What events happened on July 11?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UN – World Population Day
🌏 International Essential Oils Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇨🇳 China – Maritime Day.
🇵🇱 Poland – National Day of Remembrance of Genocide Victims.
🇦🇷 Argentina – Bandoneon Day.
🇲🇽 Mexico – National Tree Day.
🇰🇮 Kiribati – National Culture and Elderly Day.
🇧🇪 Belgium – Flemish Community Day.
🇲🇳 Mongolia – Naadam Festival.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1302 – Battle of Kurt.
– 1405 – Zhen He set off for Africa.
– 1576 – The English expedition led by Martin Frobisher discovered Greenland.
– 1700 – The German Academy of Sciences is founded in Berlin.
– 1708 – The Battle of Oudenaarde.
– 1740 – Jews are deported from Little Russia (present-day Ukraine).
– 1874 – The incandescent lamp (Lodygin lamp) is patented in Russia.
– 1890 – The first political election in Japanese history is held.
– 1893 – Kokiti Mikimoto of Japan receives the first artificial pearl.
– 1895 – The brothers August and Louis Lumière demonstrate cinema technology.
– 1905 – The International Bowling Association is founded.
– 1919 – The 8-hour workday is introduced in the Netherlands.
– 1933 – The International Convention on Drug Control is adopted in Geneva.
– 1941 – World War II: Battle of Vitebsk.
– 1962 – The first television broadcast across the Atlantic was broadcast.
– 1975 – Life-size clay statues of 6,000 soldiers, equipped with weapons of war, were discovered in the ancient Chinese capital of Xi’an.
– 1985 – Tens of thousands of women gathered in Nairobi for the International Conference on Women.
– 1995 – Bosnian War: Serbs capture Srebrenica and massacre unarmed Muslims.
– 1995 – The United States and Vietnam restore full diplomatic relations.
– 2000 – Bashar al-Assad is elected president of Syria.
– 2006 – Microsoft stops technical support for Windows 98 and Windows ME.
– 2010 – The Spanish national football team became the World Champion for the first time in its history.
– 2014 – Rocket attack near Zelenopolye during the armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine.
– 2019 – The Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On measures to establish the TV channel “History of Uzbekistan”” was adopted.
