Historical Events on July 11

138 Antoninus Pius succeeds Hadrian as Emperor of Rome

1533 Pope Clement VII excommunicates England's King Henry VIII

1616 Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.

1663 Oxford mathematician John Wallis gives a lecture on Euclid’s parallel postulate, first Western attempt to derive the parallel postulate as a theorem

1690 Battle of Drogheda Boyne (William III beats deposed James II)

1776 Captain James Cook begins his third voyage

1789 French King Louis XVI dismisses finance minister Jacques Necker, sparking riots in Paris

1804 Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel

1811 Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoir on the molecular content of gases

1818 English poet John Keats writes "In the Cottage Where Burns is Born", "Lines Written in the Highlands", and "Gadfly"

1892 US Patent Office says Joseph Swan rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp

1896 Wilfrid Laurier sworn in as the 7th Prime Minister of Canada

1900 Charlotte Cooper beats Hélène Prévost to become the 1st female Olympic tennis champion and the 1st individual female Olympic champion in any sport

1902 British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury resigns

1905 Black intellectuals and activists lead by W.E.B. Du Bois organize the civil rights Niagara Movement

1914 Future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth makes his MLB debut as a pitcher for Boston Red Sox; earns 4-3 win against the Cleveland Naps at Fenway Park

1925 Queen Wilhelmina names Hendrikus Colijn of the Anti-Revolutionary Party head of government

1930 21 year old Australian cricket super-batsman Don Bradman is 105 at lunch, 220 at tea, and 309 at stumps on the first day in 3rd Test vs England at Leeds; goes on to 334

1934 FDR became 1st US President to travel through Panama Canal

1940 Marshall Philippe Pétain, French hero of World War I, becomes head of the Vichy collaborationist government of France

1943 Counter attack by Hermann Goering's Armoured division in Sicily

1950 17th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 in 14 at Comiskey Park, Chic Ted Williams breaks his elbow; 1st extra inning All Star Game

1952 General Eisenhower nominated as Republican US presidential candidate

1960 "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee is first published by J. B. Lippincott & Co.

1965 Israeli Mapai-party nominates David Ben-Gurion

1967 Kenny Rogers forms 1st Edition

1969 David Bowie releases the single "Space Oddity" 9 days before Apollo 11 lands on the moon

1977 US Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Rev Martin Luther King Jr

1978 All star MVP: Steve Garvey (LA Dodgers) collects his second award

1981 Sebastian Coe of UK sets record for 1K (2:12.18)

1985 Astros' Nolan Ryan, 1st to strike out 4000 (Mets' Danny Heep)

1988 Mike Tyson hires Donald Trump as an advisor

1992 Presidential candidate Ross Perot at NAACP speech calls them "you people"

1993 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Cherry Hills CC: Jack Nicklaus wins by 1 stroke ahead of Tom Weiskopf for his second US Senior title

1995 Shaggy releases his third studio album "Bombastic" (Grammy Award Best Reggae Album)

2004 Canadian Open Women's Golf, Legends on the Niagara GC: Meg Mallon wins by 4 strokes from Beth Daniel

2007 "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", the 5th film based on the books by J. K. Rowling is released

2012 20th ESPY Awards: LeBron James, Brittney Griner win

2012 Steve Nash is traded by the Phoenix Suns to the Los Angeles Lakers

2015 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Serena Williams becomes oldest winner in Open era (33) beating Garbiñe Muguruza 6-4, 6-4