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On This Day In History for July 11, 2018

This is the 192nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 173 days remaining in 2018.

* It was on this date in 1405, that Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.

* Also today in 1576, Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.

* Also on July 11, 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.

* It was on this date in 1796, that The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.

* That same date in 1801, French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.

* July 11, 1848, Waterloo railway station in London opens.

* 129 years ago today, Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.

* July 11, 1893, The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.

* Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology to scientists on this date in 1895.

* 121 years ago today, Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.

* To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, in the United States on this date in 1960.

* Also on July 11, 1962, Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.

* It was also this date in 1962 that First transatlantic satellite television transmission.

* On July 11, 1972, The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.

* 41 years ago today, Martin Luther King, Jr. is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

* Also today in 1979, America’s first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.

* PTV is introduced as a kids programming block for PBS to broadcast educational programming to underprivileged children on this date in 1994.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

* Swedish chemist and mineralogist, Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, born on this date in 1709.

* American astronomer and author, Isabel Martin Lewis was born 137 years ago today.

* Alexander Prokhorov, the Australian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born 102 years ago today.

* Venetia Burney, English educator, who named Pluto was born on that same date in 1918.

* Brazilian physicist and academic, César Lattes was born 94 years ago today.

* American-Canadian physicist and engineer, Theodore Maiman, born on this date in 1927.

* Italian physicist and academic, Tullio Regge was born 87 years ago today.

* Also turning 84 today is Italian fashion designer, founded the Armani Company Giorgio Armani.

* Pakistani physicist and academic, Pervez Hoodbhoy is 68 today.

Listener Birthdays

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