This Day in History for 11th July

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 166

911 - Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy.
1156 - Siege of Shirakawa-den in Japan.
1244 - Chwarizneense Turken defeats Jerusalem
1302 - Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch) near Kortrijk, Belgium. Flemish coalition defeat French army
1346 - Charles IV of Luxembourg is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1347 - Bohemia heir to the throne elected German anti-king Charles IV
1376 - English "Good Parliament" meets
1405 - Chinese fleet commander Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.
1423 - Arnold van Egmont becomes duke of Gelre
1476 - Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances.
1525 - Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius at The Hague
1533 - Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
1576 - Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.
1588 - French king Henri III accept demands of Catholic League
1616 - Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
1635 - Armies of Savoye/Mantua/Parma occupy Milan
1673 - Netherlands & Denmark signs defense treaty
1690 - Battle of Drogheda Boyne (Willem III (Neth-Engl) beat Jacobus II (Ire)
1708 - Battle at Oudenaarde: Great Alliance beats France
1735 - Mathematical calculations suggest that it was on this day that Pluto moved from the ninth to the eighth most distant planet from the Sun for the last time before 1979.
1740 - Jews are expelled from Little Russia by order of Czarina Anne
1750 - Halifax, Nova Scotia is almost completely destroyed by fire.
Captain/Explorer James Cook 1776 - Captain James Cook begins his third voyage
1781 - Thomas Hutchins designated Geographer of US
1792 - Prussia army moves into French territory
1798 - US Marine Corps established by an act of Congress
1801 - French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons discovers his 1st comet
1804 - Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
1811 - Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoir about molecular content of gases.
1812 - US invades Canada (Detroit frontier)
1818 - Keats writes "In the Cottage Where Burns is Born," "Lines Written in the Highlands," & "Gadfly"
1848 - Edmund Hickly gets 1st known 10 wicket innings (Kent v England)
1848 - London's Waterloo Station opens
1861 - Battle of Laurel Mountain VA - Gen Morris forces retreat of rebels
1861 - Battle of Rich Mountain, VA - Rosecrans forces rebels to surrender
1862 - Lincoln appoints General Halleck general-in-chief
1863 - Battle at Green River Ky (Morgan's Ohio Raid)
Savant Amedeo Avogadro 1863 - Japanese battle cruiser shoots at Dutch warship Medusa, kills 4
1864 - Battle of Fort Stevens, DC (Early's Raid, Tennallytown, MD)
1864 - Confederate forces led by Gen J Early begin invasion of Wash DC
1882 - British fleet bombs Alexandria
1888 - 118°F (48°C), Bennett, Colorado (state record)
1888 - Pennsylvania's Monongehela River rises 32' after 24 hour rainfall
1889 - Tijuana in Mexico becomes a city
1892 - US Patent Office says J W Swan, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp
1893 - The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
1893 - A revolution led by the liberal general and politician, José Santos Zelaya, takes over state power in Nicaragua.
1895 - Auguste & Louis Lumière show film for scientists
1897 - Solomon Andree leaves Spitsbergen by balloon towards North Pole
1900 - Boer general De la Rey captures Scots Greys & Lincolns
1902 - British premier Lord Salisbury resigns
1905 - Black intellectuals & activists organize Niagara movement
Inventor Thomas Edison 1905 - Niagara Movement founded by WEB Dubois
1906 - The Gillette-Brown murder inspires Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
1914 - Babe Ruth debuts as a pitcher for Boston Red Sox, he beats Cleve 4-3
1915 - Germany cruiser Königsberg sinks off Dar-es-Salam
1916 - 1st federal grant-in-aid for state roads enacted
1916 - Congress passes Federal Aid Road Act
1916 - Germany launches final offensive in the Battle of Verdun
1919 - Dutch 2nd chamber approves 8-hour day/No Sunday work
1921 - Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day)
1922 - The Hollywood Bowl opens.
