Themes
of Past World Population Day
2010 - Be Counted: Say What You Need
2009 - Fight Poverty: Educate Girls
2008 - Plan Your Family, Plan Your Future
2007 - Men at Work
2006 - Being Young is Tough
2005 - Equality Empowers
2004 - ICPD at 10
2003 - 1,000,000,000 adolescents
Events
472
– After being besieged in Rome by his own
generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius
is captured in the Old St. Peter's Basilica
and put to death.
911 – Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte
between Charles the Simple and Rollo of
Normandy.
1302 – Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag
in Dutch) – a coalition around the Flemish
cities defeats the king of France's royal
army.
1346 – Charles IV of Luxembourg is elected
emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1405 – Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to
explore the world for the first time.
1476 – Giuliano della Rovere is appointed
bishop of Coutances.
1576 – Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.
1616 – Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
1735 – Mathematical calculations suggest
that it is on this day that dwarf planet
Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune
for the last time before 1979.
1740 – Pogrom: Jews are expelled from Little
Russia.
1750 – Halifax, Nova Scotia is almost completely
destroyed by fire.
1776 – Captain James Cook begins his third
voyage.
1789 – Jacques Necker is dismissed as France's
Finance Minister sparking the Storming of
the Bastille.
1796 – The United States takes possession
of Detroit from Great Britain under terms
of the Jay Treaty.
1798 – The United States Marine Corps is
re-established; they had been disbanded
after the American Revolutionary War.
1801 – French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons
made his first comet discovery. In the next
27 years he discovered another 36 comets,
more than any other person in history.
1804 – A duel occurs in which the Vice President
of the United States Aaron Burr mortally
wounds former Secretary of the Treasury
Alexander Hamilton.
1833 – Noongar Australian aboriginal warrior
Yagan, wanted for the murder of white colonists
in Western Australia, is killed.
1848 – Waterloo railway station in London
opens.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort
Stevens; Confederate forces attempt to invade
Washington, D.C..
1882 – The British Mediterranean fleet begins
the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as
part of the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
1889 – Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.
1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained
by Kokichi Mikimoto.
1893 – A revolution led by the liberal general
and politician, José Santos Zelaya, takes
over state power in Nicaragua.
1895 – The Lumière brothers demonstrate
film technology to scientists.
1897 – Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen
to attempt to reach the North pole by balloon.
He later crashes and dies.
1906 – The Gillette-Brown murder inspires
Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
1914 – Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major
league baseball.
1919 – The eight-hour working day and free
Sunday become law in the Netherlands.
1920 – In the East Prussian plebiscite the
local populace decides to remain with Weimar
Germany
1921 – A truce is called in the Irish War
of Independence; see Irish calendar.
1921 – Former U.S. President William Howard
Taft is sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of
the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only
person to ever be both President and Chief
Justice.
1921 – The Red Army captures Mongolia from
the White Army and establishes the Mongolian
People's Republic.
1922 – The Hollywood Bowl opens.
1930 – Australian cricketer Don Bradman
scores a world record 309 runs in one day,
on his way to the highest individual Test
innings of 334, during a Test match against
England.
1936 – The Triborough Bridge in New York
City is opened to traffic.
1940 – World War II: Vichy France regime
is formally established. Henri Philippe
Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France.
1943 – Massacres of Poles in Volhynia.
1943 – World War II: Allied invasion of
Sicily – German and Italian troops launch
a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.
1947 – The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine
from France.
1950 – Pakistan joins the International
Monetary Fund and the International Bank.
1957 – Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV
inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th
Imam of Shia Imami Ismaili worldwide, after
the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga
Khan III.
1960 – Independence of Benin, Burkina Faso
and Niger.
1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
is first published.
1960 – Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga
breaks away from the Democratic Republic
of the Congo.
1962 – First transatlantic satellite television
transmission.
1971 – Copper mines in Chile are nationalized.
1972 – The first game of the World Chess
Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby
Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky
starts.
1973 – Varig Flight 820 crashes near Paris
on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123
of the 134 on-board.
1977 – Martin Luther King Jr. is posthumously
awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
1978 – Los Alfaques Disaster: A truck carrying
liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal
campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216
tourists.
1979 – America's first space station, Skylab,
is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's
atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
1983 – A Boeing 737 crashes into hilly terrain
after a tail strike in Cuenca, Ecuador,
claiming 119 lives.
1990 – Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute
in Quebec, Canada begins.
1991 – A Nationair DC-8 crashes during an
emergency landing at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia,
killing 261.
1995 – A Cubana de Aviación Antonov An-24
crashes into the Caribbean off southeast
Cuba killing 44 people.
2006 – 209 people are killed in a series
of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
Holidays
and observances
Bonfire
Night, precursor to The Twelfth. (Northern
Ireland)
China National Maritime Day (People's Republic
of China)
Christian Feast Day:
Benedict of Nursia
Olga of Kiev
July 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day of the Flemish Community (Flemish Community
of Belgium)
Gospel Day (Kiribati)
Imamat Day (Ismailism)
National Day of Commemoration, held on the
nearest Sunday to this date. (Ireland)
The first day of Naadam, also known as Revolution
Day (Mongolia)
World Population Day (International)
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