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
- 472 –After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in the Old St. Peter’s Basilica and put to death.
- 911 –Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy.
- 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.
- 1789 –Jacques Necker is dismissed as France’s Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille.
- 1801 –French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons made his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovered another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
- 1804 –A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Battle of Fort Stevens; Confederate forces attempt to invade Washington, D.C.
- 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.
- 1920 –In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany
- 1921 –The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army and establishes the Mongolian People’s Republic.
- 1922 –The Hollywood Bowl opens.
- 1950 –Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank.
- 1977 –Martin Luther King Jr. is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
- 1978 –Los Alfaques Disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.
- 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.
- 1990 –Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins.
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