July 11

Sunday 11, 2004:

CIA Director George Tenet leaves his position at the CIA

Tuesday 11, 1995:

A Cubana de Aviacion Antonov AN-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44 people.

Thursday 11, 1991:

Total solar eclipse in Hawaii.

Saturday 11, 1987:

According to the United Nations, the world population crosses the 5,000,000,000 mark.

Monday 11, 1983:

A Boeing 727 crashes into hilly terrain after a tail strike in Cuenca, Ecuador, claiming 119 lives.

Sunday 11, 1982:

Football World Cup 1982: Italy defeats West Germany 3–1 at Santiago Bernabéu stadium, Spain to win the Football World Cup.

Wednesday 11, 1979:

The space station Skylab returns to Earth.

Monday 11, 1977:

Martin Luther King is posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom.

Friday 11, 1975:

Chinese archeologists discover a large burial site with 6,000 clay statutes of warriors from 221 BC.

Wednesday 11, 1973:

A Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport, killing 122 people.

Sunday 11, 1971:

Copper mines in Chile nationalised.

Wednesday 11, 1962:

First transatlantic satellite television transmission.

Monday 11, 1960:

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published.

Thursday 11, 1957:

Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherites the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismaili worlwide, after the passing away of Sir Sultam Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III

Monday 11, 1955:

The phrase In God We Trust is added to all US currency.

Tuesday 11, 1944:

Franklin D. Roosevelt says he will run for a fourth term as President of the United States.

Sunday 11, 1943:

German troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.

Thursday 11, 1940:

World War II: Vichy France regime formally established. Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France.

Saturday 11, 1936:

Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.

Monday 11, 1921:

Mongolia becomes independent (from China).

Friday 11, 1919:

Eight-hour working day and free Sunday made into law in the Netherlands.

Saturday 11, 1914:

Babe Ruth debuts in Major league baseball.

Sunday 11, 1897:

Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to try to reach the North pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.

Thursday 11, 1895:

The brothers Lumière show film for scientists.

Tuesday 11, 1893:

The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.

Monday 11, 1864:

Confederate forces attempt an invasion of Washington, D.C.

Monday 11, 1859:

A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is published.

Tuesday 11, 1848:

The Waterloo railway station in London opens.

Thursday 11, 1811:

Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoir about molecular content of gases.

Wednesday 11, 1804:

Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr kills Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel.

Wednesday 11, 1798:

The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.

Monday 11, 1796:

The U.S. takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.

Thursday 11, 1776:

Captain James Cook begins third voyage.

Saturday 11, 1750:

Halifax, Nova Scotia almost completely destroyed by fire.

Monday 11, 1740:

Pogrom: Jews are expelled from Little Russia.

Monday 11, 1735:

Mathematical calculations suggest 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.

Tuesday 11, 1533:

King Henry VIII of England is excommunicated.

Monday 11, 1616:

Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.

Sunday 11, 1576:

Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.

Thursday 11, 1405:

Chinese fleet commander Zheng He set sail to explore the world for the first time.

Monday 11, 1346:

Charles IV of Luxembourg elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

Tuesday 11, 1302:

the Flemish cities beat the king of France.

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