Page 7: Historical Events In July - 11

1960  On this day in history ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta & Niger declare independence   

1960  On July - 11 ivory Coast, Niger, Upper Volta and Dahomey all become independent   

1960  28th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, KC on July - 11.   

1961  On this day in history 30th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 in 10 at Candlestick Pk, SF   

1962  Cosmonaut Micolaev set then record longest space flight - 4 days on this day in history.   

1962  On July - 11 fred Baldasare is first to swim English Channel underwater (scuba)   

1962  The first transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I) on July - 11.   

1962  1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I) on this day in history.   

1964  Maurice Thorez, sec-general French communist party, dies at 64 on July - 11.   

1965  On July - 11 ray Collins actor (Halls of Ivy, Perry Mason), dies at 75   

1965  Ray Collins, actor (Halls of Ivy, Perry Mason), dies at 75 on July - 11.   

1966  Delmore Schwartz, US poet/critic (Shenandoah), dies at 52 on this day in history.   

1967  Canadian Pacific inaugurates first major unit train, shipping 3,700 tons of sulfuric acid from Copper Cliff to CIL in Sarnia on this day in history.   

1967  Kenny Rogers forms first Edition on July - 11.   

1967  On July - 11 the first major "unit train" movement in Canada is inaugurated by Canadian Pacific - 3,700 tons of sulphuric acid from the Copper Cliff plant of CIL nr. Sudbury to Sarnia, Ontario.   

1969  On this day in history david Bowie releases "Space Oddity"   

1969  Rolling Stones release "Honky Tonk Woman" on this day in history.   

1971  Carleton Young actor (Court of Last Resorts), dies at 64 on July - 11.   

1971  On this day in history carleton Young, actor (Court of Last Resorts), dies at 64   

1973  Isabel Randolph actress (Mrs Nester-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 83 on July - 11.   

1973  On July - 11 alexander Vasilyevich Mosolov, Russian composer (Zavod), dies at 72   

1974  House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry on July - 11.   

1974  On this day in history world Football League plays first games   

1975  Army of life-size terracotta soldiers discovered in China on this day in history.   

1975  L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2489 Suvorov on July - 11.   

1975  Kurt Pinthus, writer, dies at 89 on July - 11.   

1976  In the Panama-Colombia Border Region, The foreshock, a magnitude 6.7, was followed by a major earthquake of magnitude 7.0 four hours later. Several injured and10 houses and 1 bridge were destroyed in the area on July - 11.   

1977  On this day in history medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Rev Martin Luther King Jr   

1979  Debris from the US Skylab space station fall on Australia on July - 11.   

1979  On this day in history uS Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia & disintegrates   

1980  American hostage Richard I Queen freed by Iran on this day in history.   

1980  On this day in history peggy Knudson acttress (April-So This is Hollywood), dies at 57   

1980  Boleslaw Woytowicz, composer, dies at 80 on July - 11.   

1981  On this day in history sebastian Coe of UK sets record for 1000 m, 2 12.18   

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1274  Robert Bruce, King of Scotland (1306-29) was born on July - 11.   

1366  On this day in history birth of anne of Bohemia, consort of Richard II of England (d. 1394)   

1540  Adolf van Nassau, German son of Willem the Rich/Juliana of Stolberg was born on July - 11.   

1558  On July - 11 birth of robert Greene, Elizabethan dramatist (Friar Bacon)   

1561  Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet (d. 1627) was born on this day in history.   

1603  On July - 11 birth of kenelm Digby, English privateer (d. 1665)   

1628  Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (d. 1701) was born on July - 11.   

1657  Frederik I, King of Prussia (1701-13) was born on this day in history.   

0155  Pius I, bishop of Rome (approx 140-155)/saint/martyr, dies on this day in history.   

0472  On July - 11 death of anthemius, Emperor of the Western Roman Empire   

0937  On July - 11 death of king Rudolph II of Burgundy   

0969  On July - 11 death of olga of Kiev   

1174  On July - 11 amalrik I, [Morri], French King of Jerusalem, dies   

1183  Death of Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria on this day in history.   

1302  On this day in history jacques de Châtillon, count of Saint-Pol/gov of Flaanders, dies   

1382  Nicholas van Oresme, French philosopher/bishop of Lisieux, dies at 62 on this day in history.