Historical Events In July - 11

1866  On July - 11 r Beer-Hofmann, writer  

1868  On this day in history j C Watson discovers asteroid #100 Hekate  

1871  On July - 11 stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Farmers' Party)  

1873  American whisky traders massacre group of Assiniboines; Cypress Hills Massacre forces the Government to send police to the Canadian West on July - 11.  

1874  On this day in history xavier FMG earl Merode, Belg pontifical defense minister, dies at 54  

1876  On July - 11 ottho G Heldring, vicar (H-gestichten), dies at 72  

1882  On this day in history british fleet bombs Alexandria  

1882  On July - 11 eugene L Simonis, Belgian sculptor, dies on 72nd birthday  

1885  On this day in history roger de la Fresnaye, French sculptor/painter  

1888  118ø F (48ø C), Bennett, Colorado (state record) on this day in history.  

1888  On July - 11 pennsylvania's Monongehela River rises 32' after 24 hour rainfall  

1888  On July - 11 118°F (48°C), Bennett, Colorado (state record)  

1888  Carl Schmitt, German nazi-lawyer (Verfassungslehre) on July - 11.  

1889  Tijuana in Mexico becomes a city on this day in history.  

1889  Alfred E Green, Perris CA, director (Copacabana, Jolson Story) on July - 11.  

1889  Gyula Reviczky, Hungarian author/poet, dies at 34 on this day in history.  

1890  On July - 11 japan holds her first political elections  

1890  Arthur W Tedder of Glenguin, British air marshal (WW II) on July - 11.  

1892  On this day in history uS Patent Office says J W Swan, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp  

1892  Giorgio Federico Ghedini, composer on this day in history.  

1893  The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto on this day in history.  

1893  Jack Durston, cricketer (England fast bowler against Australia 1921) on this day in history.  

1894  On this day in history walter Wanger, [Feuchtwanger], US producer (Stagecoach)  

1895  On this day in history first motion picture is shown in Paris by the Lumiere brothers.  

1895  Auguste & Louis Lumière show film for scientists on this day in history.  

1896  On July - 11 ernst Curtius, German archaeologist/historian (Olympia), dies at 81  

1897  Solomon Andree leaves Spitsbergen by balloon towards North Pole on July - 11.  

1897  On July - 11 blind Lemon Jefferson, rocker  

1898  Hendrik J Pos, Dutch philosopher/CEO (Committee of Watchfulness) on this day in history.  

1898  Charles Chanoine, French lt/mass murderer in Senegal, dies on July - 11.  

1899  On this day in history the birth of E. B. White, American writer  

1899  On July - 11 e B White, writer (Charlotte's Web, Elements of Style)  

1900  On July - 11 boer general De la Rey captures Scots Greys & Lincolns  

1901  On July - 11 l Carnera discovers asteroid #472 Roma  

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1274  Robert Bruce, King of Scotland (1306-29) was born on this day in history.  

1366  On this day in history birth of anne of Bohemia, consort of Richard II of England (d. 1394)  

1540  On this day in history birth of adolf van Nassau, German son of Willem the Rich/Juliana of Stolberg  

1558  Robert Greene, Elizabethan dramatist (Friar Bacon) was born on July - 11.  

1561  On this day in history birth of luis de Góngora, Spanish poet (d. 1627)  

1603  On this day in history birth of kenelm Digby, English privateer (d. 1665)  

1628  On this day in history birth of tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)  

1657  On July - 11 birth of frederik I, King of Prussia (1701-13)  

0155  Pius I, bishop of Rome (approx 140-155)/saint/martyr, dies on July - 11.  

0472  Death of Anthemius, Emperor of the Western Roman Empire on this day in history.  

0937  On July - 11 death of king Rudolph II of Burgundy  

0969  Death of Olga of Kiev on this day in history.  

1174  On July - 11 amalrik I, [Morri], French King of Jerusalem, dies  

1183  On this day in history death of otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria  

1302  On July - 11 jacques de Châtillon, count of Saint-Pol/gov of Flaanders, dies  

1382  Nicholas van Oresme, French philosopher/bishop of Lisieux, dies at 62 on this day in history.