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2005-07-11

On this day in History - Jul 11

0472 - Anthemius, dies. Emperor of the Western Empire (legal murder)
0937 - Rudolph II of Burgundy dies.
0969 - Olga of Kiev dies.
1216 - Hendrik of Constantinople, emperor of Constantinople (1206-16), died.
1274 - Robert the Bruce, was born in Turnberry, Scotland (d. 1329). King of Scotland (1306-1329).
1276 - Início do pontificado do Papa Adriano V
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.
1533 - King Henry VIII of England who divorced his wife and became head of the church of England, was excommunicated from the Catholic Church by Pope Clement VII.
1561 - Nascimento de Luis de Góngora. Poeta espanhol.
1576 - Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.
1616 - Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
1657 - King Frederick I of Prussia was born (d. 1713) .
1679 - William Chamberlayne, dies (b. 1619). English poet.
1740 - Jews expelled from Little Russia.
1750 - Halifax, Nova Scotia almost completely destroyed by fire.
1754 - Thomas Bowdler, was born (d. 1825). English physican and censor.
1767 - John Quincy Adams, was born (d. 1848). President of the United States .
1776 - Captain James Cook begins third voyage.
1789 - O rei de França, Luís XVI, demite o seu ministro das finanças, Necker. O afastamento de Necker vai fomentar os distúrbios em Paris.
1796 - The U.S. takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.
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.
1804 - Alexander Hamilton, dies (b. 1757). United States Secretary of the Treasury (duel)
1811 - Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoir about molecular content of gases.
1822 - As Cortes Constituintes votam a Constituição. Foi a primeira Constituição portuguesa.
1832 - Nascimento de Carlos Holguín Mallarino . Presidente da Colômbia (1888-1892) .
1836- Nascimento em Campinas, S. Paulo, de Carlos Gomes (António Carlos Gomes), grande compositor erudito brasileiro.
1839 - Anatacio Bustamante assume (pela 3º vez) a presidência do México.
1844 - King Peter of Serbia was born (d. 1921).
1848 - The Waterloo railway station in London opens.
1857 - Alfred Binet, was born (d. 1911). French psychologist.
1859 - A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is published.
1864 - Confederate forces attempt an invasion of Washington DC.
1892 - Thomas Mitchell was born in Elisabeth, New Jersey (17 Dez 1962). American actor.
1893 - The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
1895 - The brothers Lumière show film for scientists.
1897 - Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to try to reach the North pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
1897 - Eugene "Bull" Connor, was born (d. 1973). Sheriff of Birmingham, Alabama.
1899 - E. B. White, was born (d. 1985). American writer.
1902 - Nascimento em São Paulo de Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, consagrado intelectual brasileiro.
1903 - O. E. Hasse, was born (d. 1978). Actor.
1906 - Herbert Wehner, was born (d. 1990). German politician.
1910 - Irene Hervey, was born (d. 1998). American actress.
1913 - Cordwainer Smith, was born (d. 1966). American writer.
1914 - Babe Ruth debuts in major league baseball.
1916 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov, was born (d. 2002). Russian physicist, Nobel Prize for Physics laureate in 1964 (with Nikolay G. Basov, USSR and Charles H. Townes, USA), "for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle." .
1916 - Bertrand Russell is suspended from Cambridge University for his protests against the First World War and had previously been fined for pacifist activities
1916 - Gough Whitlam, was born. Twenty-first Prime Minister of Australia
1919 - Eight-hour working day and free Sunday made into law in the Netherlands.
1920 - Yul Brynner, was born. Actor, was born (The King and I, The Ten Commandments) .
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).
1921 - Ilse Werner was born. Actress
1924 - Brett Somers, was born. Canadian actor
1925 - Nicolai Gedda, was born. Swedish tenor
1926 - Frederick Buechner, was born. American author.
1927 - Theodore H. Maiman, physicist, was born.
1929 - Hermann Prey, was born (d. 1998). German baritone.
1930 - Harold Bloom, was born. American literary critic
1931 - Tab Hunter, was born. American actor
1934 - Giorgio Armani, was born. Italian fashion designer
1936 - Triborough Bridge in New York City linking Manhattan, Bronx & Queens opened to traffic.
1937 - George Gershwin, dies (b. 26 Sep 1898). American composer.
1939 - Seth Gaaikema was born. Dutch comedian
