11 July History
- 1302 - An army of French knights, led by the Count of Artois, is routed by Flemish pikemen.
- 1346 - Charles IV of Luxembourg is elected Holy Roman Emperor in Germany.
- 1533 - Henry VIII is excommunicated from the Catholic Church by Pope Clement VII.
- 1708 - The French are defeated at Oudenarde, Malplaquet, in the Netherlands by the Duke of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy.
- 1786 - Morocco agrees to stop attacking American ships in the Mediterranean for a payment of $10,000.
- 1799 - An Anglo-Turkish armada bombards Napoleon Bonaparte's troops in Alexandria to no avail.
- 1804 - Alexander Hamilton is mortally wounded by Aaron Burr in a duel.
- 1862 - President Abraham Lincoln appoints General Henry Halleck as general in chief of the Federal army.
- 1942 - In the longest bombing raid of World War II, 1,750 British Lancaster bombers attack the Polish port of Danzig.
- 1972 - American forces break the 95-day siege at An Loc in Vietnam.
- 1975 - Archaeologists unearth an army of 8,000 life-size clay figures created more than 2,000 years ago for the Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi.
- 1995 - Full diplomatic relations are established between the United States and Vietnam.
11 July Birthdays
- 1274 - Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (1306-1329).
- 1767 - John Quincy Adams, Sixth President of the United States (1825-1829).
- 1838 - John Wanamaker, U.S. merchant, founder of one of the first American department stores.
- 1888 - Bartomeo Vanzetti, anarchist, executed with Nicola Sacco.
- 1899 - E.B. White, author (Charlotte's Web).
- 1927 - Theodore H. Maiman, physicist.