1923 - Harry Frazee, sells Red Sox to Ohio businessmen for $1M
1924 - Moslem-Hindu rebellion in Delhi
1925 - Queen Wilhelmina names H Colijn head of government
1930 - Bradman scores 309 in a day vs England at Leeds, goes on to 334
1931 - NY Giants beat Phillies 23-8
Baseball Great Babe Ruth 1934 - FDR became 1st pres to travel through Panama Canal
1936 - Triborough Bridge linking Manhattan, Bronx & Queens opens
1939 - 7th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Yankee Stadium, New York NY Yankee/AL maanager Joe McCarthy starts 6 Yankees
1940 - British & German dogfight above Lyme Bay
1941 - German troops attack Dnjepr
1943 - 7th day of battle at Kursk
1943 - Counter attack by Hermann Goering Armour division in Sicily
1943 - US 45th Division occupies airport Comiso Sicily
1943 - US 82nd Airborne division shot at, by "friendly fire" in Sicily
1943 - Massacres of Poles in Volhynia.
1944 - 12th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh
1944 - FDR says he would run for a 4th term
1944 - Franklin Roosevelt announces that he will run for a fourth term as President of the United States.
1946 - Kingman Douglass, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1948 - 1st air bombing of Jerusalem
32nd US President Franklin Roosevelt 1950 - 17th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 in 14 at Comiskey Park, Chic Ted Williams breaks his elbow; 1st extra inning All Star Game
1952 - Gen Eisenhower nominated as Republican presidential candidate
1954 - 1st White Citizens Council organizes in Indianola, Miss
1955 - Congress authorizes all US currency to say "In God We Trust"
1955 - New USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colo with 300 cadets
1960 - 28th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, KC
1960 - Czechoslovakia adopts Constitution
1960 - Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta & Niger declare independence
1960 - Moise Tsjombe declares Congolese county Katanga independence
1961 - 30th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 in 10 at Candlestick Pk, SF
1961 - Gene Kiniski beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
1962 - 1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I)
1962 - Brothers Hank & Tommie Aaron homer in same inning
1962 - Cosmonaut Micolaev set then record longest space flight - 4 days
1962 - Fred Baldasare is 1st to swim English Channel underwater (scuba)
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - South-African ANC Walter Sisulu/Andrew Mlangeni/Govan Mbeki arrested

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 225

154 - Bar Daisan, [Bardesanes], Syrian theologist
1274 - Robert Bruce, King of Scots (1306-29)
1366 - Anne of Bohemia, consort of Richard II of England (d. 1394)
1540 - Adolf van Nassau, German son of Willem the Rich/Juliana of Stolberg
1558 - Robert Greene, Elizabethan dramatist (Friar Bacon)
1561 - Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet (d. 1627)
1603 - Kenelm Digby, English privateer (d. 1665)
1628 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)
1657 - Frederik I, King of Prussia (1701-13)
1662 - Maximilian II Emanuel, elect of Bayern
1694 - Charles-Antoine Coypel, French carpet designer
1697 - Jean-Baptiste-Bourguignon d'Anville, French geographer/cartographer
1709 - Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, Swedish chemist (d. 1785)
1723 - Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer (d. 1799)
1738 - Albert-Kasimir, duke of Saxon/viceroy of Hungary/Netherlands
1751 - Caroline Matilda of Wales, queen consort of Denmark and Norway (d. 1775)
1754 - Thomas Bowdler, famous prude, bowdlerized Shakespeare
1767 - John Quincy Adams, Braintree (Quincy) Mass, 6th Pres (D) (1825-1829)
1810 - Eugene L Simonis, Belgian sculptor
1811 - Joseph Lanman, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1874
1816 - French A Durlet, Belgian sculptor/architect
1824 - Adolphe-Abraham Samuel, composer
1825 - Edward Henry Hobson, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1901
