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July 11

1302		An army of French knights, led by the Count of Artois, is routed by Flemish pikemen.
1346		Charles IV of Luxembourg is elected Holy Roman Emperor in Germany.
1533		Henry VIII is excommunicated from the Catholic Church by Pope Clement VII.
1708		The French are defeated at Oudenarde, Malplaquet, in the Netherlands by the Duke of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy.
1786		Morocco agrees to stop attacking American ships in the Mediterranean for a payment of $10,000.
1799		An Anglo-Turkish armada bombards Napoleon Bonaparte's troops in Alexandria to no avail.
1804		Alexander Hamilton is mortally wounded by Aaron Burr in a duel.
1862		President Abraham Lincoln appoints General Henry Halleck as general in chief of the Federal army.
1942		In the longest bombing raid of World War II, 1,750 British Lancaster bombers attack the Polish port of Danzig.
1972		American forces break the 95-day siege at An Loc in Vietnam.
1975		Archaeologists unearth an army of 8,000 life-size clay figures created more than 2,000 years ago for the Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi.
1995		Full diplomatic relations are established between the United States and Vietnam.
Born on July 11
1274		Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (1306-1329).
1767		John Quincy Adams, Sixth President of the United States (1825-1829).
1838		John Wanamaker, U.S. merchant, founder of one of the first American department stores.
1888		Bartomeo Vanzetti, anarchist, executed with Nicola Sacco.
1899		E.B. White, author (Charlotte's Web).
1927		Theodore H. Maiman, physicist.

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