About July 11

July 11, 2023 is the 192nd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 173 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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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 214 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On July 11

  • 1405 –
    Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.
  • 1776 –
    Captain James Cook begins his third voyage.
  • 1789 –
    Jacques Necker is dismissed as France’s Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille.
  • 1804 –
    A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
  • 1889 –
    Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.
  • 1893 –
    The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
  • 1897 –
    Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
  • 1919 –
    The eight-hour working day and free Sunday become law in the Netherlands.
  • 1936 –
    The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
  • 1943 –
    World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily – German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.
  • 1947 –
    The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
  • 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 –
    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published.
  • 1960 –
    Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • 1962 –
    First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
  • 1971 –
    Copper mines in Chile are nationalized.
  • 1972 –
    The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.
  • 1979 –
    America’s first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
  • 1987 –
    According to the United Nations, the world population crosses the 5,000,000,000 (5 billion) mark.
  • 1991 –
    A Nationair DC-8 crashes during an emergency landing at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing 261.

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