Today is July 11
Cheer up the Lonely Day
All American Pet Photo Day
World Population Day
International Town Criers Day
Convenience Store Day (7-11 opened in 1927) Free Slurpee day! -
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Food Holidays – July 11
National Blueberry Muffin Day
Vegetarian Food Day
Easy Blueberry Muffin
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Blueberry Muffin
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Roast Vegetables With Vinaigrette
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Today in History – Interesting Highlights
Holidays and Observances
China National Maritime Day (China)
Christian Feast Day:
Benedict of Nursia
Olga of Kiev
July 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day of the Flemish Community (Flemish Community of Belgium)
Eleventh Night (Northern Ireland)
Gospel Day (Kiribati)
Imamat Day (Ismailism)
National Day of Commemoration, held on the nearest Sunday to this date (Ireland)
The first day of Naadam, also known as Revolution Day (Mongolia)
World Population Day (International)
In the News
1906 – Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.
1914 – USS Nevada (BB-36) is launched.
1919 – The eight-hour day and free Sunday become law for workers in the Netherlands.
1920 – In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany.
1921 – A truce in the Irish War of Independence comes into effect.
1921 – The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army and establishes the Mongolian People’s Republic.
1921 – Former President of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person ever to hold both offices.
1922 – The Hollywood Bowl opens.
1930 – Australian cricketer Donald Bradman scores a world record 309 runs in one day, on his way to the highest individual Test innings of 334, during a Test match against England.
1934 – Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take off.
1936 – The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
1940 – World War II: Vichy France regime is formally established. Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France.
1943 – Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Volhynia) peak.
1943 – World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily – German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.
1947 – The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
1950 – Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank.
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.
1960 – France legislates for the independence of Dahomey (later Benin), Upper Volta (later Burkina) and Niger.
1960 – Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, in the United States.
1962 – First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
1962 – Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.
1971 – Copper mines in Chile are nationalized.
1972 – The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.
1973 – Varig Flight 820 crashes near Paris, France on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 of the 134 on board. In response, the FAA bans smoking on flights.
1977 – Martin Luther King, Jr. is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
1978 – Los Alfaques Disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.
1979 – America’s first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
1990 – Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins.
1995 – The Srebrenica massacre is carried out.
2006 – Mumbai train bombings: 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
2012 – Astronomers announce the discovery of Styx, the fifth moon of Pluto.
Movies
Movies Released in History
1995 – Mark of the Devil 666: The Moralist
2003 – The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
2007 – Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix
2008 – Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Movies Released Today
And So It Goes Drama
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Drama
A Long Way Down Drama
Boyhood Documentary
Land Ho! Comedy
Rage Action
Road to Paloma Drama
Music
1861 – Composer Anton Stepanovich Arensky was born.
1885 – Composer George Sainton Kaye Butterworth was born.
1954 - Elvis Presley signed his first recording contract and quit his job as a truck driver. The contract was with Sun Records.
1959 – Alan Freed began a 13 week Rock & Roll show on ABC-TV.
1961 - Pat Boone began a 10-day tour of South Africa.
1962 - The Rolling Stones made their performance debut at the Marquee Club in London.
1969 - Blind Faith began their one and only tour with a sold-out show at New York’s Madison Square Garden.
1992 – A memorial to Buddy Holly was unveiled in Dallas, TX.
1992 – Axl Rose (Guns N’ Roses) was arrested at New York’s JFK airport on a warrant from St. Louis, MO. Rose was wanted on charges stemming from a 1991 Guns N’ Roses concert.
1996 – Jonathan Melvoin (Smashing Pumpkins) was found dead in a New York City hotel of a heroin overdose.
1997 – Anthony Keidis (Red Hot Chili Peppers) suffered a broken wrist in a motorcycle accident in Los Angeles, CA.
1998 – It was announced by Toronto’s Mayor Mel Lastman that the Spice Girls had backed out of a promise to perform at a free outdoor event at Toronto’s City Hall. The Spice Girls had decided instead to appear on the Canadian TV show MuchMusic.
