What happened on July 11? There are more than 299 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About July 11
July 11 is the 193rd day of the year 2024. There are 173 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday. This day falls under the 28th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Grand Rapids, Michigan 49505 sunrise occured at 06:12 AM and sunset occured at 09:23 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Cancer. The modern birthstone for this month is Ruby while the mystical birthstone is Ruby.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 202 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For July 11
- 472After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in the Old St. Peter’s Basilica and put to death.
- 911Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy.
- 1302Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch) – a coalition around the Flemish cities defeats the king of France’s royal army.
- 1346Charles IV of Luxembourg is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1405Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.
- 1476Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances.
- 1576Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.
- 1616Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
- 1735Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979.
- 1740Pogrom: Jews are expelled from Little Russia.
- 1750Halifax, Nova Scotia is almost completely destroyed by fire.
- 1776Captain James Cook begins his third voyage.
- 1789Jacques Necker is dismissed as France’s Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille.
- 1796The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.
- 1798The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.
- 1801French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons made his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovered another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
- 1804A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
- 1833Noongar Australian aboriginal warrior Yagan, wanted for the murder of white colonists in Western Australia, is killed.
- 1848Waterloo railway station in London opens.
- 1864American Civil War: Battle of Fort Stevens; Confederate forces attempt to invade Washington, D.C.
- 1882The British Mediterranean fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
- 1889Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.
- 1893A revolution led by the liberal general and politician, José Santos Zelaya, takes over state power in Nicaragua.
- 1893The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
- 1895The Lumière brothers demonstrate film technology to scientists.
- 1897Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
- 1906The Gillette-Brown murder inspires Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.
- 1914Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major league baseball.
- 1919The eight-hour working day and free Sunday become law in the Netherlands.
- 1920In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany
- 1921A truce is called in the Irish War of Independence; see Irish calendar.
- 1921Former U.S. President William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person to ever be both President and Chief Justice.
- 1921The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army and establishes the Mongolian People’s Republic.
- 1922The Hollywood Bowl opens.
- 1930Australian cricketer Don Bradman scores a world record 309 runs in one day, on his way to the highest individual Test innings of 334, during a Test match against England.
- 1936The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
- 1940World War II: Vichy France regime is formally established. Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1943Massacres of Poles in Volhynia.
- 1943World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily – German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.
- 1947The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
- 1950Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank.
- 1957Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismaili worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III.
- 1960To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published.
- 1960Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 1960Independence of Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger.
- 1962First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
- 1971Copper mines in Chile are nationalized.
- 1972The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.
- 1973Varig Flight 820 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 of the 134 on-board.
- 1977Martin Luther King Jr. is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
- 1978Los Alfaques Disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.
- 1979America’s first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
- 1983A Boeing 737 crashes into hilly terrain after a tail strike in Cuenca, Ecuador, claiming 119 lives.
- 1987According to the United Nations, the world population crosses the 5,000,000,000 (5 billion) mark.
- 1990Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins.
- 1991A Nationair DC-8 crashes during an emergency landing at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing 261.
- 1995A Cubana de Aviación Antonov An-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44 people.
- 2006209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
- 2011Neptune completes its first orbit since its discovery on September 23, 1846.
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Who Were Born On July 11?
