July 11

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on July 11. From 1900 until now. July 11 is under the sign of Cancer. Famous birthdays on this day include Evelyne Leclercq (1951), Giorgio Armani (1934) and Yul Brynner (1920). Several movies were released around July 11 over the years, such as Spirited Away in 2001 directed by Hayao Miyazaki, Kirk Wise and Devil's Island in 1926 directed by Frank O'Connor.
But much more happened on July 11 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Mongolia - Naadam Holiday
Feast Day of Saint Benedict (founder of the Benedictine Order)
United States: Free Slurpee at 7-Eleven (most locations do this - get a free 7.11oz Slurpee on 7-11).
Bonfire night in Northern Ireland, precursor to The_Twelfth
Feast Day of Saint Olga (first Russian Saint)
United Nations - World Population Day
Ireland - National Day of Commemoration held on nearest Sunday to this date (see Irish calendar).
China - China National Maritime Day
Flanders, region in Belgium (not a public holiday) - Flemish Day (1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs)
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Events

2019 Libyan Civil War (2014–present): Four people are killed and over 30 injured in a car bomb attack at a funeral for a senior Libyan National Army commander in Benghazi. (Reuters)
2018 War in Afghanistan: According to officials, an attack by the Taliban near Kunduz kills 29 Afghan Army soldiers. Air strikes kill dozens of militants elsewhere in the country. (Reuters)
2017 Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present): According to the Turkish Army, its overnight air strike in Dargeçit killed eleven militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party. (Reuters)
2016 War in Somalia: At least 10 Somali Armed Forces soldiers and 12 Al-Shabaab militants are killed in fighting near the town of Afgooye, Lower Shabelle. (Al Jazeera)
2015 Boko Haram insurgency: A suicide bomber attacks the Nigerian city of Maiduguri killing at least one person. (Reuters)A suicide bomber in a burqa kills 14 people in Chad's capital of N'Djamena. (Reuters) (Chron via AP)
2014 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine: Ukrainian forces in recently reclaimed city of Sloviansk discover documents that show pro-Russian insurgent leader Igor Strelkov handed down at least four death sentences under a Stalin-era law of 1941. (Kyiv Post)Twenty-three Ukrainian Army soldiers die as rebels fire a BM-21 Grad missile at an armoured brigade near the Russian border. (Reuters)
2013 Bomb and gun attacks across Iraq kill more than 30 people including members of the Iraqi security forces. (BBC)
2012 Mexican Drug War: The Mexican newspaper ''El Mañana'' from the northern city of Nuevo Laredo will stop reporting on Mexico's drug-related violence after a second grenade attack at its installations. (''Huffington Post'')
2011 Protesters loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in the 2011 Syrian uprising break into the United States embassy in Damascus and try to break into the French embassy. (''The Australian'')
2010 The DPJ-led ruling coalition loses its majority in the upper house of the Diet of Japan. (BBC News) (Ahasi)
2009 The President of Peru Alan García names Javier Velásquez as the Prime Minister of Peru. (AFP via Google News)
2008 Crude oil on the New York Mercantile Exchange hits a record high of US$147.27 per barrel.
2007 The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons confirmed the destruction of the entire chemical weapons stockpile in Albania. (AP)
2006 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
2005 The Indonesian government asks TV stations to close down between 1 am and 5 am daily for six months in order to save energy after recent increases in the price of crude oil. Broadcasts of immensely-popular live European football matches which happen in the middle of the Indonesian night, are excluded from the shutdown. (BBC)
2004 Ashraf Jehangir Qazi is nominated by Kofi Annan to be the UN new envoy to Iraq. (Rediff News)
2003 Zahra Kazemi, an Iranian-born Canadian journalist, dies of injuries received from a beating while in Iranian custody. She had been arrested on June 23 while taking photographs outside an Iranian prison. Her death sparks a furor between Canada and Iran over the disposition of her body and the punishment of her killers, and among international free speech groups concerned with freedom of the press in Iran.
2002 A group of Moroccan soldiers set up base on the Perejil Island.
1999 India recaptures Kargil as Pakistan pulls out its troops and militants after international condemnation. India claims victory in the two-month conflict.
1996 Legislation is introduced in Congress to propose the 50 States Coin Program.
1995 66th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-2 at Ballpark at Arlington, Texas
1994 Gary Kildall dies in a bar brawl, at age 52. He was an American microcomputer industry visionary and pioneer, most well-known for creating the CP/M operating system.