1999 – DMX was arrested in Trinidad in mid-concert for using obscene language.
1999 – Fred Durst (Limp Bizkit) was arrested in St. Paul, MN, for allegedly kicking a local securit guard in the head during the band’s performance.
2010 – In Los Angeles, CA, Jewel performed her songs “Who Will Save Your Soul” and “Foolish Games” undercover at a karaoke bar.
Sports
1914 - Babe Ruth debuts as a pitcher for Boston Red Sox, he beats Cleve 4-3
1931 - NY Giants beat Phillies 23-8
1960 - 28th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, KC
Famous Birthdays
1903 – Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher, Russian colonel (d. 1971)
1903 – Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (d. 1976)
1904 – Niño Ricardo, Spanish guitarist and composer (d. 1972)
1906 – Herbert Wehner, German politician (d. 1990)
1908 – Karl Nabersberg, German youth leader (d. 1946)
1910 – Irene Hervey, American actress (d. 1998)
1911 – Erna Flegel, German nurse (d. 2006)
1912 – Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor and composer (d. 1996)
1912 – William F. Walsh, American politician (d. 2011)
1913 – Cordwainer Smith, American author (d. 1966)
1916 – Alexander Prokhorov, Australian-Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
1916 – Reg Varney, English actor (d. 2008)
1916 – Gough Whitlam, Australian lieutenant and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Australia
1918 – Venetia Burney, English girl, who named Pluto (d. 2009)
1920 – Yul Brynner, Russian-American actor and director (d. 1985)
1920 – James von Brunn, American murderer, committed the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting (d. 2010)
1921 – Ilse Werner, Dutch-German actress and singer (d. 2005)
1922 – Gene Evans, American actor (d. 1998)
1923 – Richard Pipes, Polish-American historian and academic
1924 – César Lattes, Brazilian physicist (d. 2005)
1924 – Brett Somers, Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 2007)
1924 – Charlie Tully, Irish footballer (d. 1971)
1925 – Nicolai Gedda, Swedish tenor
1925 – Peter Kyros, American politician (d. 2012)
1925 – Sid Smith, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
1926 – Peter Bennett, Australian footballer (d. 2012)
1926 – Frederick Buechner, American minister and author
1927 – Theodore Maiman, American physicist (d. 2007)
1928 – Bobo Olson, American boxer (d. 2002)
1929 – Danny Flores, singer-songwriter and saxophonist (The Champs) (d. 2006)
1929 – David Kelly, Irish actor (d. 2012)
1929 – Hermann Prey, German opera singer (d. 1998)
1930 – Harold Bloom, American author and critic
1930 – Trevor Storer, English businessman, founded Pukka Pies (d. 2013)
1931 – Dick Gray, American baseball player (d. 2013)
1931 – Thurston Harris, American singer (d. 1990)
1931 – Tab Hunter, American actor and singer
1931 – Tullio Regge, Italian physicist
1932 – Jean-Guy Talbot, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1933 – Jim Carlen, American football player and coach (d. 2012)
1933 – Frank Kelso, American admiral (d. 2013)
1934 – Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer, founded the Armani Company
1935 – Frederick Hemke, American saxophonist and educator
1935 – Oliver Napier, Irish politician (d. 2011)
1937 – Pai Hsien-yung, Taiwanese author
1938 – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, American historian and scholar
1940 – Yvon Charbonneau, Canadian politician
1941 – Michael Giannatos, Turkish-Greek actor (d. 2013)
1941 – Clive Puzey, Zimbabwean race car driver
1943 – Oscar D’León, Venezuelan bass player (Dimensión Latina)
1943 – Howard Gardner, American psychologist
1943 – Tom Holland, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1943 – Peter Jensen, Australian archbishop
1943 – Robert Malval, Haitian politician, 5th Prime Minister of Haiti
1943 – Rolf Stommelen, German race car driver (d. 1983)
