What are the important events that happened on July 11? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
July 11: Facts & Myths About This Day
July 11 is the 193rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 173 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 28, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,677,600 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaenneacontatrigon’ day.
Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 202 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,220 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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July 11 Historical Events
- 1302 –Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch) – a coalition around the Flemish cities defeats the king of France’s royal army.
- 1476 –Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances.
- 1576 –Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.
- 1616 –Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
- 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.
- 1801 –French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons made his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovered another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
- 1833 –Noongar Australian aboriginal warrior Yagan, wanted for the murder of white colonists in Western Australia, is killed.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Battle of Fort Stevens; Confederate forces attempt to invade Washington, D.C.
- 1960 –Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 1983 –A Boeing 737 crashes into hilly terrain after a tail strike in Cuenca, Ecuador, claiming 119 lives.
Who were born on July 11?
- 1366 –Anne of Bohemia, consort of Richard II of England (d. 1394)
- 1903 –Rudolf Abel, Soviet intelligence officer (d. 1971)
- 1931 –Thurston Harris, American singer (d. 1990)
- 1946 –Cuthbert Johnson, Benedictine abbot.
- 1949 –Tom Emanski, American baseball instructionalist
- 1968 –Daniel MacMaster, Canadian singer (Bonham) (d. 2008)
- 1975 –Riona Hazuki, Japanese actress
- 1975 –Samer el Nahhal, Finnish musician (Lordi)
- 1976 –Eduardo Nájera, Mexican-born basketball player
- 1984 –Yorman Bazardo, Venezuelan baseball player
Who died on July 11?
- 1183 –Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1117)
- 1535 –Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (b. 1484)
- 1581 –Peder Skram, Danish senator and naval hero
- 1766 –Elizabeth Farnese, wife of Philip V of Spain (b. 1692)
- 1774 –Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Irish-born New York pioneer (b. 1715)
- 1994 –Savannah, American porn star (b. 1970)
- 2000 –Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1921)
- 2008 –Michael DeBakey, American surgeon and inventor (b. 1908)
- 2009 –Go Mi-Young, South Korean female mountaineer (b. 1967)
- 2009 –Ji Xianlin, Chinese linguist and paleographer (b. 1911)
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