July 11 is the 192nd day of the year (193rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 173 days remain until the end of the year.
472 – After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in St. Peter’s Basilica and put to death.
1174 – Baldwin iv, 13, becomes King of Jerusalem, with Raymond III, Count of Tripoli as regent and William of Tyre as chancellor.
1798 – The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.
1889 – Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.
1977 – Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated in 1968, is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
1991 – Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 crashes in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia killing all 261 passengers and
2010 – The Islamist militia group Al-Shabaab carried out multiple suicide bombings in Kampala, Uganda, killing 74 people and injuring 85 others.
2011 – Ninety-eight containers of explosives self-detonate killing 13 people in Zygi, Cyprus.
1991 – A Canadian-chartered DC-8 plane, carrying Muslim pilgrims crashed at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia international airport,s killed all two hundred and sixty one (261) people on board.
2010 – In southern region, four Journalists were kidnapped by gunmen. The kidnappers made a ransom demand of $1.67 million, but the Journalists were later released on July 18, with no ransom paid.
