July 11
is the 192nd day (193rd in
leap years) of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 173 days remaining.
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1302 -
Battle of the Golden Spurs (
Guldensporenslag in
Dutch) - a coalition around the
Flemish cities defeats the king of
France's huge knightly army.
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1346 -
Charles IV of
Luxembourg elected
emperor of the
Holy Roman Empire.
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1405 -
Chinese fleet commander
Zheng He set sail to explore the world for the first time.
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1576 -
Martin Frobisher sights
Greenland.
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1616 -
Samuel de Champlain returns to
Quebec.
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1735 - Mathematical calculations suggest it was on this day that
Pluto moved from the ninth to the eighth most distant planet from the Sun for the last time before
1979.
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1740 -
Pogrom:
Jews are expelled from
Little Russia.
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1750 -
Halifax, Nova Scotia almost completely destroyed by fire.
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1776 -
Captain James Cook begins third voyage.
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1789 -
Jacques Necker dismissed as
Finance Minister for
France sparking the storming of the
Bastille.
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1796 - The
U.S. takes possession of
Detroit from
Great Britain under terms of the
Jay Treaty.
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1798 - The
United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the
American Revolutionary War.
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1804 -
Hamilton-Burr duel; in which
Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr kills
Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
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1811 -
Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoir about
molecular content of gases.
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1848 - The
Waterloo railway station in
London opens.
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1859 -
A Tale Of Two Cities by
Charles Dickens is published.
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1864 -
American Civil War:
Confederate forces attempt an invasion of
Washington, D.C.*
1889 -
Tijuana,
Mexico was founded.
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1893 - The first cultured
pearl is obtained by
Kokichi Mikimoto.
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1895 - The brothers
Lumière show
film for scientists.
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1897 -
Salomon August Andrée leaves
Spitsbergen to try to reach the
North pole by
balloon. He later crashes and dies.
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1914 -
Babe Ruth debuts in
Major league baseball.
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1919 - Eight-hour working day and free
Sunday made into law in the
Netherlands.
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1921 - Truce called in the
Irish War of Independence; see
Irish calendar.
*1921 - Former
US President William Howard Taft sworn in as 10th
Chief Justice of the United States, becoming the only person to ever be both
President and
Chief Justice.
*1921 -
Mongolia becomes independent (from
China).
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1930 -
Donald Bradman scored 309 runs in a day (still a Test record), on his way to his highest Test score of 334, against England.
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1936 -
Triborough Bridge in
New York City is opened to traffic.
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1940 -
World War II:
Vichy France regime formally established.
Henri Philippe Pétain becomes
Prime Minister of France.
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1943 -
World War II:
Allied invasion of Sicily -
German troops launch a counter-attack on
Allied forces in
Sicily.
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1944 -
Franklin D. Roosevelt says he will run for a fourth term as
President of the United States.
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1950 -
Pakistan joins the
International Monetary Fund (
IMF) and the
International Bank.
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1955 - The phrase
In God We Trust is added to all
US currency.
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1957 -
Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherites the office of
Imamat as the 49th
Imam of
Shia Imami Ismaili worldwide, after the passing away of
Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III.
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1960 -
To Kill a Mockingbird by
Harper Lee is first published.
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1962 - First transatlantic
satellite television transmission.
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1971 -
Copper mines in
Chile nationalised.
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1973 - A
Brazilian
Boeing 707 crashes near
Paris on approach to
Orly Airport, killing 123 people of the 134 on-board.
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1975 -
Chinese archeologists discover a large burial site with 6,000 clay statutes of warriors from
221 BC.
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1977 -
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is posthumously awarded the
Medal of Freedom.
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1978 - A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in
Tarragona,
Spain killing 216 tourists.
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1979 - The space station
Skylab returns to
Earth.
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1982 -
Italy defeats
West Germany 3-1, to win the
FIFA World Cup for the third time in
Spain.
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1983 - A
Boeing 727 crashes into hilly terrain after a tail strike in
Cuenca,
Ecuador, claiming 119 lives.
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1985 -
Nolan Ryan of the
Houston Astros becomes the first
pitcher to reach record 4,000 career
strike outs.