1944 – Lou Hudson, American basketball player (d. 2014)
1944 – Patricia Polacco, American author and illustrator
1946 – Cuthbert Johnson, English liturgist
1946 – Beverly Todd American actress
1947 – Bo Lundgren, Swedish politician
1949 – Liona Boyd, English-Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1949 – Jay Johnson, American ventriloquist
1950 – Pervez Hoodbhoy, Pakistani physicist
1950 – Bruce McGill, American actor
1950 – J. R. Morgan, Welsh academic and author
1950 – Bonnie Pointer, American singer (The Pointer Sisters)
1951 – Ed Ott, American baseball player and coach
1952 – Bill Barber, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1952 – John Kettley, English journalist
1953 – Piyasvasti Amranand, Thai politician
1953 – Angélica Aragón, Mexican actress
1953 – Peter Brown, American singer-songwriter and producer
1953 – Lon Burnam, American politician
1953 – Larry Evans, American football player
1953 – Cats Falck, Swedish journalist (d. 1984)
1953 – Jay Glaser, American sailor
1953 – Samuel Hinds, American baseball player
1953 – William Patey, Scottish diplomat
1953 – Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu, Indian politician
1953 – Paul Priddy, English footballer
1953 – Nigel Richard Rees, Welsh footballer
1953 – Wu Shu-chen, Chinese wife of Chen Shui-bian
1953 – Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Mexican actress, director, and producer
1953 – Leon Spinks, American boxer
1953 – Mindy Sterling, American actress
1953 – Ivan Toms, South African physician (d. 2008)
1953 – Bramwell Tovey, English-Canadian conductor and composer
1953 – Paul Weiland, English director, producer, and screenwriter
1954 – Butch Reed, American wrestler
1955 – Balaji Sadasivan, Singaporean neurosurgeon and politician (d. 2010)
1956 – Robin Renucci, French actor and director
1956 – Sela Ward, American actress
1957 – Peter Murphy, English singer-songwriter (Bauhaus and Dalis Car)
1957 – Michael Rose, Jamaican singer-songwriter (Black Uhuru)
1958 – Andrew Gilbert-Scott, English race car car driver
1958 – Hugo Sánchez, Mexican footballer, coach, and manager
1959 – Dave Bennett, English footballer
1959 – Richie Sambora, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Bon Jovi)
1959 – Suzanne Vega, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1960 – David Baerwald American singer-songwriter (David & David)
1961 – Antony Jenkins, English businessman
1962 – Gaétan Duchesne, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
1962 – Pauline McLynn, Irish actress
1963 – Al MacInnis, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 – Lisa Rinna, American actress
1964 – Craig Charles, English actor
1964 – Kyril, Prince of Preslav
1965 – Tony Cottee, English footballer, manager, and sportscaster
1965 – Ernesto Hoost, Dutch kick-boxer
1965 – Scott Shriner, American bass player (Weezer)
1966 – Greg Grunberg, American actor
1966 – Kentaro Miura, Japanese author and illustrator
1966 – Mick Molloy, Australian actor, screenwriter, and producer
1966 – Rod Strickland, American basketball player
1966 – Bo Sanchez, Filipino Catholic Charismatic lay preacher and author
1967 – Andy Ashby, American baseball player
1967 – Jeff Corwin, American television host and producer
1967 – Jhumpa Lahiri, English-American author
1967 – Donne Wall, American baseball player
1968 – Michael Geist, Canadian academic
1968 – Daniel MacMaster, Canadian singer-songwriter (Bonham) (d. 2008)
1968 – Esera Tuaolo, American football player
1969 – David Tao, Taiwanese singer-songwriter
1970 – Justin Chambers, American actor
1970 – Mark Fox, English journalist
1970 – Sajjad Karim, English politician
1971 – Leisha Hailey, Japanese-American singer-songwriter and actress (Uh Huh Her and The Murmurs)
1972 – Jussi 69, Finnish drummer (The 69 Eyes)
1972 – Cormac Battle, Irish musician (vocalist and lead guitarist with Kerbdog and Wilt) and radio presenter/producer.
