Today in History for 11th July 2025

Historical Events

1616 - Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec
1859 - Big Ben's second and current bell first chimes inside the Clock Tower
1864 - Confederate forces led by General Jubal Early begin invasion of Washington, D.C. with the Battle of Fort Stevens
1915 - German cruiser Königsberg sinks off Dar-es-Salam
1995 - Shaggy releases his third studio album "Bombastic" (Grammy Award Best Reggae Album)

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Famous Birthdays

1826 - Alexander Afanasyev, Russian ethnographer and folklorist, born in Boguchar, Voronezh Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1871)
1909 - Greta Schoon, German poet, and kindergarten teacher, born in Spetzerfehn, Germany (d. 1991)
1924 - Claus Bremer, German dramatist, born in Hamburg (d. 1996)
1929 - David Kelly, Irish actor (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - "Grandpa Joe";, Fawlty Towers), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 2012)
1990 - Caroline Wozniacki, Danish tennis player (Australian Open 2018), born in Odense, Denmark

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Famous Deaths

1302 - Robert II, Count of Artois and French soldier, dies in the Battle of the Golden Spurs at 51
1593 - Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1st surrealist painter, dies (birth date unkn)
1874 - Xavier de Mérode, Belgium minister to the Pope in Rome, dies at 54
1998 - Lilí Álvarez, Spanish tennis player (Wimbledon runner-up 1926-28), dies at 93
2022 - Víctor Benítez, Peruvian soccer centre-back / defensive midfielder (11 caps; AC Milan, Roma, Inter Milan, Boca Juniors), dies at 86

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