Today in History
11 July
Aaron Burr
Charles Dickens
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| 1244 Chwarizneense Turken defeats Jerusalem | ||
| 1302 Battle of Kortrijk Belgium (France vs Flanders) | ||
| 1302 Guldensporen battle of Belgium |
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| 1347 Bohemia heir to the throne elected German anti-king Charles IV | ||
| 1376 English "Good Parliament" meets | ||
| 1423 Arnold van Egmont becomes duke of Gelre | ||
| 1525 Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius at The Hague | ||
| 1533 Pope Clement VII threatened English King Henry VIII with ex-communication if he did not resume his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. It was annulled in May 1533 by Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer. | ||
| 1588 French king Henri III accept demands of Catholic League | ||
| 1635 Armies of Savoye/Mantua/Parma occupy Milan | ||
| 1657 Frederik I, King of Prussia (1701-13) was born | ||
| 1673 Netherlands & Denmark signs defense treaty | ||
| 1690 Battle of Drogheda Boyne (Willem III (Neth-Engl) beat Jacobus II (Ire) | Aaron Burr |
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| 1708 Forces under England's Duke of Marlborough beat the French under Louis Vendome at the battle of Oudenarde in the war of Spanish Succession. | ||
| 1738 Albert-Kasimir, duke of Saxon/viceroy of Hungary/Netherlands was born | ||
| 1740 Czarina Anne of Little Russia, expels Jews | ||
| 1740 Jews are expelled from Little Russia by order of Czarina Anne | ||
| 1781 Thomas Hutchins designated Geographer of US | ||
| 1789 US Marine Corps created by an act of Congress | ||
| 1792 Prussia army moves into French territory | ||
| 1798 The U.S. Marine Corps was formally re-established by a congressional act that also created the U.S. Marine Band. | ||
| 1804 Aaron Burr, a former vice president of the United States, killed former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton in a duel over political rivalry and accusations. | ||
| 1812 US invades Canada (Detroit frontier) | ||
| 1826 Alexander Aphanashev, Russ story teller (Narodnye roesskie skazki) was born |
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| 1848 London's Waterloo Station opens | ||
| 1859 Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is published | ||
| 1863 Japanese battle cruiser shoots at Dutch warship Medusa | ||
| 1864 Confederate forces led by General Jubal Early began an abortive invasion of Washington, turning back the next day. | ||
| 1882 British fleet bombs Alexandria | ||
| 1892 US Patent Office says J W Swan, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp. | ||
| 1897 Solomon Andree leaves Spitsbergen by balloon towards North Pole | ||
| 1902 British premier Lord Salisbury resigns | ||
| 1905 Niagara Movement founded by WEB Dubois | ||
| 1921 Mongolia declared its independence as a People's Republic. | ||
| 1925 Queen Wilhelmina names H Colijn head of governament | ||
| 1934 Franklin Delano Roosevelt became the first president to sail through the Panama Canal. He was on board the cruiser USS Houston and was met at Balboa by President Harmodio Arias. | ||
| 1940 Marshal Henri Petain was declared chief of the French State in the wake of defeat by Nazi Germany and the resignation of President Lebrun. | Charles Dickens |
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| 1941 German troops attack Dnjepr | ||
| 1943 7th day of battle at Kursk | ||
| 1943 Counter attack by Hermann Goering Armour division in Sicily | ||
| 1943 US 45th Division occupies airport Comiso Sicily | ||
| 1943 US 82nd Airborne division shot at, by "friendly fire" in Sicily | ||
| 1948 1st air bombing of Jerusalem | ||
| 1952 Gen Eisenhower nominated as Republican presidential candidate | ||
| 1960 Czechoslovakia adopts Constitution | ||
| 1960 Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta & Niger declare independence | ||
| 1971 Chilean parliament nationalizes US copper mines | ||
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1973 Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris, 122 killed | |
| 1977 The Medal of Freedom was awarded posthumously to the Reverend Martin Luther King Junior. | ||
| 1978 A liquid gas tanker exploded in the middle of a camp site at San Carlos de la Rapita in Spain, killing almost 200 people. | ||
| 1979 The abandoned U.S. space station "Skylab" made a spectacular return to Earth, burning up in the atmosphere and showering debris over the Indian Ocean and Australia. | ||
| 1980 American hostage Richard I. Queen, freed by Iran after eight months of captivity because of poor health, left Tehran for Switzerland. | ||
| 1984 England's MusicBox begins satellite transmission to Europe | ||
| 1984 Govt orders air bags or seat belts would be required in cars by 1989 | ||
| 1985 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR | ||
| 1989 President Ronald Reagan sportscasts All Star Game | ||
| 1991 Nigerian DC-8 crashes near Djeddah, 261 die | ||
| 1991 Total solar eclipse is seen in Hawaii | ||
| 1995 Bosnian Serb forces shrugged off NATO air strikes to overrun Srebrenica, a U.N.-declared "safe area," sending tens of thousands of Muslims fleeing for their lives. | ||
| 1996 The U.N. criminal tribunal for former Yugoslavia issued international arrest warrants against Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic on charges of genocide and war crimes. | ||
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