Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 11
July 11: Naadam in Mongolia begins.
- 1302 – Flemish infantry successfully halted a French invasion near Kortrijk in the Battle of the Golden Spurs.
- 1789 – French Revolution: Jacques Necker was dismissed as Director-General of Finances and ordered to leave France at once.
- 1804 – U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton (pictured) during a duel in Weehawken, New Jersey.
- 1957 – Prince Karīm al-Hussaynī succeeded Sultan Mahommed Shah as the Aga Khan, becoming the 49th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims.
- 1995 – Bosnian Genocide: Bosnian Serb forces under Ratko Mladić began the Srebrenica massacre in Potočari, Srebrenica, eventually killing an estimated total of 8,000 Bosniaks.
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