1972 – Steven Richards, Australian race car driver
1972 – Michael Rosenbaum, American actor, director, and producer
1973 – Andrew Bird, American singer-songwriter and violinist (Squirrel Nut Zippers and Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire)
1973 – Konstantinos Kenteris, Greek runner
1974 – Alanas Chošnau, Lithuanian singer-songwriter
1974 – Hermann Hreiðarsson, Icelandic footballer and manager
1974 – André Ooijer, Dutch footballer
1975 – Bridgette Andersen, American actress (d. 1997)
1975 – Willie Anderson, American football player
1975 – Rubén Baraja, Spanish footballer
1975 – Samer el Nahhal, Finnish bass player (Lordi)
1975 – Riona Hazuki, Japanese actress
1975 – Lil’ Kim, American rapper, producer, and actress
1975 – Nadya Suleman, American mother of the Suleman octuplets
1976 – Eduardo Nájera, Mexican-American basketball player and coach
1977 – Brandon Short, American football player and sportscaster
1978 – Kathleen Edwards, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1978 – Massimiliano Rosolino, Italian swimmer
1979 – Raio Piiroja, Estonian footballer
1979 – Lauris Reiniks, Latvian singer-songwriter and actor
1980 – Tyson Kidd, Canadian wrestler
1980 – Kevin Powers, American soldier and author
1980 – Im Soo-jung, South Korean actress
1981 – Andre Johnson, American football player
1982 – Chris Cooley, American football player
1982 – Lil Zane, American rapper and actor
1983 – Peter Cincotti, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1983 – Kelly Poon, Singaporean singer
1983 – Evan Roberts, American radio host
1983 – Marie Serneholt, Swedish singer and dancer (A*Teens)
1983 – Kellie Shirley, English actress
1984 – Yorman Bazardo, Venezuelan baseball player
1984 – Tanith Belbin, Canadian-American ice dancer
1984 – Hitomi Hyuga, Japanese actress
1984 – Jacoby Jones, American footballer player
1984 – Hokuto “Hok” Konishi, Japanese-American dancer
1984 – Joe Pavelski, American ice hockey player
1984 – Rachael Taylor, Australian actress
1984 – Morné Steyn, South African rugby player
1985 – Orestis Karnezis, Greek footballer
1985 – Robert Adamson, American actor
1985 – Aki Maeda, Japanese actress and singer
1986 – Raúl García, Spanish footballer
1986 – Yoann Gourcuff, French footballer
1986 – Ryan Jarvis, English footballer
1987 – Shigeaki Kato, Japanese singer and actor (NEWS and K.K.Kity)
1988 – Yuka Iguchi, Japanese voice actress
1988 – Étienne Capoue, French footballer
1988 – Annette Melton, Australian actress and model
1988 – Natalya Zhedik, Russian basketball player
1989 – Shareeka Epps, American actress
1989 – David Henrie, American actor
1989 – Liel Kolet, Israeli singer
1989 – Tobias Sana, Swedish footballer
1990 – Mona Barthel, German tennis player
1990 – George Craig, English singer-songwriter and model (One Night Only)
1990 – Adam Jezierski, Polish-Spanish actor
1990 – Connor Paolo, American actor
1990 – Patrick Peterson, American football player
1990 – Kelsey Sanders, American actress and singer
1990 – Mona Barthel, German tennis player
1990 – Caroline Wozniacki, Danish tennis player
1991 – Alice Svensson, Vietnamese-Swedish singer
1993 – Rebecca Bross, American gymnast
1993 – Georgia Henshaw, Welsh actress
1993 – Heini Salonen, Finnish tennis player
1994 – Lucas Ocampos, Argentinian footballer
1994 – Nina Nesbitt, Scottish singer
1995 – Vanessa Axente, Hungarian fashion model
1995 – Tyler Medeiros, Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer
Deaths
1905 – Muhammad Abduh, Egyptian jurist and scholar (b. 1849)
1908 – Friedrich Traun, German tennis player (b. 1876)
1909 – Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (b. 1835)
