Notable Historical Events on July 11th
July 11th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
911 |
Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy. |
1156 |
Siege of Shirakawa-den in Japan. |
1244 |
Chwarizneense Turken defeats Jerusalem |
1302 |
Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch) near Kortrijk, Belgium. Flemish coalition defeat French army |
1346 |
Charles IV of Luxembourg is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. |
1347 |
Heir to the Bohemian throne elected German anti-king Charles IV |
1376 |
English "Good Parliament" meets |
1405 |
Chinese fleet commander Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time. |
1423 |
Arnold van Egmont becomes Duke of Gelre |
1476 |
Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances. |
1525 |
Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius at The Hague |
1533 |
Pope Clement VII excommunicates England's King Henry VIII |
1576 |
Martin Frobisher sights Greenland. |
1588 |
French King Henri III accept demands of Catholic League |
1616 |
Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec. |
1635 |
Armies of Savoye/Mantua/Parma occupy Milan |
1673 |
Netherlands & Denmark sign defense treaty |
1690 |
Battle of Drogheda Boyne (William III beat deposed James II) |
1708 |
Battle at Oudenaarde: Great Alliance beats France |
1735 |
Mathematical calculations suggest that 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 |
Jews are expelled from Little Russia by order of Tsarina Anne |
1750 |
Halifax, Nova Scotia, is almost completely destroyed by fire. |
1776 |
Captain James Cook begins his third voyage |
1781 |
Thomas Hutchins designated Geographer of US |
1792 |
Prussia army moves into French territory |
1798 |
US Marine Corps established by an act of Congress |
1801 |
French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons discovers his 1st comet |
1804 |
Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel. |
1811 |
Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoir about molecular content of gases. |
1812 |
US invades Canada (Detroit frontier) |
1818 |
Keats writes "In the Cottage Where Burns is Born," "Lines Written in the Highlands," & "Gadfly" |
1848 |
Edmund Hickly gets 1st known 10 wicket innings (Kent v England) |
1848 |
London's Waterloo Station opens |
1861 |
Battle of Laurel Mountain VA - Gen Morris forces retreat of rebels |
1861 |
Battle of Rich Mountain, VA - Rosecrans forces rebels to surrender |
1862 |
Lincoln appoints General Halleck general-in-chief |
1863 |
Battle at Green River, Ky (Morgan's Ohio Raid) |
1863 |
Japanese battle cruiser shoots at Dutch warship Medusa, kills 4 |
1864 |
Battle of Fort Stevens, DC (Early's Raid, Tennallytown, MD) |
1864 |
Confederate forces led by Gen J Early begin invasion of Wash DC |
1877 |
Kate Edger becomes New Zealand's first woman graduate and the first woman in the British Empire to earn a Bachelor of Arts |
1882 |
British fleet bombs Alexandria |
1888 |
118°F (48°C), Bennett, Colorado (state record) |
1888 |
Pennsylvania's Monongehela River rises 32' after 24 hour rainfall |
1889 |
Tijuana in Mexico becomes a city |
1892 |
US Patent Office says J W Swan, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp |
1893 |
The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto. |
1893 |
A revolution led by the liberal general and politician, José Santos Zelaya, takes over state power in Nicaragua. |
1895 |
Auguste & Louis Lumière show film for scientists |
1896 |
Wilfrid Laurier sworn in as the 7th Prime Minister of Canada |
1897 |
Solomon Andree leaves Spitsbergen by balloon towards North Pole |
1900 |
Boer general De la Rey captures Scots Greys & Lincolns |
1902 |
British premier Lord Salisbury resigns |
1905 |
Black intellectuals & activists lead by WEB Dubois organize the civil rights Niagara Movement |
1906 |
The Gillette-Brown murder inspires Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy. |
1914 |
Babe Ruth debuts as a pitcher for Boston Red Sox, he beats Cleve 4-3 |
1915 |
German cruiser Königsberg sinks off Dar-es-Salam |
1916 |
Congress passes Federal Aid Road Act |
1916 |
Germany launches final offensive in the Battle of Verdun |