1993 14th US Seniors Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus
1992 Presidential Candidate Ross Perot at NAACP speech calls them you people
1991 Calumet Farm, home to 8 Kentucky Derby winners, files bankruptcy
1990 New York City police arrest "Dartman" (stabbed over 50 women with darts).
1989 60th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim All star MVP: Bo Jackson (Kansas City Royals)
1988 Mike Tyson hires Donald Trump as an advisor
1987 Orioles Cal Ripkin becomes 1st to manage 2 sons, as Billy joins Cal
1986 Mary Beth Whitehead christens surrogate Baby M, Sara
1985 Refurbished Columbia moves overland from Palmdale to Dryden
1984 55th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-1 at Candlestick Park, San Francisco
1983 Lorraine Elizabeth Downes, 19, of New Zealand, crowned 32nd Miss Universe
1982 7 Brides for 7 Brothers closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 5 performances
1981 Neva Rockefeller is 1st woman ordered to pay her husband alimony
1980 American hostage Richard I Queen freed by Iran
1979 US Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia and disintegrates
1978 49th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-3 at San Diego Stadium
1977 US Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
1976 1st US football club in Austria forms (FAAFC-1st Austrian American)
1975 Chinese archeologists discover a 3-acre burial site with 6,000 clay statues of warriors dating as early as 221 BC
1974 US House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry.
1973 Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris, 122 killed
1972 The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.
1971 Chilean parliament nationalizes US copper mines
1970 The first tunnel under the Pyrenees links the towns of Aragnouet (France) and Bielsa (Spain).
1969 Rolling Stones release Honky Tonk Woman
1968 Earl Weaver replaces Hank Bauer as manager of Orioles
1967 38th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-1 in 15 at Anaheim Stadium, California
1966 The 1966 FIFA World Cup begins in England.
1965 Israeli Mapai-party nominates David Ben-Gurion
1963 South-African ANC Walter Sisulu / Andrew Mlangeni / Govan Mbeki arrested
1962 1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I)
1961 30th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 in 10 at Candlestick Park, San Francisco
1960 28th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, Kansas City
1958 Count Michael Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde, direct descendant of Samuel Aba, King of Hungary, at the age of 60 is pistol-whipped and murdered over a few hectares of land by Czechoslovak Communists during the collectivization process at his residence in Olcsvar, Slovakia.
1955 Congress authorizes all US currency to say In God We Trust
1954 First White Citizens Council organizes in Indianola, Mississippi.
1952 Gen Eisenhower nominated as Republican presidential candidate
1950 17th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 in 14 at Comiskey Park, Chicago Ted Williams breaks his elbow; 1st extra inning All Star Game
1949 ''Pamir'' is the last ''commercial'' sailing ship to round Cape Horn under sail alone.
1948 1st air bombing of Jerusalem
1947 The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
1946 Kingman Douglass, ends term as Deputy Director of CIA
1944 12th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh
1943 Counter attack by Hermann Goering Armour division in Sicily
1941 German troops attack Dnjepr
1940 British and German dogfight above Lyme Bay
1939 7th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Yankee Stadium, New York New York Yankee / AL maanager Joe McCarthy starts 6 Yankees
1936 Triborough Bridge linking Manhattan, Bronx and Queens opens.
1934 FDR became 1st President to travel through Panama Canal
1931 New York Giants beat Philadelphia Phillies 23-8.
1930 Bradman scores 309 in a day vs. England at Leeds, goes on to 334
1929 In Russia, a secret decree of the Sovnarkom creates the backbone of the Gulag system.
1927 An earthquake strikes Palestine, killing around 300 people. The effects are especially severe in Nablus, but damage and fatalities are also reported in many areas of Palestine and Trans-Jordan such as Amman, Salt, Jordan, and Lydda.
1925 Queen Wilhelmina names H Colijn head of government
1924 Moslem-Hindu rebellion in Delhi
1923 Harry Frazee, sells Red Sox to Ohio businessmen for $1M
1922 The Hollywood Bowl opens.
1921 Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day).
1920 In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany
1919 Dutch 2nd chamber approves 8-hour day / No Sunday work
1916 Congress passes Federal Aid Road Act
1914 Babe Ruth debuts as a pitcher for Boston Red Sox, he beats Cleveland 4-3
1906 The Gillette-Brown murder inspires Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
1905 Niagara Movement founded by WEB Dubois
1902 British Premier Lord Salisbury resigns
1900 Boer general De la Rey captures Scots Greys and Lincolns
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