On July 11, 1995, at least 8,800 people are murdered in Srebrenica, a Bosnian town with a Muslim majority, by the Serbobonians of General Ratko Mladic.
1533.- Excommunication of Henry VIII from England and break with Rome.
1924.- The Norwegian Government changes the name of the capital Cristiania to Oslo.
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1954.- The head of the Paraguayan Army, Alfredo Stroessner, wins the presidential elections and leads a dictatorship until 1989.
1962.- First satellite broadcast from Telstar 1, with the transmission of an American flag from Androver, in Maine (USA), to Pleumeur-Bodou (France).
1969.- British singer David Bowie releases the song ‘Space Oddity’, days before Neil Armstrong stepped on the Moon.
1975.- They announce the discovery of more than 7,000 sculptures of terracotta warriors from Xi’an (China), found a year earlier.
1982.- Italy wins the Soccer World Cup by beating the RFA in the final (3-1), at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium.
1992.- The General Synod of the Anglican Church approves that women can exercise the priesthood.
2000.- About thirty heads of state unanimously approve the creation of the African Union in Lomé (Togo). It will be established in 2002 in Durban (South Africa).
2002.- Moroccan troops settle on the Spanish islet of Perejil, although they abandon it a week later.
2003.- The Spanish Government approves the deployment of 1,300 soldiers in Iraq.
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2006.- A wave of attacks on seven suburban trains in Bombay (India) causes 185 deaths and more than 700 injuries.
2010.- The Spanish soccer team is proclaimed champion of the World Cup in South Africa by beating the Netherlands (1-0), with a goal from Iniesta.
2011.- Surgeon Pedro Cavadas performs the first bilateral leg transplant in the world at the La Fe hospital in Valencia (eastern Spain).
2015.- Second escape from a Mexican prison by drug trafficker Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán.
2017.- Donald Trump Jr., son of the US president, publishes emails that reveal that he sought Russian support to damage Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
2021.- Cuba registers the most serious citizen protests since the 1990s, encouraged by the economic and health situation in the country.
2025.- The PKK, the Kurdish guerrilla, considered terrorist by Türkiye, the EU and the US, begins its delivery of weapons as part of its dissolution process.
1561.- Luis de Góngora y Argote, Spanish poet.
1775.- José María Blanco y Crespo, ‘Blanco White’, Spanish writer.
1920.- Yul Brynner, American actor.
1934.- Giorgio Armani, Italian designer and couturier.
1958.- Hugo Sánchez, Mexican footballer and coach.
1959.- Suzanne Vega, American singer.
1960.- Jafar Panahi, Iranian film director.
1972.- Henrique Capriles, Venezuelan politician.
1766.- Isabel de Farnesio, queen of Spain and wife of Philip V.
1920.- Eugenia de Montijo, Spanish and French empress.
1937.- George Gershwin, American composer.
1976.- León de Greiff, Colombian poet.
1989.- Laurence Olivier, British actor.
2003.- María Mercedes Carranza, Colombian poet.
2014.- Tommy Ramone, member and founder of the rock band Ramones.
2015.- Satoru Iwata, Japanese businessman and president of Nintendo.
2023.- Milan Kundera, Czech writer.
