Historical Events In July - 11

1960  On July - 11 ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta & Niger declare independence  

1960  On July - 11 ivory Coast, Niger, Upper Volta and Dahomey all become independent  

1960  28th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, KC on July - 11.  

1961  30th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 in 10 at Candlestick Pk, SF on July - 11.  

1962  Cosmonaut Micolaev set then record longest space flight - 4 days on July - 11.  

1962  On July - 11 fred Baldasare is first to swim English Channel underwater (scuba)  

1962  The first transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I) on this day in history.  

1962  On July - 11 1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I)  

1964  On this day in history maurice Thorez, sec-general French communist party, dies at 64  

1965  On July - 11 ray Collins actor (Halls of Ivy, Perry Mason), dies at 75  

1965  Ray Collins, actor (Halls of Ivy, Perry Mason), dies at 75 on this day in history.  

1966  Delmore Schwartz, US poet/critic (Shenandoah), dies at 52 on July - 11.  

1967  Canadian Pacific inaugurates first major unit train, shipping 3,700 tons of sulfuric acid from Copper Cliff to CIL in Sarnia on this day in history.  

1967  On this day in history kenny Rogers forms first Edition  

1967  On this day in history the first major "unit train" movement in Canada is inaugurated by Canadian Pacific - 3,700 tons of sulphuric acid from the Copper Cliff plant of CIL nr. Sudbury to Sarnia, Ontario.  

1969  On this day in history david Bowie releases "Space Oddity"  

1969  On this day in history rolling Stones release "Honky Tonk Woman"  

1971  On this day in history carleton Young actor (Court of Last Resorts), dies at 64  

1971  Carleton Young, actor (Court of Last Resorts), dies at 64 on July - 11.  

1973  On July - 11 isabel Randolph actress (Mrs Nester-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 83  

1973  On this day in history alexander Vasilyevich Mosolov, Russian composer (Zavod), dies at 72  

1974  On July - 11 house Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry  

1974  On July - 11 world Football League plays first games  

1975  Army of life-size terracotta soldiers discovered in China on this day in history.  

1975  L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2489 Suvorov on July - 11.  

1975  Kurt Pinthus, writer, dies at 89 on this day in history.  

1976  In the Panama-Colombia Border Region, The foreshock, a magnitude 6.7, was followed by a major earthquake of magnitude 7.0 four hours later. Several injured and10 houses and 1 bridge were destroyed in the area on July - 11.  

1977  On this day in history medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Rev Martin Luther King Jr  

1979  On this day in history debris from the US Skylab space station fall on Australia  

1979  On July - 11 uS Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia & disintegrates  

1980  American hostage Richard I Queen freed by Iran on this day in history.  

1980  On July - 11 peggy Knudson acttress (April-So This is Hollywood), dies at 57  

1980  On this day in history boleslaw Woytowicz, composer, dies at 80  

1981  Sebastian Coe of UK sets record for 1000 m, 2 12.18 on this day in history.  

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

1366  On July - 11 birth of anne of Bohemia, consort of Richard II of England (d. 1394)  

1540  Adolf van Nassau, German son of Willem the Rich/Juliana of Stolberg was born on July - 11.  

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

1561  On July - 11 birth of luis de Góngora, Spanish poet (d. 1627)  

1603  Kenelm Digby, English privateer (d. 1665) was born on July - 11.  

1628  Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (d. 1701) was born on July - 11.  

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

0155  On this day in history pius I, bishop of Rome (approx 140-155)/saint/martyr, dies  

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

0937  Death of King Rudolph II of Burgundy on July - 11.  

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

1174  On this day in history amalrik I, [Morri], French King of Jerusalem, dies  

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

1302  Jacques de Châtillon, count of Saint-Pol/gov of Flaanders, dies on July - 11.  

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