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
- 1476 –Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances.
- 1740 –Pogrom: Jews are expelled from Little Russia.
- 1789 –Jacques Necker is dismissed as France’s Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille.
- 1798 –The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.
- 1889 –Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.
- 1895 –The Lumière brothers demonstrate film technology to scientists.
- 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.
- 1940 –World War II: Vichy France regime is formally established. Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1943 –Massacres of Poles in Volhynia.
- 1943 –World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily – German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.
- 1947 –The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
- 1960 –To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published.
- 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.
- 1983 –A Boeing 737 crashes into hilly terrain after a tail strike in Cuenca, Ecuador, claiming 119 lives.
- 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.
- 1991 –A Nationair DC-8 crashes during an emergency landing at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing 261.
- 2006 –209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
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