Once Upon A Time – July 11 – 1900 – Charlotte Cooper Becomes 1st female Olympic Tennis Champion

1405 Chinese fleet commander Zheng He sets sail on his first major expedition, to the Spice Islands, leading 208 vessels, including 62 treasure ships with 27,800 sailors

1533 Pope Clement VII excommunicates England’s King Henry VIII

1818 English poet John Keats writes “In the Cottage Where Burns is Born”, “Lines Written in the Highlands”, and “Gadfly”

1877 Kate Edger becomes New Zealand’s first woman graduate and first woman in the British Empire to earn a Bachelor of Arts

1944 Franklin Roosevelt announces that he will run for a fourth term as President of the United States

1995 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men are massacred when Bosnian Serbs overrun the UN ‘safe haven’ of Srebrenica

Historical Events Today
Today in Film & TV
1967 “The Newlywed Game” premieres in the US on ABC TV

2013 “Orange Is the New Black” premieres on Netflix starring Taylor Schilling, first series to be nominated for comedy and drama Emmy awards

Today in Music
1969 David Bowie releases the single “Space Oddity” 9 days before Apollo 11 lands on the moon

Today in Sport
1900 Charlotte Cooper beats Hélène Prévost to become the 1st female Olympic tennis champion and the 1st individual female Olympic champion in any sport

1960 “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee is first published by J. B. Lippincott & Co.

2015 Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán escapes from Altiplano maximum-security prison west of Mexico City via a specially constructed 1.5 km tunnel from his cell to a nearby house

Famous Weddings
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 Accused spy Mata Hari (18) weds Dutch colonial army Captain Rudolph MacLeod in Amsterdam