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This day in history: 11 July

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Key facts

367 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 11 July.
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2021: Virgin Galactic launches its founder, Richard Branson, into space, the first company ever to do so.

Holidays and observances

China National Maritime Day (China)

Christian Feast Day: Benedict of Nursia

Christian Feast Day: Drostan

Christian Feast Day: July 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian Feast Day: Kjeld

Christian Feast Day: Marciana of Toledo

Christian Feast Day: Olga of Kiev

Christian Feast Day: Pope Pius I

Christian Feast Day: Thomas Sprott

Day of the Bandoneón (Argentina)

Day of the Flemish Community (Flemish Community of Belgium)

Eleventh Night (Northern Ireland)

Events

2021Virgin Galactic launches its founder, Richard Branson, into space, the first company ever to do so.

2015Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escapes from the maximum security Altiplano prison in Mexico, his second escape.

2011Ninety-eight containers of explosives self-detonate killing 13 people in Zygi, Cyprus.

2010In Johannesburg, Spain defeat the Netherlands 1–0 after extra time to win their first FIFA World Cup title.

2010The Islamist militia group Al-Shabaab carries out multiple suicide bombings in Kampala, Uganda, killing 74 people and injuring 85 others.

2007The Siege of Lal Masjid in Islamabad, Pakistan, ends after the Pakistan Army storms the mosque which had been occupied by Islamist militants.

2006Mumbai train bombings: 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.

1995Yugoslav Wars: Srebrenica massacre begins, lasting until 22 July.

1991Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 crashes in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 261 passengers and crew on board.

1990Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec begins.

1983A TAME airline Boeing 737-200 crashes near Cuenca, Ecuador, killing all 119 passengers and crew on board.

1982Italy defeats West Germany 3–1 to win the FIFA World Cup.

1979America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.

1978Los Alfaques disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain, killing 216 tourists.

1977Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated in 1968, is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

1973Varig Flight 820 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 of the 134 on board. In response, the FAA bans smoking in airplane lavatories.

1972The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.

1971The nationalization of all large copper mines in Chile is completed.

1962First transatlantic satellite television transmission.

1962Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.

1960Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

1960France legislates for the independence of Dahomey (later Benin), Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso) and Niger.

1960To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, in the United States.

1957Prince 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.

1950Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank.

1947The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.

1943Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Volhynia) peak.

1943World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily: German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.

1941The Northern Rhodesian Labour Party holds its first congress in Nkana.

1940World War II: Vichy France regime is formally established. Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of the French State.

1936The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.

1934Engelbert 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.

1924Eric Liddell wins the gold medal in 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, after refusing to run in the heats for 100m, his favoured distance, on a Sunday.

1922The Hollywood Bowl opens.

1921A truce in the Irish War of Independence comes into effect.

1921Former 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.

1921The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army and establishes the Mongolian People's Republic.

1920In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany.

1919The eight-hour day and free Sunday become law for workers in the Netherlands.

1914Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball.

Born on this day

2002Amad Diallo, Ivorian footballer

1999Braydon Trindall, Australian rugby league player

1997Ryan Rolison, American baseball player

1996Alessia Cara, Canadian singer-songwriter

1995Joey Bosa, American football player

1995Tyler Medeiros, Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer

1994Anthony Milford, Australian rugby league player

1994Bartłomiej Kalinkowski, Polish footballer

1994Lucas Ocampos, Argentine footballer

1994Nina Nesbitt, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist

1993Heini Salonen, Finnish tennis player

1993Rebecca Bross, American gymnast

1993Ryan Strome, Canadian ice hockey player

1993Vincent Trocheck, American ice hockey player

1992Mohamed Elneny, Egyptian footballer

1990Adam Jezierski, Polish-Spanish actor and singer

1990Caroline Wozniacki, Danish tennis player

1990Connor Paolo, American actor

1990Mona Barthel, German tennis player

1989Shimanoumi Koyo, Japanese sumo wrestler

1989Tobias Sana, Swedish footballer

1989Travis Waddell, Australian rugby league player

1988Étienne Capoue, French footballer

1988Natalie La Rose, Dutch singer, songwriter and dancer

1987Shigeaki Kato, Japanese singer

1986Raúl García, Spanish footballer

1986Yoann Gourcuff, French footballer

1985Orestis Karnezis, Greek footballer

1985Robert Adamson, American actor, director, and producer

1984Jacoby Jones, American football player (died 2024)

1984Joe Pavelski, American ice hockey player

1984Morné Steyn, South African rugby player

1984Tanith Belbin, Canadian-American ice dancer

1984Yorman Bazardo, Venezuelan baseball player

1983Engin Baytar, German-Turkish footballer

1983Marie Serneholt, Swedish singer and dancer

1983Peter Cincotti, American singer-songwriter and pianist

1981Andre Johnson, American football player

1981Susana Barreiros, Venezuelan judge

1980Tyson Kidd, Canadian wrestler

Died on this day

2026Antonio Rattín, Argentine footballer and politician (born 1937)

2026Jayden Adams, South African soccer player (born 2001)

2026Ken Bates, English buisnessman and former owner of Chelsea F.C. and Leeds United F.C. (born 1931)

2026Lindsey Graham, American politician (born 1955)

2025Martin Cruz Smith, American author and screenwriter (born 1942)

2024Monte Kiffin, American football coach (born 1940)

2024Shelley Duvall, American actress (born 1949)

2024Stanley Tshabalala, South African soccer player and coach (born 1949)

2023Milan Kundera, Czech-French writer (born 1929)

2021Charlie Robinson, American actor (born 1945)

2021Renée Simonot, French actress (born 1911)

2020Frank Bolling, American baseball second baseman (born 1931)

2020Marc Angelucci, American attorney and men's rights activist, Vice-president of the National Coalition for Men (born 1968)

2017Jim Wong-Chu, Canadian poet (born 1949)

2015André Leysen, Belgian businessman (born 1927)

2015Giacomo Biffi, Italian cardinal (born 1928)

2015Satoru Iwata, Japanese game programmer and businessman (born 1959)

2014Bill McGill, American basketball player (born 1939)

2014Carin Mannheimer, Swedish author and screenwriter (born 1934)

2014Charlie Haden, American bassist and composer (born 1937)

2014John Seigenthaler, American journalist and academic (born 1927)

2014Randall Stout, American architect, designed the Taubman Museum of Art (born 1958)

2014Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-American drummer and producer (born 1949)

2013Egbert Brieskorn, German mathematician and academic (born 1936)

2013Emik Avakian, Iranian-American inventor (born 1923)

2013Eugene P. Wilkinson, American admiral (born 1918)

2009Arturo Gatti, Italian-Canadian boxer (born 1972)

2009Ji Xianlin, Chinese linguist and paleographer (born 1911)

2009Reg Fleming, Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1936)

2008Michael E. DeBakey, American surgeon and educator (born 1908)

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“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength.”

Marcus Aurelius

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