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11 July, 2006
209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India. Microsofts official support of Windows 98 and Windows Me ends.
11 July, 2004
CIA Director George Tenet leaves his position at the agency.
11 July, 2003
Lahore-Delhi bus service resumed after suspension of 18 months.
11 July, 1995
Full diplomatic relations are established between the United States and Vietnam. Srebrenica Genocide: Serb army from Yugoslavia and Bosnia, capture the Bosniak town of Srebrenica. More than eight thousands inhabitants are murdered. It is generally regarded to be the most horrific event in recent European history. A Cubana de Aviacion Antonov An-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44 people.
11 July, 1991
A Nationair DC-8 crashed during an emergency landing at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing 261. The Canadian charter was ferrying Hajj pilgrims on behalf of Nigeria Airways. Total solar eclipse in Hawaii and Mexico.
11 July, 1990
Oka Crisis in Quebec.
11 July, 1987
According to the United Nations, the world population crosses the 5,000,000,000 mark.
11 July, 1983
A Boeing 727 crashes into hilly terrain after a tail strike in Cuenca, Ecuador, claiming 119 lives.
11 July, 1982
Italy wins its third FIFA World Cup.
11 July, 1979
America's Skylab I returned to earth after 34,981 orbits and six years in space.
11 July, 1979
The space station Skylab returns to Earth.
11 July, 1978
Los Alfaques Disaster: a truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.
11 July, 1977
Martin Luther King is posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom.
11 July, 1975
Chinese archaeologists discover a large burial site with 6,000 clay statutes of warriors from 221 BC.
11 July, 1973
A Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 people of the 134 on-board.
11 July, 1971
Copper mines in Chile nationalized.
11 July, 1962
First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
11 July, 1960
Independence of Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published.
11 July, 1957
Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismaili worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III
11 July, 1955
The phrase In God We Trust is added to all US currency.
11 July, 1950
Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank.
11 July, 1944
Franklin D. Roosevelt says he will run for a fourth term as President of the United States.
11 July, 1943
World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily - German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.
11 July, 1940
World War II: Vichy France regime formally established. Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France.
11 July, 1936
Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
11 July, 1922
Hollywood Bowl opens.
11 July, 1921
Truce called in the Irish War of Independence; see Irish calendar. Former US President William Howard Taft sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, becoming the only person to ever be both President and Chief Justice. Mongolia becomes independent (from China).
11 July, 1919
Eight-hour working day and free Sunday made into law in the Netherlands.
11 July, 1914
Babe Ruth debuts in Major league baseball.
11 July, 1906
Gillette-Brown murder inspires Theodore Dreisers An American Tragedy
11 July, 1897
Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to try to reach the North pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
11 July, 1895
The brothers Lumière show film for scientists.
11 July, 1893
The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
11 July, 1889
Tijuana, Mexico was founded
11 July, 1864
Confederate forces attempt an invasion of Washington, D.C.
11 July, 1859
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is published.
11 July, 1848
The Waterloo railway station in London opens.
11 July, 1811
Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoir about molecular content of gases.
11 July, 1804
Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr kills Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
11 July, 1798
The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.
11 July, 1796
The U.S. takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.
11 July, 1789
Jacques Necker dismissed as Finance Minister for France sparking the Storming of the Bastille.
11 July, 1776
Captain James Cook begins third voyage.
11 July, 1750
Halifax, Nova Scotia almost completely destroyed by fire.
11 July, 1740
Pogrom: Jews are expelled from Little Russia.
11 July, 1735
Mathematical calculations suggest it was on this day that Pluto moved from the ninth to the eighth most distant planet from the Sun for the last time before 1979.
11 July, 1616
Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
11 July, 1576
Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.
11 July, 1476
Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances.
11 July, 1405
Chinese fleet commander Zheng He set sail to explore the world for the first time.

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