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
- 1476 –Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances.
- 1616 –Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
- 1776 –Captain James Cook begins his third voyage.
- 1798 –The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.
- 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.
- 1833 –Noongar Australian aboriginal warrior Yagan, wanted for the murder of white colonists in Western Australia, is killed.
- 1889 –Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.
- 1914 –Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major league baseball.
- 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.
- 1922 –The Hollywood Bowl opens.
- 1943 –World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily – German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.
- 1960 –Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 1962 –First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
- 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.
- 1983 –A Boeing 737 crashes into hilly terrain after a tail strike in Cuenca, Ecuador, claiming 119 lives.
- 1990 –Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins.
- 1991 –A Nationair DC-8 crashes during an emergency landing at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing 261.
- 2006 –209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
- 2011 –Neptune completes its first orbit since its discovery on September 23, 1846.
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