📜 This Day in History

July 11

• 813Byzantine emperor Michael I Rangabe, under threat by conspiracies, abdicated in favor of his general Leo the Armenian, and became a monk.
• 1792The Belfast Harp Festival, an early event in the Gaelic revival, began at the Assembly Rooms.
• 1846British soldier Frederick John White died after a flogging, leading to a campaign to end the practice in the British Army.
• 1914The US Navy launched the USS Nevada (BB-36) as its first Standard-type battleship.
• 1982Italy defeated West Germany 3–1 to win their third FIFA World Cup title.
• 2011An explosion at the Evangelos Florakis Naval Base killed 13 people, including the head of the Cyprus Navy.

Born on this day

• 154Bardaisan, Syrian astrologer, scholar, and philosopher (died 222)
• 1767John Quincy Adams, American lawyer and politician, 6th President of the United States (died 1848)
• 1916Alexander Prokhorov, Australian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2002)
• 1934Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer, founded the Armani Company (died 2025)