Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 11

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  Amedeo Avogadro
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  Aaron Burr
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  Alexander Hamilton
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  Hamilton–Burr dueling pistols
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  Philippe Pétain
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  Ratko Mladić
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  Jacques Necker
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  Harper Lee
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  Jean-Louis Pons
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  Bombardment of Alexandria
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  Sculpture of Zheng He
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  Woodblock print of Zheng He's ships
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  Statue of Yagan
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  Robert F. Kennedy (Triborough) Bridge
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  Leicester balloon riot, 1864
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  Depiction of Michael I Rangabe (centre)

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Blurb	Reason
Day of the Flemish Community of Belgium;	refimprove
; Naadam begins in Mongolia	refimprove section
1804 – U.S. vice president Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton during a duel in Weehawken, New Jersey.	refimprove section
1811 – Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro published a hypothesis on the molecular content of gases, now known as Avogadro's law.	Avogadro: Needs more footnotes; Avogadro's law: date not in article
1882 – Anglo-Egyptian War: British naval forces began their bombardment of Alexandria against Urabi forces.	unreferenced sections
1889 – Tijuana, the westernmost city in Mexico, was founded.	cleanup section
1893 – Japanese entrepreneur and inventor Kokichi Mikimoto first created the hemispherical cultured pearl.	refimprove section, date not cited
1921 – The Irish War of Independence ended with a truce, resulting in negotiations that eventually led to the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the establishment of the Irish Free State.	refimprove section
1940 – French World Template:Nowrap veteran Philippe Pétain became Chief of State of Vichy France.	unreferenced sections
1943 – The bloodiest day of Volhynia genocide took place, where units of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army attacked and burned various Polish villages in the Volhynia region of present-day Ukraine	8 citation needed tags plus other uncited bits
1947 – The passenger ship Exodus departed France with the intent of taking Jewish emigrants to British-controlled Palestine.	refimprove
1957 – Prince Karīm al-Hussaynī succeeded Sultan Mahommed Shah as the Aga Khan, becoming the 49th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims.	unreferenced section (Ancestry)
1978 – A tanker truck loaded with 23 tons of highly flammable liquid propylene caught fire and exploded in Alcanar, Spain, killing 217 people and severely burning 200 others.	refimprove
1990 – The Oka Crisis, a 77-day land dispute between a group of Mohawk people and the Canadian town of Oka, Quebec, began.	refimprove
1995 – Bosnian Genocide: Bosnian Serb forces began the Srebrenica massacre in the region of Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, eventually killing an estimated total of 8,000 Bosniaks.	undue weight
2006 – A series of seven bombs exploded over a period of 11 minutes on the Suburban Railway in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, killing 209 people and injuring over 700 others.	refimprove sections
Pedro Rodríguez |d|1971	refimprove section
Annie Armstrong |b|1850|	Date not cited
John Spencer |d|2006	Recent TFA on February 18, 2024

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• 813 – Byzantine emperor Michael I Rangabe (depicted), under threat by conspiracies, abdicated in favor of his general Leo the Armenian, and became a monk.
• 1302 – Franco-Flemish War: Flemish infantry defeated a large French army near Kortrijk at the Battle of the Golden Spurs.
• 1405 – An expeditionary fleet led by Zheng He set sail for foreign regions of the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean, marking the start of Ming China's treasure voyages.
• 1789 – French Revolution: Jacques Necker was dismissed as Director-General of Finances of France, sparking public demonstrations in Paris that led to the storming of the Bastille.
• 1792 – The Belfast Harp Festival, an early event in the Gaelic revival, began at the Assembly Rooms.
• 1801 – French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons co-discovered the first of his 37 comets, more than any other person in history.
• 1846 – British soldier Frederick John White died after a flogging, leading to a campaign to end the practice in the British Army.
• 1848 – Waterloo Bridge Station, which later became Britain's busiest railway station by passenger usage, was opened by the London and South Western Railway.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate forces under Jubal Early began an unsuccessful attempt to capture Washington, D.C..
• 1864 – A riot broke out in Leicester, England, at the failed launching of a gas balloon (pictured).
• 1914 – The US Navy launched the Template:USS as its first Standard-type battleship.
• 1928 – Archaeologist Ivan Borkovský discovered a medieval skeleton at Prague Castle; competing factions claimed the skeleton as Germanic or Slavic in origin.
• 1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee featuring themes of racial injustice and the loss of innocence in the Deep South of America, was published.
• 2010 – The Islamist militia group Al-Shabaab carried out multiple suicide bombings in Kampala, Uganda, killing 74 people and injuring 85 others.
• 2011 – An explosion at the Evangelos Florakis Naval Base killed 13 people, including the head of the Cyprus Navy.
• Born/died: | Bardaisan |b|154| Rudolph II of Burgundy |d|937| Robert II, Count of Artois |d|1302| Nicole Oresme |d|1382| Thomas Bowdler |b|1754| Matthew McCauley |b|1850| Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine |b|1866| Eugenia Tadolini |d|1872| H. M. Brock|b|1875| Boris Grigoriev |b|1886| Kitty O'Brien Joyner|b|1916| Nicolai Gedda |b|1925| Balaji Sadasivan |b|1955| Eusebia Cosme |d|1976| Alessia Cara |b|1996| Bronwyn Oliver |d|2006|

July 11: Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Genocide in Poland Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1833 – Yagan, a Noongar warrior wanted for leading attacks on British colonists in Western Australia, was killed, becoming a symbol of the unjust and sometimes brutal treatment of indigenous Australians by colonial settlers.
• 1936 – New York City's Triborough Bridge, the "biggest traffic machine ever built", opened to traffic.
• 1982 – Italy defeated West Germany 3–1 to win their third FIFA World Cup title.
• 1991 – Shortly after taking off from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 caught fire and crashed, killing all 261 people on board.
• 2010 – Spain defeated the Netherlands 1–0 after extra time to win their first FIFA World Cup title (pictured lifting the trophy).