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, 477,960 hours 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.
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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 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
- 911 –Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy.
- 1616 –Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
- 1740 –Pogrom: Jews are expelled from Little Russia.
- 1897 –Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
- 1921 –Former U.S. President William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person to ever be both President and Chief Justice.
- 1921 –The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army and establishes the Mongolian People’s Republic.
- 1943 –Massacres of Poles in Volhynia.
- 1960 –Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 1972 –The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.
- 1987 –According to the United Nations, the world population crosses the 5,000,000,000 (5 billion) mark.
Who were born on July 11?
- 1851 –Millie and Christine McCoy, Conjoined twins (d. 1912)
- 1920 –Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (d. 1985)
- 1951 –Ed Ott, American Baseball player
- 1953 –Paul Weiland, English director, writer and producer
- 1959 –Dave Bennett, English footballer
- 1966 –Rod Strickland, American basketball player
- 1985 –Robert Adamson, American actor
- 1987 –Shigeaki Kato, Japanese idol singer (NEWS)
- 1989 –David Henrie, American actor
- 1989 –Liel Kolet, Israeli singer
Who died on July 11?
- 969 –Olga of Kiev
- 1535 –Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (b. 1484)
- 1581 –Peder Skram, Danish senator and naval hero
- 1844 –Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (b. 1800)
- 1905 –Muhammad Abduh, Egyptian jurist and islamic modernist (b. 1849)
- 1971 –John W. Campbell, American writer and editor (b. 1910)
- 1989 –Sir Laurence Olivier, acclaimed English stage and screen actor (b. 1907)
- 2005 –Jesús Iglesias, Argentine professional racing driver (b. 1922)
- 2007 –Glenda Adams, Australian author (b. 1939)
- 2007 –Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
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