- 154Bardaisan, Syriac gnostic (d. 222)
- 1274Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (d. 1329)
- 1366Anne of Bohemia, consort of Richard II of England (d. 1394)
- 1561Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet (d. 1627)
- 1603Kenelm Digby, English privateer (d. 1665)
- 1628Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)
- 1657King Frederick I of Prussia (d. 1713)
- 1662Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (d. 1726)
- 1709Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, Swedish chemist (d. 1785)
- 1723Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer (d. 1799)
- 1751Caroline Matilda of Wales, queen consort of Denmark and Norway (d. 1775)
- 1754Thomas Bowdler, English physician and censor (d. 1825)
- 1767John Quincy Adams, American politician, 8th United States Secretary of State & 6th President of the United States (d. 1848)
- 1826Alexander Afanasyev, Russian folklorist (d. 1871)
- 1832Charilaos Trikoupis, Greek politician (d. 1896)
- 1836Antônio Carlos Gomes, Brazilian composer (d. 1896)
- 1846Léon Bloy, French writer (d. 1917)
- 1850Annie Armstrong, American missionary leader (d. 1938)
- 1851Millie and Christine McCoy, Conjoined twins (d. 1912)
- 1864Petar Danov, Bulgarian spiritual teacher (d. 1944)
- 1866Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1953)
- 1882Jim White, discoverer of Carlsbad Caverns (d. 1946)
- 1886Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (d. 1939)
- 1888Carl Schmitt, German philosopher and political theorist (d. 1985)
- 1892Thomas Mitchell, American film actor and screenwriter (d. 1962)
- 1895Dolly Wilde, English socialite (d. 1941)
- 1897Eugene “Bull” Connor, American law enforcement official (d. 1973)
- 1899E. B. White, American writer (d. 1985)
- 1903Rudolf Abel, Soviet intelligence officer (d. 1971)
- 1903Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (d. 1976)
- 1904Niño Ricardo, Spanish flamenco guitarist (d. 1972)
- 1906Herbert Wehner, German politician (d. 1990)
- 1910Irene Hervey, American actress (d. 1998)
- 1912William F. Walsh, American politician (d. 2011)
- 1913Cordwainer Smith, American writer (d. 1966)
- 1916Alexander Mikhaylovich Prokhorov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
- 1916Gough Whitlam, 21st Prime Minister of Australia
- 1916Reg Varney, English actor (d. 2008)
- 1918Venetia Burney, namer of the dwarf planet Pluto (d. 2009)
- 1920James von Brunn, perpetrator of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting (d. 2010)
- 1920Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (d. 1985)
- 1921Ilse Werner, Dutch-born actress (d. 2005)
- 1922Gene Evans, American actor (d. 1998)
- 1923Richard Pipes, American historian
- 1924Brett Somers, Canadian-born actress (d. 2007)
- 1924César Lattes, Brazilian physicist (d. 2005)
- 1924Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1971)
- 1925Nicolai Gedda, Swedish tenor
- 1926Frederick Buechner, American author
- 1929Chuck Rio, Musician (d. 2006)
- 1929David Kelly, Irish actor
- 1929Hermann Prey, German baritone (d. 1998)
- 1930Harold Bloom, American literary critic
- 1931Tab Hunter, American actor
- 1931Thurston Harris, American singer (d. 1990)
- 1931Tullio Regge, Italian physicist
- 1932Jean-Guy Talbot, French Canadian ice hockey player
- 1934Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer
- 1935Frederick Hemke, American saxophonist
- 1935Oliver Napier, Northern Irish politician (d. 2011)
- 1937Pai Hsien-yung, Taiwanese writer
- 1938Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, American feminist scholar and historian
- 1940Yvon Charbonneau, French Canadian union leader and politician
- 1941Clive Puzey, Zimbabwean racing driver
- 1943Howard Gardner, American Psychologist
- 1943Oscar D'León, Venezuelan musician
- 1943Peter Jensen, Archbishop of Sydney
- 1943Rolf Stommelen, German race car driver (d. 1983)
- 1944Myra Gale Brown, former wife of cousin, Jerry Lee Lewis
- 1945Patrick Joseph McGrath, Catholic bishop
- 1946Beverly Todd American actress
- 1946Cuthbert Johnson, Benedictine abbot.
