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Events on July 11

• 1346 Charles IV of Luxembourg is elected King of the Romans in Rhens. He initially acts as a rival king to Louis the Bavarian.
• 1789 On the eve of the French Revolution, Finance Minister Jacques Necker is dismissed by King Louis XVI. This contributes to growing popular anger, which erupts on July 14 with the storming of the Bastille.
• 1804 In a duel, U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr wounds his political rival, former finance minister and U.S. Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, so badly that he dies the following day.
• 1926 Rudolf Caracciola wins the first German Grand Prix on the Berlin AVUS circuit.
• 1945 The Allied Command meets in Berlin for the first time. It exercises control over the city, which was divided into four sectors by the victorious powers.
• 1950 The constitution for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, adopted on June 6 and approved by popular vote on June 18, enters into force.
• 1966 The 1966 FIFA World Cup in England begins. In the opening match, hosts England and Uruguay draw 0:0.
• 1972 The first game of the 1972 World Chess Championship between Boris Spasski and Bobby Fischer is played. Owing to the sensational matchup, the showdown is considered the “Match of the Century.”
• 1979 The Skylab space station burns up in the Earth's atmosphere.
• 1982 Italy become football world champions with a 3:1 win over Germany in the final of the FIFA World Cup in Spain.
• 1995 Bosnian Serb troops under Ratko Mladić occupy Srebrenica, which has been declared a UN safe zone, during the Bosnian War. This is followed by the Srebrenica massacre, the worst war crime in Europe since the end of the Second World War.
• 2010 With a goal from Andrés Iniesta, the Spanish national team defeats the Netherlands in the final of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

Born on July 11

• 1888 Carl Schmitt, German constitutional scholar and philosopher
• 1903 O. E. Hasse, German actor
• 1906 Herbert Wehner, German politician
• 1921 Ilse Werner, German actress and singer
• 1930 Klaus Wagenbach, German publisher
• 1941 Heiner Bremer, German journalist, television presenter and politician
• 1970 Justin Chambers, American actor
• 1972 Michael Rosenbaum, American actor and voice actor
• 1990 Caroline Wozniacki, Danish tennis player
• 2000 Jonathan Burkardt, German football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „11. Juli“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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