1919 |
Dutch 2nd chamber approves 8-hour day/No Sunday work |
1921 |
Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day) |
1922 |
The Hollywood Bowl opens. |
1923 |
Harry Frazee, sells Red Sox to Ohio businessmen for $1M |
1924 |
Moslem-Hindu rebellion in Delhi, India |
1925 |
Queen Wilhelmina names H Colijn head of government |
1930 |
Bradman scores 309 in a day vs England at Leeds, goes on to 334 |
1931 |
NY Giants beat Phillies 23-8 |
1934 |
FDR became 1st US president to travel through Panama Canal |
1936 |
Triborough Bridge linking Manhattan, Bronx & Queens opens |
1939 |
7th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Yankee Stadium, New York NY Yankee/AL maanager Joe McCarthy starts 6 Yankees |
1940 |
British & German dogfight above Lyme Bay |
1940 |
Marshall Henri Petain, French hero of World War One, becomes head of the collaborative Vichy government of France. |
1941 |
German troops attack Dnjepr |
1943 |
7th day of battle at Kursk |
1943 |
Counter attack by Hermann Goering Armoured division in Sicily |
1943 |
US 45th Division occupies airport Comiso Sicily |
1943 |
US 82nd Airborne division shot at by "friendly fire" in Sicily |
1943 |
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia. |
1944 |
12th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh |
1944 |
Franklin Roosevelt announces that he will run for a fourth term as President of the United States. |
1946 |
Kingman Douglass ends term as deputy director of CIA |
1948 |
1st air bombing of Jerusalem |
1950 |
17th 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 |
1952 |
Gen Eisenhower nominated as Republican US presidential candidate |
1954 |
1st White Citizens Council organizes in Indianola, Miss |
1955 |
Congress authorizes all US currency to say "In God We Trust" |
1955 |
New USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colorado with 300 cadets |
1960 |
28th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, KC |
1960 |
Czechoslovakia adopts Constitution |
1960 |
Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta & Niger declare independence |
1960 |
Moise Tsjombe declares Congolese county Katanga independence |
1961 |
30th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 in 10 at Candlestick Pk, SF |
1961 |
Gene Kiniski beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ |
1962 |
1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I) |
1962 |
Brothers Hank & Tommie Aaron homer in same inning |
1962 |
Cosmonaut Micolaev set then record longest space flight - 4 days |
1962 |
Fred Baldasare is 1st to swim English Channel underwater (scuba) |
1962 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
1962 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1963 |
South-African ANC Walter Sisulu/Andrew Mlangeni/Govan Mbeki arrested |
1965 |
Israeli Mapai-party nominates David Ben-Gurion |
1965 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Midwest Golf Open |
1967 |
38th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-1 in 15 at Anaheim Stadium, CA |
1967 |
All star MVP: Tony Perez (Cin Reds) |
1967 |
Kenny Rogers forms 1st Edition |
1968 |
Earl Weaver replaces Hank Bauer as manager of Orioles |
1968 |
Start of Colin Cowdrey's 100th Test, 1st person to do so |
1969 |
David Bowie releases "Space Oddity" |
1969 |
Rolling Stones release "Honky Tonk Woman" |
1971 |
Chilean parliament nationalizes US copper mines |
1971 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic |
1971 |
Phillies Deron Johnson 3 HRs caps his 4 in a row |
1971 |
The Irish Republican Army set off a number of bombs in the centre of Belfast injuring a number of people |
1973 |
Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris, 122 killed |
1974 |
House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry |
1974 |
World Football League plays 1st games |
1975 |
Chinese archeologists discover a 3-acre burial site with 6,000 clay statues of warriors dating as early as 221 BC |
1976 |
1st US football club in Austria forms (FAAFC-1st Austrian American) |
1976 |
31st US Women's Open Golf Championship won by JoAnne Carner |
1976 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1976 |
