SomeFacts | July 11

On this day - July 11

813 — Byzantine emperor Michael I, under threat by conspiracies, ...

911 — Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles ...

1174 — Baldwin IV, 13, becomes King of Jerusalem, with Raymond III, ...

1302 — Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch): A ...

1346 — Charles IV, Count of Luxembourg and King of Bohemia, is ...

1405 — Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the ...

1410 — Ottoman Interregnum: Süleyman Çelebi defeats his brother Musa ...

1476 — Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances.

1576 — While exploring the North Atlantic Ocean in an attempt to find ...

1616 — Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.

1735 — Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that ...

1789 — Jacques Necker is dismissed as France's Finance Minister ...

1796 — The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great ...

1798 — The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had ...

1801 — French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet ...

1804 — A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States ...

1833 — Noongar Australian aboriginal warrior Yagan, wanted for the ...

1836 — The Fly-fisher's Entomology is published by Alfred ...

1848 — Waterloo railway station in London opens.

1864 — American Civil War: Battle of Fort Stevens; Confederate forces ...

1882 — The British Mediterranean Fleet begins the Bombardment of ...

1889 — Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.

1893 — A revolution led by the liberal general and politician José ...

1893 — The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kōkichi Mikimoto.

1897 — Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach ...

1899 — Fiat founded by Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, Italy.

1906 — Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United ...

1914 — The US Navy launches the USS Nevada (BB-36) as its first ...

1914 — Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball.

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

1920 — In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to ...

1921 — Former president of the United States William Howard Taft is ...

1921 — The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army and ...

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

1922 — The Hollywood Bowl opens.

1924 — Eric Liddell won the gold medal in 400m at the 1924 Paris ...

1934 — Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered ...

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

1940 — World War II: Vichy France regime is formally established. ...

1941 — The Northern Rhodesian Labour Party holds its first congress ...

1943 — World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily: German and Italian ...

1943 — Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the ...

1947 — The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.

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

1957 — Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of ...

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

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

1960 — France legislates for the independence of Dahomey (later ...

1962 — Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar ...

1962 — First transatlantic satellite television transmission.

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

1972 — The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between ...

1973 — Varig Flight 820 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly ...

1977 — Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated in 1968, is posthumously ...

1978 — Los Alfaques disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and ...

1979 — America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it ...

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

1983 — A TAME airline Boeing 737-200 crashes near Cuenca, Ecuador, ...

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

1991 — Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 crashes in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, ...

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

2006 — Mumbai train bombings: 209 people are killed in a series of ...

2010 — In Johannesburg, Spain defeat the Netherlands 1–0 after extra ...

2010 — The Islamist militia group Al-Shabaab carries out multiple ...

2011 — Ninety-eight containers of explosives self-detonate killing 13 ...

2015 — Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escapes from the maximum ...

2021 — Virgin Galactic launches its founder, Richard Branson, into ...