- 1947Bo Lundgren, Swedish politician
- 1949Liona Boyd, English-born musician
- 1949Tom Emanski, American baseball instructionalist
- 1950Bonnie Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters)
- 1950Bruce McGill, American actor
- 1950J. R. Morgan, British classical scholar
- 1950Pervez Hoodbhoy, Pakistani nuclear physicist
- 1951Ed Ott, American Baseball player
- 1951Robert R. McCammon, American horror novelist
- 1952Bill Barber, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1952John Kettley, English weather forecaster
- 1953Angélica Aragón, Mexican actress
- 1953Bramwell Tovey, English-born conductor and composer
- 1953Ivan Toms, South African physician
- 1953Leon Spinks, American former boxer
- 1953Maureen Cathryn Harriet “Cats” Falck, Swedish television journalist
- 1953Mindy Sterling, American actress
- 1953Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Mexican actress, director and producer
- 1953Paul Weiland, English director, writer and producer
- 1953Peter Brown, American singer, songwriter and producer
- 1953Samuel Russell Hinds, pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers
- 1953Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu, member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India
- 1953Wu Shu-chen, wife of former President Chen Shui-bian of the Republic of China
- 1954Butch Reed, American professional wrestler
- 1955Balaji Sadasivan, Singaporean politician and neurosurgeon (d. 2010)
- 1956Sela Ward, American actress
- 1957Michael Rose, Jamaican musician (Black Uhuru)
- 1957Peter Murphy, British musician (Bauhaus)
- 1958Andrew Gilbert-Scott, British racing driver
- 1958Hugo Sánchez, Mexican footballer
- 1959Dave Bennett, English footballer
- 1959Richie Sambora, American musician (Bon Jovi)
- 1959Suzanne Vega, American singer
- 1960David Baerwald American songwriter/composer
- 1962Gaetan Duchesne, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
- 1962Pauline McLynn, Irish actress
- 1963Al MacInnis, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1963Lisa Rinna, American actress
- 1964Craig Charles, English actor
- 1964Kyrill, Prince of Preslav, titular Bulgarian royal family
- 1965Ernesto Hoost, Dutch kickboxer
- 1965Scott Shriner, American musician (Weezer)
- 1965Tony Cottee, English footballer
- 1966Greg Grunberg, American actor
- 1966Kentaro Miura, Japanese manga artist
- 1966Mick Molloy, Australian comedian
- 1966Rod Strickland, American basketball player
- 1967Andy Ashby, American baseball player
- 1967Donne Wall, American baseball player
- 1967Jeff Corwin, American naturalist and TV personality
- 1968Daniel MacMaster, Canadian singer (Bonham) (d. 2008)
- 1968Esera Tuaolo, American football player
- 1968Michael Geist, Canadian academic
- 1969David Tao, Taiwanese singer-songwriter
- 1970Justin Chambers, American actor
- 1971Leisha Hailey, American actress and musician (Uh Huh Her)
- 1972Jussi 69, Finnish musician (The 69 Eyes)
- 1972Michael Rosenbaum, American actor
- 1972Steven Richards, Australian racing driver
- 1973Andrew Bird, American musician
- 1973Konstantinos Kenteris, Greek athlete
- 1974Alanas Chošnau, Lithuanian singer and songwriter
- 1974André Ooijer, Dutch footballer
- 1974Hermann Hreiðarsson, Icelandic footballer
- 1975Lil' Kim, American rapper
- 1975Nadya Suleman, American mother of octuplets
- 1975Riona Hazuki, Japanese actress
- 1975Rubén Baraja, Spanish footballer
- 1975Samer el Nahhal, Finnish musician (Lordi)
- 1975Willie Anderson, American football player
- 1976Eduardo Nájera, Mexican-born basketball player
- 1977Brandon Short, American football player
- 1978Jeff Rich, Sports Talk Radio Personality
- 1978Massimiliano Rosolino, Italian swimmer
- 1979Lauris Reiniks, Latvian singer
- 1979Raio Piiroja, Estonian footballer
- 1980Im Su-jeong, South Korean model and actress
- 1980TJ Wilson, Canadian professional wrestler
- 1981Andre Johnson, American football player
- 1981Carla Campbell, Jamaican model
- 1982Chris Cooley, American football player
- 1982Lil' Zane, American rapper
- 1983Evan Roberts, American radio broadcaster
- 1983Kellie Shirley, British actress
- 1983Kelly Poon, Singaporean singer
- 1983Marie Serneholt, Swedish musician (A*Teens)
- 1983Peter Cincotti, American singer-songwriter
- 1984Hitomi Hyuga, Japanese actress
- 1984Rachael Taylor, Australian actress
- 1984Tanith Belbin, Canadian/American ice dancer
- 1984Yorman Bazardo, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1985Aki Maeda, Japanese actress
- 1985Robert Adamson, American actor
- 1986Ryan Jarvis, English footballer
- 1986Yoann Gourcuff, French footballer
- 1987Shigeaki Kato, Japanese idol singer (NEWS)
- 1989David Henrie, American actor
- 1989Liel Kolet, Israeli singer
- 1990Caroline Wozniacki, Danish tennis player
- 1990Connor Paolo, American actor
- 1990George Craig, English singer (One Night Only)
- 1990Mona Barthel, German tennis player
- 1993Rebecca Bross, Gymnast
- 1995Tyler Medeiros, Canadian singer
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Who Died On July 11?
