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Events on the 11th of July in history

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11 Jul 0472 After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in the St. Peter's Basilica and put to death.
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11 Jul 0911 Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy.
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11 Jul 1174 Baldwin IV, 13, becomes King of Jerusalem, with Raymond III, Count of Tripoli as regent and William of Tyre as chancellor.
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11 Jul 1244 Chwarizneense Turken defeats Jerusalem
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11 Jul 1302 Battle of Kortrijk Belgium (France vs. Flanders)
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11 Jul 1302 Guldensporen battle of Belgium
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11 Jul 1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch) – a coalition around the Flemish cities defeats the king of France's royal army.
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11 Jul 1346 Charles IV, Count of Luxembourg and King of Bohemia, is elected King of the Romans.
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11 Jul 1347 Bohemia heir to the throne elected German anti-king Charles IV
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11 Jul 1376 English "Good Parliament" meets
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11 Jul 1405 Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.
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11 Jul 1423 Arnold van Egmont becomes Duke of Gelre
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11 Jul 1476 Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances.
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11 Jul 1525 Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius at The Hague
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11 Jul 1533 Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
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11 Jul 1576 Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.
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11 Jul 1588 French King Henri III accept demands of Catholic League
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11 Jul 1616 Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
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11 Jul 1635 Armies of Savoye / Mantua / Parma occupy Milan
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11 Jul 1673 Netherlands and Denmark signs defense treaty
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11 Jul 1690 Battle of Drogheda Boyne: Willem III (Netherlands-England) beat Jacobus II (Ireland)
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11 Jul 1708 Battle at Oudenaarde: Great Alliance beats France
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11 Jul 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.
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11 Jul 1740 Czarina Anne of Little Russia, expels Jews
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11 Jul 1740 Pogrom: Jews are expelled from Little Russia.
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11 Jul 1740 Jews are expelled from Little Russia by order of Czarina Anne
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11 Jul 1750 Halifax, Nova Scotia is almost completely destroyed by fire.
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11 Jul 1781 Thomas Hutchins designated Geographer of the US
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11 Jul 1789 Jacques Necker is dismissed as France's Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille.
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11 Jul 1792 Prussia army moves into French territory
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11 Jul 1796 The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.
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11 Jul 1798 US Marine Corps forms
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11 Jul 1798 The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.
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11 Jul 1798 US Marine Corps created by an act of Congress
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11 Jul 1801 French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons discovers his 1st comet
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11 Jul 1801 French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
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11 Jul 1804 A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
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11 Jul 1804 VP Aaron Burr kills Alex Hamilton in a pistol duel near Weehawken
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11 Jul 1812 US invades Canada (Detroit frontier)
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11 Jul 1818 Keats writes "In the Cottage Where Burns Was Born," "Lines Written
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11 Jul 1833 Noongar Australian aboriginal warrior Yagan, wanted for the murder of white colonists in Western Australia, is killed.
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11 Jul 1848 Edmund Hickly gets 1st known 10 wicket innings (Kent vs. England)
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11 Jul 1848 Waterloo railway station in London opens.
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11 Jul 1861 Battle of Laurel Mountain VA - General Morris forces retreat of rebels
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11 Jul 1861 Battle of Rich Mountain, VA - Rosecrans forces rebels to surrender
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11 Jul 1862 Lincoln appoints General Halleck general-in-chief
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11 Jul 1863 Japanese battle cruiser shoots at Dutch warship Medusa, kills 4
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11 Jul 1864 Confederate forces led by General J Early begin invasion of Washington DC
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11 Jul 1864 American Civil War: Battle of Fort Stevens; Confederate forces attempt to invade Washington, D.C.
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11 Jul 1868 J C Watson discovers asteroid #100 Hekate
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11 Jul 1882 British fleet bombs Alexandria
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11 Jul 1882 The British Mediterranean Fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the Anglo-Egyptian War.
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11 Jul 1888 Pennsylvania's Monongehela River rises 32' after 24 hour rainfall
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11 Jul 1889 Tijuana in Mexico becomes a city
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11 Jul 1889 Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.
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11 Jul 1892 US Patent Office says J W Swan, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp
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11 Jul 1893 The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
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11 Jul 1893 A revolution led by the liberal general and politician, José Santos Zelaya, takes over state power in Nicaragua.
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11 Jul 1895 Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology to scientists.
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11 Jul 1897 Solomon Andree leaves Spitsbergen by balloon towards North Pole
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11 Jul 1897 Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
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11 Jul 1900 Boer general De la Rey captures Scots Greys and Lincolns
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11 Jul 1901 L Carnera discovers asteroid #472 Roma
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11 Jul 1902 British Premier Lord Salisbury resigns
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11 Jul 1905 Niagara Movement founded by WEB Dubois
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11 Jul 1905 Black intellectuals & activists organize Niagara movement
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11 Jul 1906 Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
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11 Jul 1914 Babe Ruth debuts as a pitcher for Boston Red Sox, he beats Cleveland 4-3
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11 Jul 1914 Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball.
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11 Jul 1914 USS Nevada (BB-36) is launched.