1940 - Vichy Regime formally established in France. (and Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France).
1943 - The Germans counter-attack on Sicily.
1944 - Franklin D. Roosevelt says he will run for a fourth term as president of the United States.
1949 - Liona Boyd, was born. English-born classical guitarist
1950 - Bruce McGill, was born. American actor .
1953 - Nascimento de Margarida Martins . Fundadora da instituição de solidariedade 'Abraço'.
1955 - The phrase In God We Trust is added to all US currency.
1956 - Sela Ward, was born. American actress
1957 - Michael Rose, was born. Jamaican musician (Black Uhuru)
1958 - Hugo Sánchez, was born. Mexican footballer .
1958 - Nascimento, no Rio de Janeiro, de Lúcia Veríssimo, atriz do cinema brasileiro e TV
1959 - Suzanne Vega, was born in Santa Monica, California. American singer
1959 - Richie Sambora, was born. Guitarist (Bon Jovi)
1959 - Charlie Parker, dies (b. 1882). English cricketer.
1960 - Dahomey (now Benin), Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), and Niger all gain independence.
1962 - First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
1962 - Soviet cosmonaut Nikolayev is four days in space, a record.
1966 - Começa o Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol, na Inglaterra.
1968 - Esera Tuaolo, was born. American football player.
1968 - “Once Upon a Time in the West” premiered at German cinemas. It immediately became an international blockbuster due to its star cast (Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale and Henry Fonda), as well as its music.
1969 - Guilherme de Andrade e Almeida, dies. Brazilian writer and poet.
1971 - John W. Campbell, dies (b. 1910). Writer and editor
1971 - Copper mines in Chile nationalised.
1972 - Michael Rosenbaum was born in Oceanside, New York. American actor.
1973 - A Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport, resulting in the death of 122 people.
1973 - Konstantinos Kenteris, was born. Greek athlete
1974 - Hermann Hreidarsson, was born. Icelandic footballer
1974 - Pär Lagerkvist, dies. Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1975 - Lil' Kim, was born. American rapper
1975 - Chinese archeologists discover a large burial site with 6,000 clay statutes of warriors from 221 BC.
1976 - Eduardo Najera, was born. Mexican-born basketball player
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 Bernabéu 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.
1983 - Marie Eleonor Serneholt, was born. Swedish musician (A-Teens)
1984 - Tanith Belbin, was born. Canadian figure skater.
1987 - According to the United Nations, the world population crosses the 5,000,000,000 mark.
1989 - Sir Laurence Olivier, dies (b. 1907). English actor.
1991 - A Nigerian DC-8 crashes while landing at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia killing 261
1991 - Total solar eclipse in Hawaii.
1994 - Gary Kildall, dies. American computer programmer
1994 - Shannon Wilsey, dies (b. 1970). Best known as Savannah. American porno actress.
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.
1997 - A Cubana de Aviacion Antonov AN-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba 44
1998 - Some 600,000 people gathered in Berlin for the annual Love Parade, billed as the largest celebration of techno music.
1999 - Helen Forrest, dies (b. 1917). American jazz singer.
2000 - Robert Runcie, dies (b. 1921). Archbishop of Canterbury .
2001 - Herman Brood, dies ( suicide) (b. 1946). Dutch singer and artist.
2002 - Former Argentina junta leader Leopoldo Galtieri was arrested for the torture and execution of leftists during the military dictatorship (1976-1983).
2002 - In Venezuela an estimated 600,000 people marched demanding that Pres. Chavez abandon the presidency.
2004 - Pedro Santana Lopes é indicado para primeiro-ministro de Portugal
2004 - The 15th International AIDS conference began in Bangkok, Thailand.
2004 - Laurance Rockefeller, dies (b. 1910). American conservationist and philanthropist.
Em 1989, o Conselho de Administração do Programa das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento (PNUD) recomendou que a comunidade internacional celebrasse o dia 11 de Julho como Dia Mundial da População (ONU).
Belgium (partially) - Flemish Day (1302)
Benin - Independence Day (1960)
Burkina Faso - Independence Day (1960)
Ireland - National Day of Commemoration held on nearest Sunday to this date (see Irish calendar).
Mongolia - Naadam Holiday
Niger - Independence Day (1960)
Feast Day of Saint Olga (first Russian Saint)
Feast Day of Saint Benedict (founder of the Benedictine Order)


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