July 11th in History
July 11th in History
- 1533: King Henry VIII of England is excommunicated.
- 1804: American VP Aaron Burr kills US treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton during a duel.
- 1895: First motion picture is shown in Paris by the Lumiere brothers.
- 1960: Ivory Coast, Niger, Upper Volta and Dahomey all become independent
- 1975: Army of life-size terracotta soldiers discovered in China
- 1979: Debris from the US Skylab space station fall on Australia
- 1995: U.S. establishes diplomatic relations with Vietnam
July 11th birthdays
- 1274: Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland
- 1656: First Quaker colonists land at Boston
- 1754: Thomas Bowdler, British censor.
- 1767: John Quincy Adams, Former (6th) American President
- 1899: E. B. White, American writer
