On This Day in History July 11, 2019

Historical Events 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 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 More Historical Events Famous Birthdays E. B. White (1899 - 1985) John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848) Robert the Bruce (1274 - 1329) Yul Brynner (1920 - 1985) More Famous Birthdays Famous Deaths Aga Khan III (1877 - 1957) Laurence Olivier (1907 - 1989) More Famous Deaths