11 July
Notable Births
Amad Diallo
b. 2002
Ivorian footballer (born 2002)
Ryan Rolison
b. 1997
American baseball player (born 1997)
Alessia Cara
b. 1996
Canadian singer and songwriter (born 1996)
Joey Bosa
b. 1995
American football player (born 1995)
Anthony Milford
b. 1994
Samoa international rugby league footballer
Nina Nesbitt
b. 1994
British singer (born 1994)
Lucas Ocampos
b. 1994
Argentine footballer (born 1994)
Rebecca Bross
b. 1993
American artistic gymnast
Mohamed Elneny
b. 1992
Egyptian footballer (born 1992)
Mona Barthel
b. 1990
German tennis player (born 1993)
Connor Paolo
b. 1990
American actor (born 1990)
Adam Jezierski
b. 1990
Polish-Spanish actor
Patrick Peterson
b. 1990
American football player (born 1990)
Caroline Wozniacki
b. 1990
Danish tennis player (born 1990)
Tobias Sana
b. 1989
Swedish footballer (born 1989)
Travis Waddell
b. 1989
Australian rugby league footballer
Shimanoumi Kōyō
b. 1989
Japanese sumo wrestler
Étienne Capoue
b. 1988
French footballer (born 1988)
Raúl García (footballer, born 1986)
b. 1986
Spanish footballer
Rod Strickland
b. 1966
American basketball player and coach (born 1966)
Notable Deaths
Martin Cruz Smith
d. 2025
American writer (1942–2025)
Shelley Duvall
d. 2024
American actress and producer (1949–2024)
Monte Kiffin
d. 2024
American football coach (1940–2024)
Milan Kundera
d. 2023
Czech and French novelist (1929–2023)
Charlie Robinson (actor)
d. 2021
American actor (1945–2021)
Renée Simonot
d. 2021
French actress and voice artist (1911–2021)
Marc Angelucci
d. 2020
American lawyer and men's rights activist
Frank Bolling
d. 2020
American baseball player (1931–2020)
Giacomo Biffi
d. 2015
Catholic cardinal (1928–2015)
Satoru Iwata
d. 2015
Japanese video game executive (1959–2015)
André Leysen
d. 2015
Charlie Haden
d. 2014
American musician and educator (1937–2014)
Carin Mannheimer
d. 2014
Swedish author, dramatist and director (1934–2014)
Bill McGill
d. 2014
American basketball player (1939–2014)
Tommy Ramone
d. 2014
American drummer (1949–2014)
John Seigenthaler
d. 2014
American journalist, writer, and political figure (1927–2014)
Randall Stout
d. 2014
American architect
Emik Avakian
d. 2013
Armenian American inventor
Egbert Brieskorn
d. 2013
German mathematician (1936–2013)
Eugene Parks Wilkinson
d. 2013
US Navy officer
On This Day in History
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2021
Virgin Galactic launches its founder, Richard Branson, into space, the first company ever to do so.
Virgin Galactic
2015
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escapes from the maximum security Altiplano prison in Mexico, his second escape.
El Chapo
2011
Ninety-eight containers of explosives self-detonate killing 13 people in Zygi, Cyprus.
Evangelos Florakis Naval Base explosion
2010
The Islamist militia group Al-Shabaab carries out multiple suicide bombings in Kampala, Uganda, killing 74 people and injuring 85 others.
Islamism
2010
In Johannesburg, Spain defeat the Netherlands 1–0 after extra time to win their first FIFA World Cup title.
Spain national football team
2006
Mumbai train bombings: 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
2006 Mumbai train bombings
1995
Yugoslav Wars: Srebrenica massacre begins, lasting until 22 July.
Yugoslav Wars
1991
Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 crashes in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 261 passengers and crew on board.
Nigeria Airways Flight 2120
1990
Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec begins.
Oka Crisis
1983
A TAME airline Boeing 737-200 crashes near Cuenca, Ecuador, killing all 119 passengers and crew on board.
TAME
1982
Italy defeats West Germany 3–1 to win the FIFA World Cup.
Italy national football team
1979
America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
Skylab
1978
Los Alfaques disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.
Los Alfaques disaster
1977
Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated in 1968, is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Martin Luther King Jr.
1973
Varig Flight 820 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 of the 134 on board. In response, the FAA bans smoking in airplane lavatories.
Varig Flight 820
1972
The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.
World Chess Championship 1972
1971
The nationalization of all large copper mines in Chile is completed.
Chilean nationalization of copper
1962
First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
Satellite television
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.
Apollo program
1960
France legislates for the independence of Dahomey (later Benin), Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso) and Niger.
Republic of Dahomey