july 11

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) - 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 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.
1893 - The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
1895 - The brothers Lumire show film for scientists.
1897 - Salomon August Andr%e9e 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 Ptain 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.
1982 - Defeating West Germany 3–1 at Santiago Bernabu stadium, Italy wins 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 so-called Srebrenica Massacre.
1995 - A Cubana de Aviacion Antonov AN-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44