On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on July 11:
1274 Robert the Bruce Scotland, King (1328-1329)
1558 Robert Greene Elizabethan dramatist (Friar Bacon)
1754 Thomas Bowdler famous prude, bowdlerized Shakespeare
1767 John Quincy Adams Braintree, Mass, 6th Pres (D) (1825-1829)
1825 Edward Henry Hobson, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1901
1838 John Wanamaker merchant (Wanamakers Dept Store)
1841 William Paul Roberts, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
1897 - Blind Lemon Jefferson,Blues musician
1899 E.B. White writer (Charlotte's Web, Elements of Style)
1915 Colin Purdie Kelly US, 1st US air hero during WW II
1915 Yul Brynner(Taidje Khan) Sakhalin Is Japan, actor (King & I)
1922 Gene Evans Hollbrook Az, actor (My Friend Flicka, Matt Helm, Alamo)
1931 Tab Hunter actor (Damn Yankees, Lust in the Dust, Battle Cry)
1931 Thurston Harris Indianapolis, vocalist (Little Bitty Pretty One)
1945 Deborah Harry singer (Blondie) actress (Videodrome, Hairspray)
1947 Jeff Hanna rock vocalist (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band-Mr Bojangles)
1950 Bonnie Pointer singer (Pointer Sisters)
1953 Leon Spinks US, heavyweight boxing champ (1978, Olympic-gold-1976)
1987 Matej Gaspar, Yugoslavia, 5,000,000,000th person (UN)
Deaths which occurred on July 11:
0155 Pius I, bishop of Rome (approx 140-155)/saint/martyr, dies
1174 Amalrik I, [Morri], French King of Jerusalem, dies
1593 Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1st surrealist painter, dies (birth date unkn)
1804 Alex Hamilton killed by VP Aaron Burr in pistol duel near Weehawken
1806 James Smith, Irish/US attorney/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 87
1909 Simon Newcomb celestial mechanics authority, dies
1937 George Gershwin composer (American in Paris), dies at 38
1965 Ray Collins actor (Halls of Ivy, Perry Mason), dies at 75
1971 John W Campbell, US, sci-fi writer/a founder of the genre (Space Beyond), dies at 61
1989 Sir Laurence Olivier acting great, dies at 82
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
1966 SHATTUCK LEWIS W.---VAN COUVER WA.
[02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE IN 98]
1966 WILKINS GEORGE H.---GOLDSBORO NC.
[REMAINS RETURNED 10/30/96]
1972 CRODY KENNETH L.---GRIFFITH IN.
1972 HENDRIX JERRY W.---WICHITA KS.
1972 LESESNE HENRY D.---FLORENCE SC.
[03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1972 MASTERSON FREDERICK J.---OAKLAND CA.
03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE IN 98]
1972 RANDALL ROBERT I.---NEPTUNE NJ.
[03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE IN 98]
POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.
On this day...
1376 English "Good Parliament" meets
1533 Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
1740 Jews are expelled from Little Russia by order of Czarina Anne
1781 Thomas Hutchins designated Geographer of the US
1798 US Marine Corps created by an act of Congress
(happy birthday jarheads, drop and give me 50)
1804 VP Aaron Burr kills Alex Hamilton in a pistol duel near Weehawken
1812 US invades Canada (Detroit frontier)
1818 Keats writes "In the Cottage Where Burns Was Born," "Lines Written in the Highlands," & "The Gadfly"
1859 Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is published
1861 Battle of Laurel Mountain VA-Gen Morris forces retreat of rebels
1861 Battle of Rich Mountain, VA - Rosecrans forces rebels to surrender
1862 Lincoln appoints General Halleck general-in-chief
1864 Confederate forces led by Gen J Early begin invasion of Wash DC
1868 J C Watson discovers asteroid #100 Hekate
1888 118ø F (48ø C), Bennett, Colorado (state record)
1888 Pennsylvania's Monongehela River rises 32' after 24 hour rainfall
1892 US Patent Office says J W Swan, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp
1895 Auguste and Louis Lumiere show film for scientists
1895 Charles E Duryea patents a gas-driven automobile
1901 L Carnera discovers asteroid #472 Roma
1905 Black intellectuals & activists organize Niagara movement
1916 1st federal grant-in-aid for state roads enacted
1921 Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day)
1934 FDR became 1st pres to travel through Panama Canal
1941 Vichy-French planes bomb Tel Aviv
1943 7th day of battle at Kursk
1943 Counter attack by Hermann Goering Armour division in Sicily
1952 Gen Eisenhower nominated as Republican presidential candidate (I Like Ike)
1954 1st White Citizens Council organizes in Indianola, Miss
1955 Congress authorizes all US currency to say "In God We Trust"
1955 New USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colo with 300 cadets
1960 Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta & Niger declare independence
1962 1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I)
1962 Cosmonaut Micolaev set then record longest space flight - 4 days
1962 Fred Baldasare is 1st to swim English Channel underwater (scuba)
1967 Longest All Star Game, NL beats AL 2-1 (15 inn) (Anaheim Stadium, Cal)
1969 Rolling Stones release "Honky Tonk Woman"
1971 Chilean parliament nationalizes US copper mines
1974 House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry
1975 Chinese archeologists discover a 3-acre burial site with 6,000 clay statues of warriors dating as early as 221 BC
1975 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2489 Suvorov
1977 Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Rev Martin Luther King Jr
1979 US Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia & disintegrates
1981 Neva Rockefeller is 1st woman ordered to pay her husband alimony
1985 Astros' Nolan Ryan, 1st to strike out 4000 (Mets' Danny Heep)
1985 Refurbished Columbia moves overland from Palmdale to Dryden
1986 Mary Beth Whitehead christens surrogate Baby M, Sara
1988 Mike Tyson hires Donald Trump as an advisor
1989 President Ronald Reagan sportscasts the All Star Game
1990 NYC police arrest "Dartman" (stabbed over 50 women with darts)
1991 Total solar eclipse is seen in Hawaii
1995 US establishes diplomatic relations with Vietnam
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Appleton Cheshire, England : Bawming the Thorn Day
Dahomey, Ivory Coast, Niger, Upper Volta : Independence Day (1960)
Mongolia : National Day (1921)
North Belgium : Flemish Day
South Africa : Family Day (Monday)
Swaziland : Reed Dance Day (Monday)
US : National Ice Cream Day
Vegetarian Food Day
Captive Nations Week Begins
National Eye Exam Month
Religious Observances
Orthodox : Feast of St Olga, 1st Russian saint the Orthodox Church
RC : Commemoration of St Pius I, 10th pope (141-55), martyr
Ang, Luth, RC : Mem of St Benedict of Nursia, abbot of Monte Cassino
Religious History
1533 Clement VII excommunicated Henry VIII for divorcing Catherine of Aragon, andafterward marrying Anne Boleyn. Two years later, Henry broke with Rome and established theAnglican communion as the national religion of England.
1656 Ann Austin and Mary Fisher became the first Quakers to arrive in America Ä andwere promptly arrested. Five weeks later, they were deported back to England.
1952 American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'Teach me, LordJesus,... not to be hungering for the "strange and peculiar" when the common, ordinary, andregular, rightly taken, will suffice to feed and satisfy the soul.'
1955 American Presbyterian missionary Francis Schaeffer observed in a letter: 'No priceis too high to have a free conscience before God.'
1967 The Vatican reported that Albania had closed its last Roman Catholic church.(Albania is a tiny Balkan country with an area only the size of Maryland.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Thought for the day :
"He was a bold man that first ate an oyster."
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2. Nice stroke, but your follow through has a lot to be desired.
