July 11 - Water Baby

Water Baby

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This Day In History

1405

Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.

1576

Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.

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.

1776

Captain James Cook begins his third voyage.

1801

French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons made his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovered another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.

1804

A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.

1893

The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.

1921

Former U.S. President William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person to ever be both President and Chief Justice.

1962

First transatlantic satellite television transmission.

1979

America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.

Famous Birthdays

1274

Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (d. 1329)

1366

Anne of Bohemia, consort of Richard II of England (d. 1394)

1754

Thomas Bowdler, English physician and censor (d. 1825)

1899

E. B. White, American writer (d. 1985)

1920

Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (d. 1985)

1950

Bruce McGill, American actor

1973

Andrew Bird, American musician