In pre-game promo at Atlanta County Stadium, 34 couples wed at home plate followed by Championship Wrestling "Headlocks & Wedlocks" |
1977 |
US Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Rev Martin Luther King Jr |
1978 |
49th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-3 at San Diego Stadium |
1978 |
All star MVP: Steve Garvey (LA Dodgers) |
1978 |
Auto with liquid gas crashes & explodes in Spain, 160 killed |
1979 |
US Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia & disintegrates |
1980 |
American hostage Richard Queen freed by Iran militants due to illness |
1981 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1981 |
Neva Rockefeller is 1st woman ordered to pay her husband alimony |
1981 |
Sebastian Coe of UK sets record for 1K (2:12.18) |
1982 |
"7 Brides for 7 Brothers" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 5 perfs |
1982 |
3rd US Seniors Golf Open: Miller Barber |
1982 |
Hollis Stacy wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic |
1982 |
Italy beats West Germany 3-1 for soccer's 12th World Cup in Madrid |
1983 |
Lorraine Elizabeth Downes, 19, of NZ, crowned 32nd Miss Universe |
1984 |
55th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-1 at Candlestick Park, SF |
1984 |
All star MVP: Gary Carter (Mont Expos) |
1984 |
Britain's MusicBox begins satellite transmission to Europe |
1984 |
Government orders air bags or seat belts would be required in cars by 1989 |
1984 |
Lucas Mangope re-elected president of Bophuthatswana |
1985 |
Astros' Nolan Ryan, 1st to strike out 4000 (Mets' Danny Heep) |
1985 |
Refurbished space shuttle Columbia moves overland from Palmdale to Dryden |
1985 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
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 |
Mary Beth Whitehead christens surrogate Baby M, Sara |
1987 |
Heart's "Alone" single goes #1 for 3 weeks |
1987 |
Orioles' Cal Ripkin becomes 1st to manage 2 sons, as Billy joins Cal |
1988 |
Mike Tyson hires Donald Trump as an advisor |
1989 |
60th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim All star MVP: Bo Jackson (KC Royals) |
1989 |
President Ronald Reagan sportscasts All Star Game |
1990 |
NYC police arrest "Dartman" (stabbed over 50 women with darts) |
1990 |
Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins. |
1991 |
Calumet Farm, home to 8 Kentucky Derby winners, files bankruptcy |
1991 |
Nigerian DC-8 crashes near Djeddah, 261 die |
1991 |
Total solar eclipse is seen in Hawaii |
1992 |
Pres candidate Ross Perot at NAACP speech calls them "you people" |
1993 |
14th US Seniors Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus |
1993 |
Nancy Lopez wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic |
1994 |
Suriname guilder devalued: NŸ1 = SŸ105 |
1995 |
66th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-2 at Ballpark at Arlington Tx |
1995 |
All star MVP: Jeff Conine (Fla Marlins) |
1995 |
7,000 Bosnian Muslim men are massacred when Bosnian Serbs overrun the UN 'safe haven' of Srebrenica. |
1999 |
20th US Seniors Golf Open: at Des Moines GC, W Des Moines, Iowa |
2000 |
71st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 6-3 at Turner Field, Atlanta |
2001 |
Iraq resumes oil exports, ending a 5-week halt in protest of a US and British-sponsored UN Security Council resolution |
2006 |
209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India. |
2006 |
77th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-2 at PNC Park, Pittsburgh |
2007 |
15th ESPY Awards: LaDainian Tomlinson, Taryne Mowatt win |
2010 |
Spain beats Netherlands 1-0 for soccer's 19th World Cup in South Africa (1st title) |
2011 |
Neptune completes its first orbit since its discovery on September 23, 1846. |
2012 |
POliciy academy suicide bombing kills 20 in Sana'a, Yemen |
2012 |
S/2012 P 1, the fifth moon of Pluto is discovered |
2012 |
20th ESPY Awards: LeBron James, Brittney Griner win |
2012 |
Steve Nash is traded by the Phoenix Suns to the Los Angeles Lakers |
2013 |
30 people are killed in a wave of bomb and gun attacks across Iraq |
2016 |
Portugal stuns host France to win Euro 2016 |
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