Historical Events In July - 11

1866  R Beer-Hofmann, writer on July - 11.   

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

1871  On this day in history stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Farmers' Party)   

1873  On this day in history american whisky traders massacre group of Assiniboines; Cypress Hills Massacre forces the Government to send police to the Canadian West.   

1874  Xavier FMG earl Merode, Belg pontifical defense minister, dies at 54 on July - 11.   

1876  Ottho G Heldring, vicar (H-gestichten), dies at 72 on July - 11.   

1882  On this day in history british fleet bombs Alexandria   

1882  Eugene L Simonis, Belgian sculptor, dies on 72nd birthday on July - 11.   

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

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

1889  On this day in history tijuana in Mexico becomes a city   

1889  On July - 11 alfred E Green, Perris CA, director (Copacabana, Jolson Story)   

1889  Gyula Reviczky, Hungarian author/poet, dies at 34 on July - 11.   

1890  Japan holds her first political elections on July - 11.   

1890  On July - 11 arthur W Tedder of Glenguin, British air marshal (WW II)   

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

1892  Giorgio Federico Ghedini, composer on July - 11.   

1893  On this day in history the first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.   

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

1894  On July - 11 walter Wanger, [Feuchtwanger], US producer (Stagecoach)   

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

1895  On July - 11 auguste & Louis Lumière show film for scientists   

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

1897  On July - 11 solomon Andree leaves Spitsbergen by balloon towards North Pole   

1897  On July - 11 blind Lemon Jefferson, rocker   

1898  On this day in history hendrik J Pos, Dutch philosopher/CEO (Committee of Watchfulness)   

1898  On this day in history charles Chanoine, French lt/mass murderer in Senegal, dies   

1899  The birth of E. B. White, American writer on July - 11.   

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

1900  Boer general De la Rey captures Scots Greys & Lincolns on July - 11.   

1901  L Carnera discovers asteroid #472 Roma on this day in history.   

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1274  Robert Bruce, King of Scotland (1306-29) was born on July - 11.   

1366  Anne of Bohemia, consort of Richard II of England (d. 1394) was born on this day in history.   

1540  Adolf van Nassau, German son of Willem the Rich/Juliana of Stolberg was born on this day in history.   

1558  On this day in history birth of robert Greene, Elizabethan dramatist (Friar Bacon)   

1561  Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet (d. 1627) was born on July - 11.   

1603  Kenelm Digby, English privateer (d. 1665) was born on this day in history.   

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

1657  Frederik I, King of Prussia (1701-13) was born on July - 11.   

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

0472  On this day in history death of anthemius, Emperor of the Western Roman Empire   

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

0969  On July - 11 death of olga of Kiev   

1174  Amalrik I, [Morri], French King of Jerusalem, dies on this day in history.   

1183  Death of Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria on July - 11.   

1302  On this day in history jacques de Châtillon, count of Saint-Pol/gov of Flaanders, dies   

1382  Nicholas van Oresme, French philosopher/bishop of Lisieux, dies at 62 on July - 11.