Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 11

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 * 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)


 * 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 gas balloon (pictured).
 * 1928 – 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.