Today in History for 11th July 2015 From JJDR

1405 - Chinese fleet commander Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.
1533 - Pope Clement VII excommunicates England's King Henry VIII
1944 - Franklin Roosevelt announces that he will run for a fourth term as President of the United States.
1975 - Chinese archeologists discover a 3-acre burial site with 6,000 clay statues of warriors dating as early as 221 BC
1995 - 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men are massacred when Bosnian Serbs overrun the UN 'safe haven' of Srebrenica.

Today's Historical Events

Famous Birthdays

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E. B. White (1899)

Giorgio Armani (1934)

John Quincy Adams (1767)

Leon Spinks (1953)

Today's Famous Birthdays

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 5 of 16
1867 - Businesswoman Hetty Green (32) weds Edward Henry Green
1877 - Scientist and inventor Alexander Graham Bell (30) weds Mabel Hubbard (19) at the Hubbard estate in Cambridge, Massachusetts
1895 - Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan, and accused spy Mata Hari (18) weds Dutch colonial army Captain Rudolph MacLeod in Amsterdam
1937 - Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas (22) marries dancer Caitlin McNamara (22) in Penzance, Cornwall
1954 - Football coach Al Davis (25) weds Carol Segal

Today's Famous Weddings