About July 11
July 11, 2025 is the 192nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 173 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 221 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.
- 1405 –Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.
- 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.
- 1740 –Pogrom: Jews are expelled from Little Russia.
- 1776 –Captain James Cook begins his third voyage.
- 1789 –Jacques Necker is dismissed as France’s Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille.
- 1833 –Noongar Australian aboriginal warrior Yagan, wanted for the murder of white colonists in Western Australia, is killed.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Battle of Fort Stevens; Confederate forces attempt to invade Washington, D.C.
- 1882 –The British Mediterranean fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
- 1914 –Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major league baseball.
- 1919 –The eight-hour working day and free Sunday become law in the Netherlands.
- 1921 –A truce is called in the Irish War of Independence; see Irish calendar.
- 1930 –Australian 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.
- 1943 –World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily – German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.
- 1957 –Prince 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.
- 1960 –Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 1971 –Copper mines in Chile are nationalized.
- 1973 –Varig Flight 820 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 of the 134 on-board.
- 1987 –According to the United Nations, the world population crosses the 5,000,000,000 (5 billion) mark.
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