 7.0 earthquakes occur, four hours apart.
- 1977 - Birth of Brandy Gold in Northridge, California; actress (Annie - Baby Makes Five).
- 1977 - US Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Reverend Martin Luther King Junior.
- 1978 - More than 200 tourists die in an explosion of a tanker-truck at a campsite in Costa Daurada, Spain.
- 1978 - National League beats American League 7-3 in 49th All Star Game (San Diego Stadium).
- 1979 - American Skylab space station enters the atmosphere over Australia and disintegrates, after being in orbit for 6 years and 2 months.
- 1980 - Peggy Knudson, actress (April - So This is Hollywood), dies at age 57.
- 1981 - Sebastian Coe of United Kingdom sets record for 1000 metre, 2:12.18.
- 1982 - Italy beats Federal Republic of Germany 3-1 for soccer's 12th World Cup in Madrid, Spain.
- 1983 - Birth of Marie Eleonor Serneholt; Swedish singer (A*Teens).
- 1983 - E Bowell discovers asteroid #3485 Barucci.
- 1984 - England's MusicBox begins satellite transmission to Europe.
- 1984 - National League beats American League 3-1 in 55th All Star Game (Candlestick Park San Francisco, California).
- 1985 - Houston Astros' Nolan Ryan is first to strike out 4000 (New York Mets' Danny Heep).
- 1986 - Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway runs 10,000 m in world record 30:13.74.
- 1986 - Maricica Puica of Romania runs 2,000 m in 5:28.69 (record for women).
- 1986 - Death of Frances Griffiths, Cotingley Fairies girl (born 1907).
- 1987 - Thomas F Waddell, founder of Gay Olympics, dies of AIDS at age 50.
- 1987 - Australian Prime Minister Robert Hawke's Labour Party government is re-elected for a third term.
- 1987 - World population reaches 5 billion people, according to the United Nations.
- 1989 - US President Ronald Reagan sportscasts the All Star Game.
- 1989 - American League beats National League 5-3, (third of last four All Star Games) in California.
- 1990 - New York City police arrest "Dartman" (stabbed over 50 women with darts).
- 1991 - A total solar eclipse is seen in Hawaii and Mexico.
- 1994 - Gary Kildall dies in a bar brawl, at age 52. He was an American microcomputer industry visionary and pioneer, most well-known for creating the CP/M operating system.
- 1995 - Bosnian Serbs march into Srebrenica, taking the United Nations Dutch peacekeeping force hostage to prevent UN airstrikes.
- 1995 - In the Myanmar-China border region, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurs. Six people killed, 99 injured, more than 100,000 houses destroyed and 42,000 damaged.
- 1995 - Ore carrier Iron Baron runs aground on a reef off southern Australia, spilling over 582,000 litres of fuel oil.
- 1995 - The NBC TV network airs the last episode of the Disney series Pride & Joy.
- 1997 - 90 die in Thailand's worst hotel fire at Pattaya.
- 1999 - India recaptures Kargil, forcing the Pakistan Army to retreat. India announces victory ending the two-month conflict.
- 1999 - In Honduras, a magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurs. Few injuries, damage to houses, bridges, and highways. Felt throughout most of Honduras and in eastern Guatemala. Felt in Belize, El Salvador and at Villahermosa, Mexico.
- 2000 - Death of Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1921).
- 2000 - (to July 25) Israel's prime minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Liberation Organization head Yasser Arafat meet at Camp David, but fail to reach a peace agreement.
- 2001 - Columbia Pictures releases the animated feature film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within to theaters in the USA. This is the first feature film to star photorealistic computer-generated human beings.
- 2006 - Death of Barnard Hughes at age 90; actor (Guiding Light, As the World Turns, The Cavanaughs, Mr. Merlin, Doc, Grandpa Buzz - Blossom).
- 2006 - A series of coordinated bomb attacks strikes several commuter trains in Mumbai, India during the evening rush hour.
- 2007 - The ninth All Africa Games kick off in Algiers, Algeria.
- 2007 - Death of Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Johnson, former First Lady of the United States, environmentalist, at age 94 (born 1912).
- 2007 - Warner Bros. releases the film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix to theaters.
- 2007 - Death of Alfonso López Michelsen, 32nd Colombian President (born 1913).
- 2007 - Death of Ed Mirvish, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (born 1914).
- 2007 - Death of Shag Crawford, American umpire in Major League Baseball (born 1916).
- 2007 - Death of Jimmy Skinner, Detroit Red Wings head coach (born 1917).
- 2008 - Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva breaks her own world record in the women's pole vault at Rome's Golden Gala meet, jumping 5.03 metres.
- 2008 - Crude oil on the New York Mercantile Exchange hits a record high of US$147.27 per barrel.
- 2008 - At Bonhams' Goodwood Sale, a 1934 ERA RIA race car sells for US$720,237. A 1955 Jaguar D-Type XKD 509, first customer car, sells for US$4,416,676.
- 2008 - In California, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp takes over mortgage lender IndyMac Bancorp, second largest banking failure (US$32 billion in assets) in U.S. history, and the fifth U.S. bank to fail this year. The insurance firm estimates the cost of the failure at between $4 billion and $8 billion.
- 2008 - Death of Michael E. DeBakey, American surgeon and inventor (born 1908).
- 2009 - (to July 19) The 2009 Lusophony Games take place, with athletes from 12 Portuguese-speaking nations taking part.
- 2010 - Spain defeats Netherlands 1-0 winning the FIFA World Cup of soccer.
- 2010 - At the Potocari Memorial Centre in the suburbs of Srebrenica, Bosnia, 775 mainly Muslim Srebrenica massacre victims are buried on the 15th anniversary of the worst crime of genocide in Europe since World War II; about 60,000 attend the memorial, including Serbian president Boris Tadic.
- 2010 - Two bombs explode in Ugandan capital of Kampala, killing 74 people and injuring 70 in a rugby club and an Ethiopian restaurant; the bombings targeted football fans watching the World Cup final.
- 2018 - (to July 12) The 2018 Brussels NATO summit is held in Belgium.
- 2021 - Moldova holds a parliamentary election, with the Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) obtaining a majority of seats.
- 2021 - After taking off from Spaceport America, in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, USA, VMS Eve carrier aircraft launches VSS Unity rocket plane, with two pilots and four passengers, which then flies into space and back.
- 2021 - Thousands of Cubans, most of them young, attend a rare anti-government protest in San Antonio de los Baños to protest the increased food and medicine shortages brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
- 2022 - Death of Monty Norman at age 94; composer (James Bond theme).
- 2023 - Death of Milan Kundera at age 94 at home in Paris, France; Czech author (The Unbearable Lightness of Being book (1984)).
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