About July 11
July 11, 2024 is the 193rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 173 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 202 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 11
- 1302 –Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch) – a coalition around the Flemish cities defeats the king of France’s royal army.
- 1476 –Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances.
- 1616 –Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
- 1735 –Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979.
- 1798 –The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.
- 1804 –A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
- 1848 –Waterloo railway station in London opens.
- 1893 –A revolution led by the liberal general and politician, José Santos Zelaya, takes over state power in Nicaragua.
- 1895 –The Lumière brothers demonstrate film technology to scientists.
- 1897 –Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
- 1906 –The Gillette-Brown murder inspires Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.
- 1921 –Former 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.
- 1936 –The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
- 1940 –World War II: Vichy France regime is formally established. Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1943 –World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily – German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.
- 1950 –Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank.
- 1960 –To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published.
- 1962 –First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
- 1971 –Copper mines in Chile are nationalized.
- 1990 –Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins.
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