Today in History - History - July 11th

1934FDR became 1st US president to travel through Panama Canal

1892US Patent Office says J W Swan, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp

1533Pope Clement VII excommunicates England's King Henry VIII

1943Counter attack by Hermann Goering Armoured division in Sicily

1977US Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Rev Martin Luther King Jr

1965Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Midwest Golf Open

2012Steve Nash is traded by the Phoenix Suns to the Los Angeles Lakers

1985Astros' Nolan Ryan, 1st to strike out 4000 (Mets' Danny Heep)

195017th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 in 14 at Comiskey Park, Chic Ted Williams breaks his elbow; 1st extra inning All Star Game

1811Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoir about molecular content of gases.

1934Giorgio Armani, Piacenza Italy, fashion designer (American Gigolo)

1953Leon Spinks, St. Louis Missouri, heavyweight boxing champ (1978, Olympic-gold-1976)

1959Richie Sambora, Perth Amboy, NJ, guitarist, (Bon Jovi), boyfriend of Cher & Heather Locklear

1767John Quincy Adams, Braintree (Quincy) Massachusetts, 6th President of the United States (D) (1825-1829)

1954Football coach Al Davis (25) weds Carol Segal

2009Actor and film director Robert Redford (71) weds artist Sibylle Szaggars (51) at the luxurious Louis C. Jacob Hotel in Hamburg, Germany

1976Singer and actor Frank Sinatra (60) marries 4th wife Barbara Marx (45)

1867Businesswoman Hetty Green (32) weds Edward Henry Green

1955"Gone with the Wind" actor Clark Gable (54) weds former fashion model and actress Kay Spreckles

1895Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan, and accused spy Mata Hari (18) weds Dutch colonial army Captain Rudolph MacLeod in Amsterdam

1960Actress Gene Tierney (39) weds oil baron W. Howard Lee in Aspen, Colorado

1976Singer Andy Gibb (18) weds Kim Reeder in Australia

1980Actor Michael Biehn (23) weds actress Carlene Olson (25)

1877Scientist and inventor Alexander Graham Bell (30) weds Mabel Hubbard (19) at the Hubbard estate in Cambridge, Massachusetts

1994Gary Kildall, creator of CP/M, dies at 52

1926Gertrude Bell, British archaeologist, dies at 57