1826 - Alexander Afanasyev, Russian folklorist (d. 1871)
1832 - Charilaos Trikoupis, Greek politician (d. 1896)
1836 - Carlos Gomez, composer
1837 - Paul Lacombe, composer
1838 - John Wanamaker, merchant (Wanamakers Dept Store)
1841 - Daniel de Lange, Dutch composer
1841 - William Paul Roberts, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
1844 - Peter I Karadjordjevic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia
1846 - Leon Bloy, French writer (d. 1917)
1850 - Annie Armstrong, American missionary leader (d. 1938)
1851 - Millie & Christine, NC, siamese twins
1857 - Alfred Binet, French child psychologist
1857 - Iacob Moresianu, composer
1860 - Johannis J van Laar, Dutch chemist (thermodynamics)
1861 - Anton Stepanovich Arensky, composer
1861 - George William Norris, (Rep/Sen-Neb) (Lame duck-amendement)
1862 - Liza Nina Mary Frederica Lehmann, composer
1864 - Petar Danov, Bulgarian spiritual teacher (d. 1944)
1866 - R Beer-Hofmann, writer
1866 - Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1953)
1871 - Stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Farmers' Party)
1885 - Roger de la Fresnaye, French sculptor/painter
1886 - Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (d. 1939)
1888 - Carl Schmitt, German nazi-lawyer (Verfassungslehre)
1888 - Lyman Bryson, Valentine Nebr, educator (UN Casebook)
1889 - Alfred E Green, Perris CA, director (Copacabana, Jolson Story)
1890 - Arthur W Tedder of Glenguin, British air marshal (WW II)
1890 - Georg Annenkov, Russian/French painter
1892 - Giorgio Federico Ghedini, composer
1892 - Thomas Mitchell, NJ, academy award winning actor (Outlaw, Adventures)
1893 - Jack Durston, cricketer (England fast bowler against Australia 1921)
1894 - Walter Wanger, [Feuchtwanger], US producer (Stagecoach)
1895 - Dolly Wilde, English socialite (d. 1941)
1897 - Blind Lemon Jefferson, blues musician
1897 - Bull Connor, American law enforcement official (d. 1973)
1898 - Hendrik J Pos, Dutch philosopher/CEO (Committee of Watchfulness)
1898 - Herman de Man, [Salomon H Hamburger], Dutch writer/Radio Orange
Writer E B White (1899) 1899 - E B White, writer (Charlotte's Web, Elements of Style), (d. 1985)
1902 - Leo Collard, Belgian minister of Education (1946/54-58)
1902 - Samuel Abraham Goldsmith, Dutch/US phycist
1903 - Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (d. 1976)
1906 - Harry Von Zell, Indianapolis Ind, TV announcer (Burns & Allen)
1906 - Herbert Wehner, German communist/anti-communist politician (SPD)
1910 - Irene Hervey, LA California, actress (Aunt Meg-Honey West)
1910 - John Francis Boyd, journalist
1913 - Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, US, sci-fi author (Space Lords)
1913 - Cordwainer Smith, American writer (d. 1966)
1914 - Ahti Sonninen, composer
1915 - Colin Purdie Kelly, US, 1st US air hero (during WW II)
1915 - George Ivan Smith, diplomat
1916 - Gough Whitlam, (ALP) Australia, PM (1972-75)
1916 - Howard Brubeck, composer
1916 - Reg Varney, English actor
1920 - Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (d. 1985)
1921 - Ilse Werner, Dutch-born actress
1922 - Gene Evans, Hollbrook Az, actor (My Friend Flicka, Matt Helm, Alamo)
1924 - Claus Bremer, writer
1924 - César Lattes, Brazilian physicist (d. 2005)
1924 - Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1971)
1925 - Mattiwilda Dobbs, Atlanta, Ga, soprano
1925 - Nicolai Gedda, Stockholm, Sweden, opera tenor (Opera Two to Six)
1926 - Patrick Wymark, Cleethorpes England, actor (Skull, Tomb of Ligeia)
1926 - Ralph D Abernathy, US, president (SCLC)
1926 - Rodolfo Arizaga, composer
1926 - Frederick Buechner, American author
1927 - Herbert Blomstedt, Springfield Mass, conductor (Oslo Phil 1954-61)
1928 - Nic Jonk, sculptor/painter (Jonas & the Whale)
1928 - Robert Washburn, composer
1929 - David Kelly, Dublin, actor (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fawlty Towers), (d. 2012)
1929 - Hermann Prey, German baritone (d. 1998)