- 472Anthemius, Emperor of the Western Roman Empire
- 937King Rudolph II of Burgundy
- 969Olga of Kiev
- 1174King Amalric I of Jerusalem (b. 1136)
- 1183Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1117)
- 1302Robert II of Artois, French soldier (b. 1250)
- 1535Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (b. 1484)
- 1581Peder Skram, Danish senator and naval hero
- 1593Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian painter (b. 1527)
- 1679William Chamberlayne, English poet (b. 1619)
- 1688King Narai of Siam (b. 1629)
- 1766Elizabeth Farnese, wife of Philip V of Spain (b. 1692)
- 1774Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Irish-born New York pioneer (b. 1715)
- 1775Simon Boerum, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
- 1797Ienăchiţă Văcărescu, Wallachian writer (b. 1740)
- 1806James Smith, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1719)
- 1825Thomas P. Grosvenor, American Revolutionary War soldier (b. 1744)
- 1844Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (b. 1800)
- 1905Muhammad Abduh, Egyptian jurist and islamic modernist (b. 1849)
- 1909Simon Newcomb, American astronomer and mathematician (b. 1835)
- 1920Empress Eugénie de Montijo of France (b. 1826)
- 1929Billy Mosforth, English footballer (b. 1857)
- 1936James Murray, American actor (b. 1901)
- 1937George Gershwin, American composer (b. 1898)
- 1959Charlie Parker, English cricketer (b. 1882)
- 1966Delmore Schwartz, American poet (b. 1913)
- 1967Guy Favreau, Québécois, politician and judge (b. 1917)
- 1971John W. Campbell, American writer and editor (b. 1910)
- 1971Pedro Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (b. 1940)
- 1974Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1891)
- 1976León de Greiff, Colombian poet (b. 1895)
- 1979Claude Wagner, French Canadian judge and politician (b. 1925)
- 1983Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian writer (b. 1915)
- 1987Avi Ran, Israeli footballer (b. 1963)
- 1987Yaakov Yitzchak Ruderman, American Rosh Yeshiva (b. 1901)
- 1989Sir Laurence Olivier, acclaimed English stage and screen actor (b. 1907)
- 1991Hitoshi Igarashi, English-Japanese translator of The Satanic Verses (b. 1947)
- 1994Gary Kildall, American computer programmer (b. 1942)
- 1994Savannah, American porn star (b. 1970)
- 1998Panagiotis Kondylis, Greek writer, translator and publications manager (b. 1943)
- 1999Helen Forrest, American singer (b. 1917)
- 2000Pedro Mir, Dominican poet (b. 1913)
- 2000Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1921)
- 2001Gaspare di Mercurio, Italian doctor and author (b. 1926)
- 2001Herman Brood, Dutch singer and artist (b. 1946)
- 2004Laurance Rockefeller, American conservationist and philanthropist (b. 1910)
- 2005Don Starr, American actor (b. 1917)
- 2005Frances Langford, American actress and singer (b. 1914)
- 2005Gretchen Franklin, English actress (b. 1911)
- 2005Jesús Iglesias, Argentine professional racing driver (b. 1922)
- 2005Shinya Hashimoto, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1965)
- 2006Barnard Hughes, American actor (b. 1915)
- 2006John Spencer, English snooker player (b. 1935)
- 2007Alfonso López Michelsen, 32nd Colombian President (b. 1913)
- 2007Ed Mirvish, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1914)
- 2007Glenda Adams, Australian author (b. 1939)
- 2007Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
- 2008Michael DeBakey, American surgeon and inventor (b. 1908)
- 2009Arturo Gatti, Canadian boxer (b. 1972)
- 2009Go Mi-Young, South Korean female mountaineer (b. 1967)
- 2009Ji Xianlin, Chinese linguist and paleographer (b. 1911)
- 2010Bob Sheppard, New York Yankees and New York Giants announcer (b. 1910)
- 2010Walter Hawkins, Gospel music singer (b. 1949)
- 2011Rob Grill, American lead singer, songwriter and bass guitarist (b. 1943)
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