Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 11

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This is a list of selected July 11 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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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

Ineligible

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 War I 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

Eligible

• 1302 – Franco-Flemish War: Flemish infantry defeated a large French army near Kortrijk at the Battle of the Golden Spurs.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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..
• 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.
• 1991 – Shortly after taking off from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 caught fire and crashed, killing all 261 people on board.
• 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| 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| Balaji Sadasivan |b|1955| Eusebia Cosme |d|1976| Alessia Cara |b|1996| Bronwyn Oliver |d|2006| Lady Bird Johnson|d|2007| Satoru Iwata|d|2015|

July 11: Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Genocide in Poland (1943)

Leicester balloon riot, 1864

• 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.
• 1846 – British soldier Frederick John White died after a flogging, leading to a campaign to end the practice in the British Army.
• 1864 – A riot broke out in Leicester, England, at the failed launching of a hot air balloon (pictured).
• 1928 – Ukrainian archaeologist Ivan Borkovský discovered a medieval skeleton at Prague Castle; competing factions claimed the skeleton as Germanic or Slavic in origin.
• 1936 – New York City's Triborough Bridge, the "biggest traffic machine ever built", opened to traffic.

• Nicole Oresme (d. 1382)
• Thomas Bowdler (b. 1754)
• Eugenia Tadolini (d. 1872)
• Lady Bird Johnson (d. 2007)

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