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1987 - According to the
United Nations, the world population crosses the 5,000,000,000 mark.
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1991 - A
Nationair DC-8 crashed during an emergency landing at
Jeddah,
Saudi Arabia, killing 261. The
Canadian charter was ferrying
Hajj pilgrims on behalf of
Nigeria Airways.
*1991 - Total
solar eclipse in
Hawaii.
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1995 - Full diplomatic relations are established between the
United States and
Vietnam.
*1995 -
Srebrenica Genocide:
Serb army from
Yugoslavia and
Bosnia, capture the
Bosniak town of
Srebrenica. More than eight thousands inhabitants are murdered. It is generally regarded to be the most horrific event in recent
European history.
*1995 - A
Cubana de Aviacion Antonov An-24 crashes into the
Caribbean off southeast
Cuba killing 44 people.
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2000 - Serial killer
Michael Swango pleads guilty to poisoning several of his patients and is sentenced to life in prison without parole.
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2003 -
Lahore-
Delhi bus service resumed after suspension of 18 months.
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2004 -
CIA Director George Tenet leaves his position at the
CIA.
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2006 -
Microsoft's official support of
Windows 98 and
Windows Me ends.
*2006 -
A series of terrorist bomb blasts rock commuter trains in
Mumbai (
Bombay),
India, killing over 200 people.
*2006 -
Liu Xiang sets a new
world record in the
110 metres hurdles in
Lausanne with a time of 12.88 s
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1274 -
Robert the Bruce,
King of Scotland (d.
1329)
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1366 -
Anne of Bohemia, queen of
Richard II of England (d.
1394)
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1561 -
Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet (d.
1627)
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1603 -
Kenelm Digby, English privateer (d.
1665)
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1628 -
Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (d.
1701)
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1657 - King
Frederick I of Prussia (d.
1713)
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1662 -
Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (d.
1726)
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1723 -
Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer (d.
1799)
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1754 -
Thomas Bowdler, English physican and censor (d.
1825)
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1767 -
John Quincy Adams, 6th
President of the United States (d.
1848)
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1826 -
Alexander Afanasyev, Russian folklorist (d.
1871)
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1844 - King
Peter I of Serbia (d.
1921)
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1857 -
Alfred Binet, French psychologist (d.
1911)
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1864 -
Petar Danov, Bulgarian spiritual teacher (d.
1944)
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1886 -
Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (d.
1939)
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1897 -
Eugene "Bull" Connor, sheriff of Birmingham, Alabama (d.
1973)
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1899 -
E. B. White, American writer (d.
1985)
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1906 -
Herbert Wehner, German politician (d.
1990)
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1910 -
Irene Hervey, American actress (d.
1998)
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1913 -
Cordwainer Smith, American writer (d.
1966)
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1916 -
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov, Russian physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2002)
* 1916 -
Gough Whitlam, 21st
Prime Minister of Australia*
1921 -
Ilse Werner, Dutch-born actress
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1924 -
Brett Somers, Canadian actress
* 1924 -
César Lattes, Brazilian physicist (d.
2005)
* 1924 -
Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (d.
1971)
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1925 -
Nicolai Gedda, Swedish tenor
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1926 -
Frederick Buechner, American author
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1929 -
Hermann Prey, German baritone (d.
