What are the important events that happened on July 11? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
July 11: Facts & Myths About This Day
July 11 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 28, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,720,656,000 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaenneacontatrigon’ day.
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Cancer is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,220 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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July 11 Historical Events
- 1616 –Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
- 1750 –Halifax, Nova Scotia is almost completely destroyed by fire.
- 1889 –Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.
- 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.
- 1971 –Copper mines in Chile are nationalized.
- 1983 –A Boeing 737 crashes into hilly terrain after a tail strike in Cuenca, Ecuador, claiming 119 lives.
- 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.
- 1995 –A Cubana de Aviación Antonov An-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44 people.
- 2011 –Neptune completes its first orbit since its discovery on September 23, 1846.
Who were born on July 11?
- 1864 –Petar Danov, Bulgarian spiritual teacher (d. 1944)
- 1910 –Irene Hervey, American actress (d. 1998)
- 1916 –Alexander Mikhaylovich Prokhorov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
- 1924 –César Lattes, Brazilian physicist (d. 2005)
- 1951 –Robert R. McCammon, American horror novelist
- 1958 –Andrew Gilbert-Scott, British racing driver
- 1962 –Pauline McLynn, Irish actress
- 1966 –Greg Grunberg, American actor
- 1977 –Brandon Short, American football player
- 1984 –Hitomi Hyuga, Japanese actress
Who died on July 11?
- 1775 –Simon Boerum, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
- 1844 –Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (b. 1800)
- 1909 –Simon Newcomb, American astronomer and mathematician (b. 1835)
- 1987 –Yaakov Yitzchak Ruderman, American Rosh Yeshiva (b. 1901)
- 1989 –Sir Laurence Olivier, acclaimed English stage and screen actor (b. 1907)
- 2000 –Pedro Mir, Dominican poet (b. 1913)
- 2004 –Laurance Rockefeller, American conservationist and philanthropist (b. 1910)
- 2005 –Shinya Hashimoto, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1965)
- 2006 –Barnard Hughes, American actor (b. 1915)
- 2007 –Ed Mirvish, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1914)
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