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11 Jul 1916 Congress passes Federal Aid Road Act
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11 Jul 1916 1st federal grant-in-aid for state roads enacted
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11 Jul 1918 M Wolf discovers asteroid #895 Helio
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11 Jul 1919 Dutch 2nd chamber approves 8-hour day / No Sunday work
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11 Jul 1919 The eight-hour day and free Sunday become law for workers in the Netherlands.
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11 Jul 1920 In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany.
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11 Jul 1921 A truce in the Irish War of Independence comes into effect.
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11 Jul 1921 The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army and establishes the Mongolian People's Republic.
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11 Jul 1921 Former President of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person ever to hold both offices.
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11 Jul 1921 Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day)
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11 Jul 1922 The Hollywood Bowl opens.
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11 Jul 1923 Harry Frazee, sells Red Sox to Ohio businessmen for $1M
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11 Jul 1924 Moslem-Hindu rebellion in Delhi
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11 Jul 1924 Eric Liddell won the gold medal in 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, after refusing to run in the heats for 100m, his favoured distance, on the Sunday
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11 Jul 1925 Queen Wilhelmina names H Colijn head of government
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11 Jul 1930 Bradman scores 309 in a day vs. England at Leeds, goes on to 334
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11 Jul 1930 Australian cricketer Donald Bradman scores a world record 309 runs in one day, on his way to the highest individual Test innings of 334, during a Test match against England.
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11 Jul 1931 New York Giants beat Phillies 23-8
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11 Jul 1934 FDR became 1st President to travel through Panama Canal
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11 Jul 1934 Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off.
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11 Jul 1936 The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
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11 Jul 1936 Triborough Bridge linking Manhattan, Bronx & Queens opens
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11 Jul 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
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11 Jul 1939 Yanks host 7th All Star Game, McCarthy starts 6 Yanks, AL wins 3-1
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11 Jul 1940 British and German dogfight above Lyme Bay
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11 Jul 1940 World War II: Vichy France regime is formally established. Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France.
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11 Jul 1941 German troops attack Dnjepr
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11 Jul 1943 Counter attack by Hermann Goering Armour division in Sicily
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11 Jul 1943 US 45th Division occupies airport Comiso Sicily
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11 Jul 1943 US 82nd Airborne division shot at, by "friendly fire" in Sicily
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11 Jul 1943 Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Volhynia) peak.
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11 Jul 1943 World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily – German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.
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11 Jul 1944 12th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh
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11 Jul 1944 FDR says he would run for a 4th term
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11 Jul 1944 Bill Boggs, Phila, TV host/producer (Midday, Morton Downey Jr Show)
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11 Jul 1944 NL beats AL 7-1 in 12th All Star Game (Pitts' Forbes Field)
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11 Jul 1946 Kingman Douglass, ends term as Deputy Director of CIA
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11 Jul 1947 The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
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11 Jul 1948 1st air bombing of Jerusalem
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11 Jul 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
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11 Jul 1950 Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank.
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11 Jul 1950 NL beats AL 4-3 (14 inn) in 17th All Star Game (Comiskey Park Chic)
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11 Jul 1952 Gen Eisenhower nominated as Republican presidential candidate
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11 Jul 1954 1st White Citizens Council organizes in Indianola, Mississippi
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11 Jul 1955 Congress authorizes all US currency to say "In God We Trust"
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11 Jul 1955 New USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colo with 300 cadets
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11 Jul 1957 Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismai'li worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III.
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11 Jul 1960 28th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, Kansas City
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11 Jul 1960 Czechoslovakia adopts Constitution
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11 Jul 1960 France legislates for the independence of Dahomey (later Benin), Upper Volta (later Burkina) and Niger.
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11 Jul 1960 Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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11 Jul 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, in the United States.
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11 Jul 1960 Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta & Niger declare independence
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11 Jul 1960 NL beats AL 5-3 in 28th All Star Game (Municipal Stadium, KC)
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11 Jul 1961 30th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 in 10 at Candlestick Park, San Francisco
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11 Jul 1961 Gene Kiniski beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
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11 Jul 1962 Brothers Hank and Tommie Aaron homer in same inning
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11 Jul 1962 First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
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11 Jul 1962 Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.
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11 Jul 1962 1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I)
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11 Jul 1962 Cosmonaut Micolaev set then record longest space flight - 4 days
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11 Jul 1962 Fred Baldasare is 1st to swim English Channel underwater (scuba)
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11 Jul 1963 South-African ANC Walter Sisulu / Andrew Mlangeni / Govan Mbeki arrested
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11 Jul 1965 Israeli Mapai-party nominates David Ben-Gurion
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11 Jul 1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Midwest Golf Open
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11 Jul 1967 38th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-1 in 15 at Anaheim Stadium, California
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11 Jul 1967 All star MVP: Tony Perez (Cin Reds)
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11 Jul 1967 Kenny Rogers forms 1st Edition
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11 Jul 1967 Longest All Star Game, NL beats AL 2-1 (15 inn) (Anaheim Stadium, Cal)
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11 Jul 1968 Earl Weaver replaces Hank Bauer as manager of Orioles
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11 Jul 1969 Rolling Stones release "Honky Tonk Woman"
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11 Jul 1969 David Bowie releases "Space Oddity"
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11 Jul 1969 Rolling Stones release "Honky Tonk Woman"
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11 Jul 1971 Chilean parliament nationalizes US copper mines
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11 Jul 1971 Jane Blalock wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
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11 Jul 1971 Copper mines in Chile are nationalized.