1998)
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1930 -
Harold Bloom, American literary critic
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1931 -
Tab Hunter, American actor
* 1931 -
Tullio Regge, Italian physicist
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1934 -
Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer
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1935 -
Oliver Napier, Northern Irish politician
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1945 -
Patrick Joseph McGrath,
Roman Catholic Bishop of San Jose, California
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1949 -
Liona Boyd, English-born guitarist
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1950 -
Bruce McGill, American actor
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1954 -
Butch Reed, Professional wrestler
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1956 -
Sela Ward, American actress
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1957 -
Peter Murphy, British musician (
Bauhaus)
* 1957 -
Michael Rose, Jamaican musician (
Black Uhuru)
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1958 -
Hugo Sánchez, Mexican footballer
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1959 -
Richie Sambora, American guitarist (
Bon Jovi)
* 1959 -
Suzanne Vega, American singer
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1963 -
Al MacInnis, Canadian
ice hockey player
* 1963 -
Lisa Rinna, American actress
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1965 -
Ernesto Hoost, Dutch kickboxer
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1968 -
Esera Tuaolo, American football player
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1969 -
David Tao, Taiwanese singer-songwriter
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1972 -
Michael Rosenbaum, American actor
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1973 -
Konstantinos Kenteris, Greek athlete
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1974 -
Hermann Hreidarsson, Icelandic footballer
* 1974 -
Lil' Kim, American rapper
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1976 -
Eduardo Nájera, Mexican-born basketball player
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1981 -
Andre Johnson, NFL Wide Receiver
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1982 -
Chris Cooley, American football player
* 1982 -
Lil Zane, American rapper/actor
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1983 -
Marie Serneholt, Swedish musician (
A*Teens)
* 1983 -
Kelly Poon, Singapore singer
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1984 -
Tanith Belbin, Canadian ice dancer
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472 -
Anthemius, Emperor of the Western Roman Empire
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937 - King
Rudolph II of Burgundy*
969 -
Olga of Kiev*
1174 - King
Amalric I of Jerusalem (b.
1136)
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1302 -
Robert II of Artois, French soldier (b.
1250)
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1535 - Elector
Joachim I of Brandenburg (b.
1484)
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1581 -
Peder Skram, Danish senator and naval hero
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1665 -
Kenelm Digby, English privateer (b.
1603)
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1679 -
William Chamberlayne, English poet (b.
1619)
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1688 -
Narai, King of Siam
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1766 -
Elizabeth Farnese, wife of
Philip V of Spain (b.
1692)
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1774 -
Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Irish-born New York pioneer
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1775 -
Simon Boerum, American Continental Congressman (b.
1724)
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1797 -
Ienăchiţă Văcărescu, Wallachian writer (b.
1740)
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1804 -
Alexander Hamilton, American politician, deulist (b.
1755)
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1806 -
James Smith, American signer of the Declaration of Indpendence
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1844 -
Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (b.
1800)
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1920 - Empress
Eugénie de Montijo of France (b.
1826)
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1937 -
George Gershwin, American composer (b.
1898)
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1959 -
Charlie Parker, English cricketer (b.
1882)
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1966 -
Delmore Schwartz, American Poet (b.
1913)
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1971 -
John W. Campbell, American writer and editor (b.
1910)
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1974 -
Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1891)
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1987 -
Avi Ran, Israeli footballer (b.
1963)
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1989 - Sir
Laurence Olivier, English actor (b.
1907)
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1994 -
Gary Kildall, American computer programmer (b.
1942)
* 1994 -
Savannah American actress (b.
1970)
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1999 -
Helen Forrest, American singer (b.
1917)
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2000 -
Pedro Mir, Dominican poet (b.
1913)
* 2000 -
Robert Runcie, 102nd
Archbishop of Canterbury (b.
1921)
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2001 -
Herman Brood, Dutch singer and artist (suicide) (b.
1946)
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2004 -
Laurance Rockefeller, American conservationist and philanthropist (b.
1910)
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2005 -
Gretchen Franklin, English actress (b.
1911)
* 2005 -
Frances Langford, American actress and singer (b.
1914)
* 2005 -
Shinya Hashimoto, Japanese wrestler (b.
1965)
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2006 -
Barnard Hughes, American actor (b.
1915)
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2006 -
John Spencer, Snooker Player (b.
1935)
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2006 -
Ross M. Lence, American political scientist (b.
1943)
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United Nations -
World Population Day.
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Flanders, region in
Belgium (not a public holiday) -
Flemish Day (
1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs).
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Ireland -
National Day of Commemoration held on nearest
Sunday to this date (see
Irish calendar).
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Mongolia -
Naadam Holiday.
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China -
China National Maritime Day.
*Feast Day of
Saint Olga (first
Russian
Saint).
*Feast Day of
Saint Benedict (founder of the
Benedictine Order)
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United States: Free
Slurpee at
7-Eleven (most locations do this - get a free 7.11oz Slurpee on 7-11).
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Bonfire night in
Northern Ireland, precursor to
The_Twelfth.
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