About July 11
July 11, 2025 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.
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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 221 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 11
- 472 –After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in the Old St. Peter’s Basilica and put to death.
- 1302 –Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch) – a coalition around the Flemish cities defeats the king of France’s royal army.
- 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.
- 1882 –The British Mediterranean fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
- 1889 –Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.
- 1893 –A revolution led by the liberal general and politician, José Santos Zelaya, takes over state power in Nicaragua.
- 1895 –The Lumière brothers demonstrate film technology to scientists.
- 1897 –Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
- 1906 –The Gillette-Brown murder inspires Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.
- 1922 –The Hollywood Bowl opens.
- 1940 –World War II: Vichy France regime is formally established. Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1947 –The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
- 1950 –Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank.
- 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.
- 1973 –Varig Flight 820 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 of the 134 on-board.
- 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.
- 2011 –Neptune completes its first orbit since its discovery on September 23, 1846.
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