Major Events
- 1405 Chinese fleet commander Zheng He sets sail on his first major expedition, to the Spice Islands, leading 208 vessels, including 62 treasure ships with 27,800 sailors
- 1533 Pope Clement VII excommunicates England's King Henry VIII
- 1818 English poet John Keats writes "In the Cottage Where Burns is Born", "Lines Written in the Highlands", and "Gadfly"
- 1877 Kate Edger becomes New Zealand’s first woman graduate and first woman in the British Empire to earn a Bachelor of Arts
- 1944 Franklin Roosevelt announces that he will run for a fourth term as President of the United States
- 1995 More than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys are massacred by Bosnian Serbs after they overrun the UN 'safe haven' of Srebrenica on directive of Radovan Karadžić
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Jul 11 in Film & TV
- 1967 "The Newlywed Game" premieres in the US on ABC TV
- 2013 "Orange Is the New Black" premieres on Netflix starring Taylor Schilling, first series to be nominated for comedy and drama Emmy awards
Jul 11 in Music
- 1969 David Bowie releases the single "Space Oddity" 9 days before Apollo 11 lands on the moon
Jul 11 in Sport
- 1900 Charlotte Cooper beats Hélène Prévost to become the 1st female Olympic tennis champion and the 1st individual female Olympic champion in any sport
Did You Know?
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee is first published by J. B. Lippincott & Co.
Robert the Bruce
John Quincy Adams
E. B. White
Frank Rosenblatt
Giorgio Armani
Yul Brynner
Richie Sambora
Alessia Cara
Leon Spinks
Caroline Wozniacki
Fun Fact About July 11
Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escapes from Altiplano maximum-security prison west of Mexico City via a specially constructed 1.5 km tunnel from his cell to a nearby house
Famous Weddings
- 1867 Businesswoman Hetty Green (32) weds Edward Henry Green
- 1877 Scientist and inventor Alexander Graham Bell (30) weds Mabel Hubbard (19) at the Hubbard estate in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- 1895 Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan and accused spy Mata Hari (18) weds Dutch colonial army Captain Rudolph MacLeod in Amsterdam
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George Gershwin
Aga Khan III
Owen D. Young
Laurence Olivier
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