What happend on 11th July

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12.07
1977

Martin Luther King is posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom.

1975

Chinese archeologists discover a large burial site with 6,000 clay statutes of warriors from 221 BC.

1973

A Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport, killing 122 people.

1971

Copper mines in Chile nationalised.

1962

First transatlantic satellite television transmission.

1960

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published.

1957

Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherites the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismaili worlwide, after the passing away of Sir Sultam Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III

1955

The phrase In God We Trust is added to all US currency.

1944

Franklin D. Roosevelt says he will run for a fourth term as President of the United States.

1943

World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily