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
- 1576 –Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.
- 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.
- 1776 –Captain James Cook begins his third voyage.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1940 –World War II: Vichy France regime is formally established. Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 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.
- 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.
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