On This Day:
Friday July 11, 2014 This is the 192nd day of the year, with 173 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: apple trees The production of consistent apple trees is not easy as the seeds resemble their parents no more than human daughters resemble mothers. Without the technique of grafting, each tree in the world would constitute its own variety, distinct from every other.
Holidays Mongolia: National Day / Naadam National Holiday.
Feast day of St. Benedict, St. John of Bergamo, St. Drostan, St. Olga, and St. Hidulf.
Events 1533 - Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII.
1804 - Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Secretary and his long-time antagonist, Alexander Hamilton, in a pistol duel in New Jersey.
1945 - The U.S. first used napalm on Japanese forces holed up on Luzon in the Philippines.
1955 - The Air Force Academy was dedicated at Lowry Air Base in Colorado.
1966 - "The Newlywed Game" premiered on TV.
1975 - Excavations at the tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi, near the ancient Chinese capital of Xi'an, uncovered an army of 8,000 life-size terracotta warriors dating to about 206 BC.
1977 - Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter.
1979 - The abandoned U.S. space station Skylab made a spectacular return to Earth after being in space since 1973, burning up in the atmosphere and showering debris over the Indian Ocean and Australia.
1985 - Explosions sank the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbor, New Zealand.
1987 - It was formally announced that the world population had reached 5 billion, double the level of 1950.
1995 - President Bill Clinton established full diplomatic relations with Vietnam, about two decades after the fall of Saigon.
2006 - Microsoft discontinues official support for Windows 98 and Windows Me.
Births 1274 - Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (1306-1329).
1767 - John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States of America (1825-1829).
1899 - E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White, American author, essayist.
1915 - Yul Brynner (Taidje Khan), Russian-born American actor.
1934 - Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer.
1953 - Leon Spinks, American boxer.
1959 - Richie Sambora, American musician.
Deaths 1937 - George Gershwin, American composer.
1989 - Laurence Olivier, English actor and director.
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