1930 - Gregory C Bell, Terre Haute Ind, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1956)
1930 - John Alabaster, cricketer (NZ most prolific leg-spinner with 49 wkts)
1930 - Harold Bloom, American literary critic
1931 - Hans Klein, politician
1931 - Herman de Vries, Dutch sculptor
1931 - Tab Hunter, actor (Damn Yankees, Lust in the Dust, Battle Cry)
1931 - Thurston Harris, Indianapolis, vocalist (Little Bitty Pretty One)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 10 of 10

1895 - Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan, and accused spy Mata Hari (18) weds Dutch colonial army Captain Rudolph MacLeod in Amsterdam
1937 - Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas (22) marries dancer Caitlin McNamara (22) in Penzance, Cornwall
1955 - "Gone with the Wind" actor Clark Gable (54) weds former fashion model and actress Kay Spreckles
1976 - Singer Andy Gibb (18) weds Kim Reeder in Australia
2003 - "The Sopranos" actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler (22) weds her manager A.J. Discala at Brooklyn Botanical Garden in New York
2009 - "Step Up" actor Channing Tatum (32) weds actress Jenna Dewan (31) at Church Estate Vineyards in Malibu, California
2009 - "Rushmore" actor Jason Schwartzman (30) weds fashion designer Brady Cunningham in San Fernando Valley
2009 - WWE star John Cena (32) weds Liz Huberdeau in Boston, Massachusetts
2009 - Actor and film director Robert Redford (71) weds artist Sibylle Szaggars (51) at the luxurious Louis C. Jacob Hotel in Hamburg, Germany
2010 - Former "Las Vegas" actress Vanessa Marcil (42) weds "CSI: NY" actor Corey Feldman (39) in New York City

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 115

155 - Pius I, bishop of Rome (approx 140-155)/saint/martyr, dies
472 - Anthemius, Emperor of the Western Roman Empire
937 - King Rudolph II of Burgundy
969 - Olga of Kiev
1174 - Amalrik I, [Morri], French King of Jerusalem, dies
1183 - Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria
1302 - Jacques de Châtillon, count of Saint-Pol/gov of Flaanders, dies
1302 - Pierre Flote, French 1st legist/chancellor of king Philip IV, dies
1302 - Robert II of Artois, French soldier (b. 1250)
1382 - Nicholas van Oresme, French philosopher/bishop of Lisieux, dies at 62
1535 - Joachim I Nestor, ruler (Brandenburg), dies at 51
1540 - Jan Szapolyai, anti-king of Hungarian, dies
1553 - Mauritius, duke/monarch of Saksen (1547-53), dies of injuries at 32
1581 - Peder Skram, Danish senator and naval hero
1593 - Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1st surrealist painter, dies (birth date unkn)
1649 - Margaret Coventry, 1st English earl of Shaftesbury, dies
1667 - John Fox, Amsterdam writer, buried
1679 - William Chamberlayne, English poet (b. 1619)
1686 - Michel Anguier, French sculptor, dies at 75
1688 - King Narai of Siam (b. 1629)
1690 - Friedrich H duke van Schomberg, marshal, dies in battle at 75
1766 - Elizabeth Farnese, wife of Philip V of Spain (b. 1692)
1768 - Jose Melchior de Nebra Blascu, composer, dies at 66
1774 - Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Irish-born New York pioneer
1775 - Simon Boerum, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1781 - Adolph Carl Kunzen, composer, dies at 60
1797 - Ienăchiţă Văcărescu, Wallachian writer (b. 1740)
1806 - James Smith, Irish/US attorney/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 87
1825 - Thomas P. Grosvenor, American Revolutionary War soldier (b. 1744)
1826 - Carl Bernhard Wessely, composer, dies at 57
1844 - Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (b. 1800)
1847 - Joachim G le Sage at Trousers, RC foreman/publicist, dies at 71
1874 - Xavier FMG earl Merode, Belgium pontifical defense minister, dies at 54
1876 - Ottho G Heldring, vicar (H-gestichten), dies at 72
1882 - Eugene L Simonis, Belgian sculptor, dies on 72nd birthday
1889 - Gyula Reviczky, Hungarian author/poet, dies at 34
1896 - Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist/historian (Olympia), dies at 81
