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 192nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 173 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 28, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,752,192,000 seconds 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 ‘hectaenneacontadigon’ day.
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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 221 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 4,585 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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July 11 Historical Events
- 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.
- 1789 –Jacques Necker is dismissed as France’s Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille.
- 1796 –The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.
- 1895 –The Lumière brothers demonstrate film technology to scientists.
- 1919 –The eight-hour working day and free Sunday become law in the Netherlands.
- 1920 –In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany
- 1978 –Los Alfaques Disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.
- 1979 –America’s first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
- 1983 –A Boeing 737 crashes into hilly terrain after a tail strike in Cuenca, Ecuador, claiming 119 lives.
- 1995 –A Cubana de Aviación Antonov An-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44 people.
Who were born on July 11?
- 1910 –Irene Hervey, American actress (d. 1998)
- 1949 –Liona Boyd, English-born musician
- 1957 –Peter Murphy, British musician (Bauhaus)
- 1964 –Craig Charles, English actor
- 1975 –Riona Hazuki, Japanese actress
- 1975 –Rubén Baraja, Spanish footballer
- 1984 –Hitomi Hyuga, Japanese actress
- 1984 –Rachael Taylor, Australian actress
- 1985 –Aki Maeda, Japanese actress
- 1985 –Robert Adamson, American actor
Who died on July 11?
- 1183 –Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1117)
- 1302 –Robert II of Artois, French soldier (b. 1250)
- 1797 –Ienăchiţă Văcărescu, Wallachian writer (b. 1740)
- 1844 –Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (b. 1800)
- 1937 –George Gershwin, American composer (b. 1898)
- 1987 –Yaakov Yitzchak Ruderman, American Rosh Yeshiva (b. 1901)
- 2007 –Alfonso López Michelsen, 32nd Colombian President (b. 1913)
- 2007 –Ed Mirvish, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1914)
- 2007 –Glenda Adams, Australian author (b. 1939)
- 2010 –Walter Hawkins, Gospel music singer (b. 1949)
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