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July 11 Birthdays



Yul Brynner
MOVIE ACTOR

BIRTHDAY
July 11, 1920

BIRTHPLACE
Vladivostok, Russia

DEATH DATE
Oct 10, 1985 (age 65)

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Ricky Warwick
ROCK SINGER

BIRTHDAY
July 11, 1966

BIRTHPLACE
Northern Ireland

AGE
52 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Richie Sambora
GUITARIST

BIRTHDAY
July 11, 1959

BIRTHPLACE
Perth Amboy, NJ

AGE
59 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Giorgio Armani
FASHION DESIGNER

BIRTHDAY
July 11, 1934

BIRTHPLACE
Piacenza, Italy

AGE
84 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Bull Connor
POLITICIAN

BIRTHDAY
July 11, 1897

BIRTHPLACE
Selma, AL

DEATH DATE
Mar 10, 1973 (age 75)

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer



July 11 Deaths




John Seigenthaler
JOURNALIST

BIRTHDAY
July 27, 1927

BIRTHPLACE
Tennessee

DEATH DATE
Jul 11, 2014 (age 86)

BIRTH SIGN
Leo




Bob Sheppard
SPORTSCASTER

BIRTHDAY
October 20, 1910

BIRTHPLACE
New York City, NY

DEATH DATE
Jul 11, 2010 (age 99)

BIRTH SIGN
Libra




Tommy Ramone
DRUMMER

BIRTHDAY
January 29, 1949

BIRTHPLACE
Budapest, Hungary

DEATH DATE
Jul 11, 2014 (age 65)

BIRTH SIGN
Aquarius




Sir Laurence Olivier
MOVIE ACTOR

BIRTHDAY
May 22, 1907

BIRTHPLACE
Dorking, England

DEATH DATE
Jul 11, 1989 (age 82)

BIRTH SIGN
Gemini




George Gershwin
COMPOSER

BIRTHDAY
September 26, 1898

BIRTHPLACE
Brooklyn, NY

DEATH DATE
Jul 11, 1937 (age 38)

BIRTH SIGN
Libra




Lady Bird Johnson
POLITICAL WIFE

BIRTHDAY
December 22, 1912

BIRTHPLACE
Karnack, TX

DEATH DATE
Jul 11, 2007 (age 94)

BIRTH SIGN
Capricorn

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Historical Events on July 11


1656  The first Quakers to land in America (Boston), Englishwomen Ann Austin and Mary Fisher, are arrested and jailed by the Puritan colonial government. After 5 years imprisonment they are deported back to Barbados

1740  Jews are expelled from Little Russia by order of Tsarina Anne

1776  Captain James Cook begins his third voyage

Explorer
James Cook

1798  US Marine Corps established by an act of Congress

1804  Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel

1st US Secretary of Treasury
Alexander Hamilton


3rd Vice President of the United States
Aaron Burr

1812  US invades Canada (Detroit frontier)

1861  Battle of Laurel Mountain Virginia - General Morris forces retreat of rebels

1861  Battle of Rich Mountain, Virginia - Rosecrans forces rebels to surrender

1862  Lincoln appoints General Halleck general-in-chief

1863  Battle at Green River, Kentucky (Morgan's Ohio Raid)

1864  Battle of Fort Stevens, DC (Early's Raid, Tennallytown, Maryland)

1864  Confederate forces led by General J Early begin invasion of Washington, D.C.

1888  118°F (48°C), Bennett, Colorado (state record)

1888  Pennsylvania's Monongehela River rises 32' after 24 hour rainfall

1892  US Patent Office says Joseph Swan rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp

Inventor
Thomas Edison

1895  First ever automobile race: Paris to Bordeaux 1,178 km in 48 hours, 48 minutes

1905  Black intellectuals and activists lead by W.E.B. Du Bois organize the civil rights Niagara Movement

Civil Rights Activist
W.E.B. Du Bois

1916  US Congress passes Federal Aid Road Act

1921  Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day)

1922  The Hollywood Bowl opens.

1934  FDR became 1st US President to travel through Panama Canal

32nd US President
Franklin D. Roosevelt

1936  Triborough Bridge linking Manhattan, Bronx and Queens opens

1943  Counter attack by Hermann Goering's Armoured division in Sicily

Nazi Politician
Hermann Goering

1943  US 45th Division occupies airport Comiso Sicily

1944  Franklin Roosevelt announces that he will run for a fourth term as President of the United States

1948  1st air bombing of Jerusalem

1952  General Eisenhower nominated as Republican US presidential candidate

34th US President & WWII General
Dwight D. Eisenhower

1955  Congress authorizes all US currency to say "In God We Trust"

1960  "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee is first published by J. B. Lippincott & Co.

Author
Harper Lee

1962  1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I)

1967  Kenny Rogers forms 1st Edition

Country Singer
Kenny Rogers

1969  David Bowie releases the single "Space Oddity" 9 days before Apollo 11 lands on the moon

Singer-Songwriter
David Bowie

1969  Rolling Stones release "Honky Tonk Woman"

1974  House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry

1977  US Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Rev Martin Luther King Jr

1979  US Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia and disintegrates

1980  American hostage Richard Queen freed by Iran militants due to illness

1981  Neva Rockefeller is 1st woman ordered to pay her husband alimony

1988  Mike Tyson hires Donald Trump as an advisor

1989  President Ronald Reagan sportscasts All Star Game

2001  Iraq resumes oil exports, ending a 5-week halt in protest of a US and British-sponsored UN Security Council resolution

2014  The UN Security Council calls for a special meeting to discuss the current Israel–Palestinian conflict; Israel continue attacks on Gaza

2015  Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escapes from Altiplano maximum-security prison west of Mexico City via a specially constructed 1.5 km tunnel from his cell to a nearby house

Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán
in American custody after being extradited to the United States

2018  Oldest stone tools outside Africa discovered in Lantian country, western China, estimated 2.12 million years old made by hominins