11 Julie

The **11t o Julie** is the 192t day o the year (193t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 173 days ti come.

## Events

* 1502 - A hurricane devastates the Caribbean island o Hispaniola, killin 500 fowk.
* 1735 - Pluto muives oot o the orbit o Neptune.
* 1776 - James Cook stairts his third voyage.
* 1789 - Louis XVI o Fraunce fires his finance meenister Jacques Necker.
* 1804 - US Vice Preses Aaron Burr shuits Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
* 1810 - Macquarie Island in the soothwast Paceefic Ocean is discovered, an named efter Lachlan Macquarie, a Scots govrenor o New Sooth Wales.
* 1848 - Lunnon's Waterloo Railway Station opens.
* 1889 - The ceety o Tijuana in Northwastren Mexico is foondit.
* 1905 - 119 fowk are kilt in a splosion at the "National" colliery in Rhondda Cynon Taf, sooth Wales.
* 1921 - Truce in Ireland's War o Unthirldom.
* 1940 - The Vichy Regime in Fraunce is established.
* 1943 - Warld War II: German an Italian forces counter-attack the Allies in Sicily.
* 1960 - The novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" bi Harper Lee is published.
* 1966 - The 1966 FIFA Warld Cup in Ingland stairts.
* 1971 - Naitionalisation o copper mines in Chile.
* 1972 - The warld chess championship in Reykjavik atween Boris Spassky an Bobby Fischer stairts.
* 1978 - Los Alfaques Disaster: A truck carryin liquid gas splodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain, killin 216 tourists.
* 1979 - The Skylab spacecraft breaks up in the Yird's atmosphere.
* 1982 - Italy defeats Wast Germany 3-1 tae win the FIFA Warld Cup in Spain.
* 1987 - The warld population offeecially reaches 5 billion.
* 1991 - Nigerian Airways Flicht 2120 crashes shortly efter tak-aff frae Jeddah, Saudi Arabie, killin 261 fowk.
* 1991 - A total solar eclipse is seen ower Hawaii, the wastren Paceefic Ocean, Mexico an Central an Sooth Americae.
* 1995 - Massacre at Srebrenica, Bosnie an Herzegovinae.
* 2006 - Ower 200 fowk are kilt in multiple bomb attacks on trains in Mumbai, Indie.
* 2010 - Bomb attacks in Kampala, Uganda, kill 74 fowk.
* 2010 - A total solar eclipse is seen ower the soothren Paceefic Ocean, incluidin Easter Island.
* 2010 - Spain defeats the Netherlands 1-0 in extra time tae win the 2010 FIFA Warld Cup in Sooth Africae.
* 2012 - The discovery o Styx, a muin o Pluto, is propaled.
* 2016 - Andrea Leadsom withdraws frae the race for Conservative leader an Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick, puttin Theresa May intae the poseetion tae tak ower frae David Cameron on 13 Julie.

## Births

* 1274 - Robert the Bruce, Keeng o Scots (d. 1329)
* 1657 - Frederick I o Proushie (d. 1713)
* 1664 - James Ogilvy, 4t Yerl o Findlater, Scots politeecian (d. 1730)
* 1767 - John Quincy Adams, 6t Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1848)
* 1774 - Robert Jameson, Scots naituralist an meeneralogist (d. 1854)
* 1857 - David Prain, Scots medicinar an botanist (d. 1944)
* 1899 - E. B. White, American writer (d. 1985)
* 1916 - Alexander Prokhorov, Roushie pheesicist (d. 2002)
* 1916 - Gough Whitlam, Prime Meenister o Australie (d. 2014)
* 1920 - Yul Brynner, Roushie-American actor (d. 1985)
* 1934 - Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer
* 1957 - Johann Lamont, Scots politeecian
* 1959 - Richie Sambora, American muisicker
* 1959 - Suzanne Vega, American sangster
* 1976 - Lil' Kim, American rapper, sangster an actress
* 1986 - Yoann Gourcuff, French fitbawer
* 1986 - Ian Cathro, Scots fitbaw coach
* 1990 - Mona Barthel, German tennis player
* 1990 - Caroline Wozniacki, Dens tennis player
* 1994 - Nina Nesbitt, Scots sangster
* 1996 - Alessia Cara, Canadian sangster
* 1996 - Tom Walsh, Scots fitbawer

## Daiths
* 1937 - George Gershwin, American componer (b. 1898)
* 1989 - Laurence Olivier, Inglis actor (b. 1907)
* 2007 - Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady o the Unitit States (b. 1912)
* 2012 - Joe McBride, Scots fitbawer (b. 1938)
* 2015 - Satoru Iwata, Japanese CEO o Nintendo (b. 1959)

## Halidays

* First Day o Naadam (Mongolie)
* Eleventh Nicht (Northren Ireland)
* Day o the Flemish Community (Belgium)
* Warld Population Day