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 dies. Emperor of Constantinople (1206-16).
• 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.
• 1405 - Chinese fleet commander Zheng He set sail to explore the world for the first time.
• 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 - Luis de Góngora was born (d. 1627). Spanish poet.
• 1576 - Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.
• 1593 - Giuseppe Arcimboldo dies. First surrealist painter.
• 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.
• 1690 - In the Battle of the Boyne, King William III of England defeated former king James II, who was attempting to take back the throne.
• 1735 - Mathematical calculations suggest 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 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 - Jacques Necker dismissed as Finance Minister for France sparking the storming of the Bastille / O rei de França, Luís XVI, demite o seu ministro das finanças, Jacques 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 - Vice-President Aaron Burr provokes a duel with Alexander Hamilton & mortally wounded him in Weehawken, New Jersey / Alexander Hamilton dies, fatally shot in a duel in Weehawken, New Jersey by Aaron Burr (b. 1757). United States Secretary of the Treasury
• 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.
• 1828 - Portugal: D. Miguel, de tendência absolutista, é aclamado Rei de Portugal
• 1832 - Carlos Holguín Mallarino was born. President of Colombia (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.
• 1863 - Angered by unfair practices in Civil War conscription, New York City workers rioted and attacked draft headquarters.
• 1864 - Confederate forces attempt an invasion of Washington DC.
• 1873 - Emile Zola play, "Therese Raquin," opens in Paris.
• 1889 - Tijuana, Mexico was founded
• 1892 - Thomas Mitchell was born in Elisabeth, New Jersey (17 Dez 1962). American actor.
• 1892 - France: Ravachol dies (b. 1859). Anarchist bandit and advocate of "propaganda of the deed," the subject of popular myth and song ("La Ravachole, sur l'air de la Carmagnole")
• 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 ( Stuart Little, Charlotte’s Web, Is Sex Necessary?, The Elements of Style);
• 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.
• 1906 - Daniel Martins was born. Portuguese actor.
• 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, for the Boston Red Sox.
• 1915 - Yul Brynner was born (d. 10 Oct 1985). Actor :The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Seven, Anastasia, The Brothers Karamazov, Futureworld, Westworld;
• 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
• 1916 - One of America’s great race horses died. Dan Patch was the celebrated horse that had never lost a race. Mr. Savage died several days after his beloved trotter died.
• 1918 - Argentina: Simon Radowitzky (Szymon Radowicki) escapes from the Ushuaya concentration camp on the Tierra del Fuego island.
• 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.
• 1923 - José Albano dies in France (b. 12 Apr 1882). Brazilian poet and diplomat.
• 1924 - Brett Somers was born. Canadian actor
• 1924 - César Lattes was born (d. 2005). Brazilian physicist.
• 1924 - Charlie Tully was born (d. 1971). Northern Irish footballer.
• 1925 - Nicolai Gedda was born. Swedish tenor
• 1926 - Frederick Buechner was born. American author.
• 1927 - Theodore H. Maiman was born. Physicist.
• 1929 - Hermann Prey was born (d. 1998). German baritone.
• 1929 - Nenny Andersen was born in Copenhagen. Danish poet and jazz musician.
• 1929 - Luís Norton Barreto Murat dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 4 May 1861). Brazilian poet, revolutionary and abolicionist.
• 1930 - Harold Bloom was born. American literary critic
• 1931 - Tab Hunter was born. American actor
• 1934 - Giorgio Armani was born. Italian fashion designer.
• 1935 - Oliver Napier was born. Northern Irish politician
• 1936 - Triborough Bridge in New York City linking Manhattan, Bronx & Queens opened to traffic.
• 1937 - George Gershwin dies in Los Angeles (b. 26 Sep 1898). American composer.
• 1938 - Afonso Celso dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 31 Mar 1860). Brazilian poet.
• 1939 - Seth Gaaikema was born. Dutch comedian
• 1940 - Vichy Regime formally established in France. (and Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France).
• 1943 - World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily - German troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.
• 1944 - Franklin D. Roosevelt says he will run for a fourth term as president of the United States.
• 1944 - Patricia Polacco was born in Michigan. American writer: The Keeping Quilt, My Rotten Brother, Ralph, Thundercake, Mrs. Katz and Tush.
• 1946 - Paul Nash dies. English painter.
• 1949 - Liona Boyd was born. English-born classical guitarist
• 1950 - Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank.
• 1950 - Bruce McGill was born. American actor .
• 1950 - Bonnie Pointer was born. Grammy Award-winning singer
• 1953 - Leon Spinks, who, like his brother Michael, won a world boxing title—the first set of brothers to do so — was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
• 1953 - Nascimento de Margarida Martins. Fundadora da instituição de solidariedade "Abraço" (Portugal)
• 1955 - The phrase In God We Trust is added to all US currency.
• 1955 - The U.S. Air Force Academy officially opened at temporary quarters at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver
• 1956 - Sela Ward was born. American actress
• 1957 - Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherites the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismaili worldwide, after the passing away of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III
• 1957 - Michael Rose was born. Jamaican musician (Black Uhuru)
• 1957 - Peter Murphy was born. Singer, group: Bauhaus
• 1958 - Hugo Sánchez was born. Mexican footballer .
• 1958 - Lúcia Veríssimo was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian actress
• 1958 - João Guerra was born. Portuguese film director.
• 1959 - Songster and pacifist Joan Baez records a duet with Bob Gibson at the Newport Folk Festival; it is her first recording.
• 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.
• 1960 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published.
• 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 (b. 24 Jul 1890). 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.
• 1978 - A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.
• 1979 - The space station Skylab returns to Earth.
• 1980 - El Slavador: Jaime Suarez Quemain, El Salvadoran poet is assassinated by the army.
• 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.
• 1992 - O escritor português José Saramago recebe o Prémio de Novelística da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores, pelo seu romance O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo.
• 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.
• 1995 - A Cubana de Aviacion Antonov An-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44 people.
• 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.
• 2003 - Unión Africana reunida en Maputo, Mozambique, adopta el Protocolo de los Derechos de la Mujer en África.
• 2003 - Lahore-Delhi bus service resumed after suspension of 18 months.
• 2004 - CIA Director George Tenet leaves his position at the CIA.
• 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.
• 2005 - Gretchen Franklin dies (b. 1911). English actress.
• 2005 - Frances Langford dies (b. 1914). American actress and singer.
• 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)
• Portugal: Municipal hollyday in Santo Tirso