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11 Jul 1971 Phillies Deron Johnson 3 HRs caps his 4 in a row
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11 Jul 1972 The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.
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11 Jul 1973 Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris, 122 killed
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11 Jul 1973 Varig Flight 820 crashes near Paris, France on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 of the 134 on board. In response, the FAA bans smoking on flights.
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11 Jul 1974 House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry
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11 Jul 1974 World Football League plays 1st games
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11 Jul 1975 Chinese archeologists discover a 3-acre burial site with 6,000 clay statues of warriors dating as early as 221 BC
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11 Jul 1975 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2489 Suvorov
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11 Jul 1976 1st US football club in Austria forms (FAAFC-1st Austrian American)
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11 Jul 1976 In pre-game promo at Atlanta County Stadium, 34 couples wed at home plate followed by Championship Wrestling "Headlocks & Wedlocks"
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11 Jul 1977 Martin Luther King, Jr. is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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11 Jul 1977 Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Rev Martin Luther King Jr
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11 Jul 1978 49th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-3 at San Diego Stadium
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11 Jul 1978 All star MVP: Steve Garvey (LA Dodgers)
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11 Jul 1978 Auto with liquid gas crashes and explodes in Spain, 160 killed
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11 Jul 1978 Los Alfaques disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.
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11 Jul 1978 NL beats AL 7-3 in 49th All Star Game (San Diego Stadium)
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11 Jul 1979 America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
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11 Jul 1979 US Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia & disintegrates
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11 Jul 1980 American hostage Richard I Queen freed by Iran
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11 Jul 1981 Neva Rockefeller is 1st woman ordered to pay her husband alimony
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11 Jul 1981 Sebastian Coe of UK sets record for 1000 m, 2:12.18
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11 Jul 1982 "7 Brides for 7 Brothers" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 5 performances
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11 Jul 1982 3rd US Seniors Golf Open: Miller Barber
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11 Jul 1982 Hollis Stacy wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic
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11 Jul 1982 Italy beats West Germany 3-1 for soccer's 12th World Cup in Madrid
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11 Jul 1983 Lorraine Elizabeth Downes, 19, of New Zealand, crowned 32nd Miss Universe
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11 Jul 1983 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3485 Barucci
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11 Jul 1984 All star MVP: Gary Carter (Montreal Expos)
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11 Jul 1984 Government orders air bags or seat belts would be required in cars by 1989
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11 Jul 1984 Lucas Mangope re-elected President of Bophuthatswana
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11 Jul 1984 England's MusicBox begins satellite transmission to Europe
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11 Jul 1984 NL beats AL 3-1 in 55th All Star Game (Candlestick Park SF)
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11 Jul 1985 Astros' Nolan Ryan, 1st to strike out 4000 (Mets' Danny Heep)
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11 Jul 1985 Refurbished Columbia moves overland from Palmdale to Dryden
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11 Jul 1986 Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway runs 10,000 m in world record 30:13.74
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11 Jul 1986 Maricica Puica of Romania runs 2,000 m in 5:28.69 (record for women)
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11 Jul 1986 Mary Beth Whitehead christens surrogate Baby M, Sara
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11 Jul 1987 Orioles Cal Ripkin becomes 1st to manage 2 sons, as Billy joins Cal
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11 Jul 1987 Heart's "Alone," single goes #1 for 3 weeks
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11 Jul 1988 Mike Tyson hires Donald Trump as an advisor
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11 Jul 1989 60th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim All star MVP: Bo Jackson (Kansas City Royals)
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11 Jul 1989 AL beats NL 5-3, (3rd of last 4 All Star Games) in California
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11 Jul 1989 President Ronald Reagan sportscasts the All Star Game
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11 Jul 1990 New York City police arrest "Dartman" (stabbed over 50 women with darts)
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11 Jul 1990 Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins.
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11 Jul 1990 NYC police arrest "Dartman" (stabbed over 50 women with darts)
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11 Jul 1991 Calumet Farm, home to 8 Kentucky Derby winners, files bankruptcy
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11 Jul 1991 Nigerian DC-8 crashes near Djeddah, 261 die
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11 Jul 1991 Total solar eclipse is seen in Hawaii
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11 Jul 1992 Presidential Candidate Ross Perot at NAACP speech calls them "you people"
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11 Jul 1993 14th US Seniors Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus
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11 Jul 1993 Nancy Lopez wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic
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11 Jul 1995 66th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-2 at Ballpark at Arlington, Texas
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11 Jul 1995 All star MVP: Jeff Conine (Florida Marlins)
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11 Jul 1995 The Srebrenica massacre is carried out.
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11 Jul 2006 Mumbai train bombings: Two hundred nine people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
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11 Jul 2012 Astronomers announce the discovery of Styx, the fifth moon of Pluto.
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