1898 - Charles Chanoine, French lt/mass murderer in Senegal, dies
1909 - Simon Newcomb, celestial mechanics authority (Stars), dies at 74
1914 - Julius Rodenberg, [Levy], German writer (Die Deutsche Rundschau), dies
1916 - Rik Wouters, Belgian painter/sculptor (Doll Virgin), dies
1921 - Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist, dies at 75
Archaelogist Gertrude Bell (1926) 1926 - Gertrude Bell, British archaeologist, dies at 57
1929 - Billy Mosforth, English footballer (b. 1857)
1936 - James Murray, American actor (b. 1901)
1937 - George Gershwin, composer (American in Paris), dies at 38
1942 - Simon de la Bella, Dutch president (NVV), dies in Dachau
1944 - Wolfgang Redlich, German major/pilot, dies in battle
1948 - Gerhard Kittel, German anti-semite theologist, dies
1948 - King Baggot, actor (Tish, San Francisco), dies at 68
1950 - Timotei Popovici, composer, dies at 79
1957 - Aga Khan III,Pakistani 48th Shia Iman, dies at 79
1958 - Karel Wellens, Flemish painter, dies at 69
1959 - C W L Parker, cricketer (3,776 1st-class wickets, 2nd best ever), dies
1964 - Maurice Thorez, sec-general French communist party, dies at 64
1965 - Ray Collins, actor (Halls of Ivy, Perry Mason), dies at 75
1966 - Delmore Schwartz, US poet/critic (Shenandoah), dies at 52
48th Shia Iman Aga Khan III (1957) 1967 - Guy Favreau, French Canadian lawyer, politician and judge (b. 1917)
1971 - Carleton Young, actor (Court of Last Resorts), dies at 64
1971 - John W Campbell, US, sci-fi writer (Space Beyond), dies at 61
1971 - Pedro Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (b. 1940)
1973 - Alexander Vasilyevich Mosolov, Russian composer (Zavod), dies at 72
1973 - Isabel Randolph, actress (Mrs Nester-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 83
1973 - Robert Ryan, US actor (Dirty Dozens, Longest Day), dies at 63
1974 - Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1891)
1975 - Kurt Pinthus, writer, dies at 89
1979 - Claude Wagner, French Canadian judge and politician (b. 1925)
1980 - Boleslaw Woytowicz, composer, dies at 80
1980 - Peggy Knudson, actress (April-So This is Hollywood), dies at 57
1983 - Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian writer (b. 1915)
1984 - Karel Mengelberg, composer, dies at 81
1987 - Thomas F Waddell, founder (Gay Olympics), dies of AIDS at 50
1987 - Avi Ran, Israeli footballer (b. 1963)
1987 - Yaakov Yitzchak Ruderman, American Rosh Yeshiva (b. 1901)
1989 - Laurence Olivier, acting great (Hamlet), dies at 82
1990 - Onno Molenkamp, Dutch actor (Ciske the Rat, Lifespan), dies at 67
1991 - Hitoshi Igarashi, Japanese interpreter (Satanic Verses), murdered
1991 - James McCallion, actor (PT 109, Big Combo), dies at 72
1992 - Annette Fischer, Danish chairman Amnesty Intl, dies
1992 - Antoon J Hubben, mayor of Maasbree/President KVM/Unie BLHP, dies at 73
1993 - Deng Yingchao, high ranking communist China official, dies at 88
1993 - Denis Tomlinson, South African cricket leg-spinner, dies
1993 - Henri van Soede, sub commandant (WW II), dies at about 83
1993 - Kelly Ahrendt, 1st death by rabies in NY since 1954, dies
1993 - Mario Bauza, Cubans/US jazz musician, dies at 82
1993 - Sergey Vozovikov, cosmonaut, dies during underwater test at 34
1994 - Alan David Melville, polymath, dies at 82
1994 - Bart Scheepens, actor/director, dies of AIDS at 50
1994 - Charles "Lefty" Edwards, saxophonist, dies at 67
1994 - Gary Kildall, creator of CP/M, dies at 52
1994 - James Topping, author of CP/M, dies at 52
1994 - Lex P Humphries, drummer, dies at 57
1994 - Wim Jurg, corrector/chairman (Werelddambond FMJD), dies at 49
1995 - John Cruickshank, French scholar, dies at 70
1996 - Louis Gottlieb, musician, dies at 72
1996 - Martin Corbett, gay activist, dies at 51
1999 - Helen Forrest, American singer (b. 1917)
2000 - Pedro Mir, Dominican poet (b. 1913)
2000 - Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1921)
2001 - Herman Brood, Dutch singer and artist (b. 1946)