About July 11
July 11, 2024 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.
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Cancer is the sun 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.
What Happened On July 11
- 1616 –Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
- 1750 –Halifax, Nova Scotia is almost completely destroyed by fire.
- 1789 –Jacques Necker is dismissed as France’s Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille.
- 1833 –Noongar Australian aboriginal warrior Yagan, wanted for the murder of white colonists in Western Australia, is killed.
- 1848 –Waterloo railway station in London opens.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Battle of Fort Stevens; Confederate forces attempt to invade Washington, D.C.
- 1882 –The British Mediterranean fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
- 1893 –The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
- 1906 –The Gillette-Brown murder inspires Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.
- 1914 –Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major league baseball.
- 1920 –In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany
- 1943 –World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily – German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.
- 1950 –Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank.
- 1957 –Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismaili worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III.
- 1960 –Independence of Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger.
- 1971 –Copper mines in Chile are nationalized.
- 1973 –Varig Flight 820 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 of the 134 on-board.
- 1995 –A Cubana de Aviación Antonov An-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44 people.
- 2006 –209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
- 2011 –Neptune completes its first orbit since its discovery on September 23, 1846.
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