On This Day - 11th July

1767 - 6th U.S. President John Quincy Adams born
1899 - E.B. White born
1914 - Babe Ruth, playing for the Boston Red Sox, made his debut in Major League Baseball.
1920 - Yul Brynner born
1931 - Tab Hunter born
1934 - Giorgio Armani born
1953 - Leon Spinks born
1958 - Mark Lester born
1959 - Suzanne Vega born
1965 - Lisa Rinna born
1966 - On July 11 1966, Alf Ramsey's England got their campaign off to a disappointing start with a 0-0 draw against Uruguay in front of 87,000 at Wembley.
1977 - The Gay News and its editor is found guilty of blasphemous libel in the first case of its kind for more than fifty years.

1979 - The United States' first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere, scattering debris across the Indian Ocean and Western Australia.
1982 - Paolo Rossi was the star of the 1982 World Cup in Spain, the Italian smashing five goals on the way to the final before netting Italy's first, his sixth, against West Germany at the Bernabeu on July 11. Italy won the match 3 - 1.

1987 - Veterans return to the scene of the bloodiest battle of World War I to commemorate its 70th anniversary. The fields of Passchendaele in Belgium claimed the lives of 250,000 troops of the British Commonwealth between July and November 1917.
1991 - Labour MP Terry Fields is sentenced to 60 days in prison for refusing to pay his poll tax.
1995 - The Bosnian Serb army seizes control of the United Nations "safe area" of Srebrenica after Dutch peacekeepers are forced to withdraw. Also the United States announced it was to re-establish diplomatic relations with Vietnam.

2000 - The World Aids Conference in South Africa announces trials for a new HIV vaccine will begin in Britain.
2006 - 209 people are killed in a series of train bombings in Mumbai, India.