1920 – Eugénie de Montijo, Spanish wife of Napoleon III (b. 1826)
1929 – Billy Mosforth, English footballer (b. 1857)
1936 – James Murray, American actor (b. 1901)
1937 – George Gershwin, American pianist and composer (b. 1898)
1959 – Charlie Parker, English cricketer, coach, and umpire (b. 1882)
1966 – Delmore Schwartz, American poet and author (b. 1913)
1967 – Guy Favreau, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1917)
1971 – John W. Campbell, American journalist and author (b. 1910)
1971 – Pedro Rodríguez, Mexican race car driver (b. 1940)
1974 – Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
1976 – León de Greiff, Colombian poet (b. 1895)
1979 – Claude Wagner, Canadian judge and politician (b. 1925)
1983 – Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian author (b. 1915)
1987 – Avi Ran, Israeli footballer (b. 1963)
1987 – Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman, American rabbi and scholar (b. 1901)
1989 – Laurence Olivier, English actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
1994 – Savannah, American porn actress (b. 1970)
1994 – Gary Kildall, American computer scientist, founded Digital Research (b. 1942)
1995 – Don Starr, American actor (b. 1917)
1998 – Panagiotis Kondylis, Greek author (b. 1943)
1999 – Helen Forrest, American singer (b. 1917)
2000 – Pedro Mir, Dominican poet (b. 1913)
2000 – Robert Runcie, English archbishop (b. 1921)
2001 – Herman Brood, Dutch singer and actor (b. 1946)
2001 – Gaspare di Mercurio, Italian doctor and author (b. 1926)
2004 – Laurance Rockefeller, American financier and philanthropist (b. 1910)
2004 – Renée Saint-Cyr, French actress and producer (b. 1904)
2005 – Gretchen Franklin, English actress (b. 1911)
2005 – Shinya Hashimoto, Japanese wrestler (b. 1965)
2005 – Jesús Iglesias, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1922)
2005 – Frances Langford, American actress and singer (b. 1914)
2006 – Barnard Hughes, American actor (b. 1915)
2006 – John Spencer, English snooker player (b. 1935)
2007 – Glenda Adams, Australian author (b. 1939)
2007 – Lady Bird Johnson, American businesswoman, 43rd First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
2007 – Alfonso López Michelsen, Colombian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Colombia (b. 1913)
2007 – Ed Mirvish, American-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded Honest Ed’s (b. 1914)
2008 – Michael E. DeBakey, American surgeon (b. 1908)
2009 – Reg Fleming, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1936)
2009 – Arturo Gatti, Italian-Canadian boxer (b. 1972)
2009 – Go Mi-young, South Korean mountaineer (b. 1967)
2009 – Ji Xianlin, Chinese linguist and paleographer (b. 1911)
2010 – Walter Hawkins, American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and pastor (b. 1949)
2010 – Bob Sheppard, American sportscaster (b. 1910)
2011 – Rob Grill, American singer-songwriter and bass player (The Grass Roots) (b. 1943)
2012 – Dewayne Bunch, American educator and politician (b. 1962)
2012 – Art Ceccarelli, American baseball player (b. 1930)
2012 – Marion Cunningham, American author (b. 1922)
2012 – Joe McBride, Scottish footballer (b. 1938)
2012 – Richard Scudder, American journalist and publisher, co-founded MediaNews Group (b. 1913)
2012 – André Simon, French race car driver (b. 1920)
2012 – Donald J. Sobol, American author (b. 1924)
2012 – Marvin Traub, American businessman and author (b. 1925)
2013 – Zeb Alley, American politician (b. 1928)
2013 – Egbert Brieskorn, German mathematician (b. 1936)
2013 – Eugene P. Wilkinson, American admiral (b. 1918)
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