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.
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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
- 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.
- 1776 –Captain James Cook begins his third voyage.
- 1804 –A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
- 1914 –Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major league baseball.
- 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.
- 1962 –First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
- 1987 –According to the United Nations, the world population crosses the 5,000,000,000 (5 billion) mark.
- 1990 –Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins.
Who were born on July 11?
- 1628 –Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)
- 1886 –Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (d. 1939)
- 1892 –Thomas Mitchell, American film actor and screenwriter (d. 1962)
- 1920 –Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (d. 1985)
- 1943 –Rolf Stommelen, German race car driver (d. 1983)
- 1951 –Ed Ott, American Baseball player
- 1952 –Bill Barber, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1953 –Angélica Aragón, Mexican actress
- 1979 –Raio Piiroja, Estonian footballer
- 1995 –Tyler Medeiros, Canadian singer
Who died on July 11?
- 969 –Olga of Kiev
- 1593 –Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian painter (b. 1527)
- 1766 –Elizabeth Farnese, wife of Philip V of Spain (b. 1692)
- 1806 –James Smith, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1719)
- 1994 –Savannah, American porn star (b. 1970)
- 2000 –Pedro Mir, Dominican poet (b. 1913)
- 2001 –Herman Brood, Dutch singer and artist (b. 1946)
- 2005 –Don Starr, American actor (b. 1917)
- 2007 –Glenda Adams, Australian author (b. 1939)
- 2007 –Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
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