July 11: Day of the Flemish Community of Belgium; Naadam begins in Mongolia
William Howard Taft
- 1302 - Flemish infantry defeat a large French army near Kortrijk at the Battle of the Golden Spurs.
- 1833 – Noongar warrior Yagan, wanted for leading attacks on white colonists in Western Australia, was killed, becoming a symbol of the unjust and sometimes brutal treatment of the indigenous peoples of Australia by colonial settlers.
- 1921 – Former President of the United States William Howard Taft (pictured) was sworn in as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, making him the only person to ever hold both positions.
- 1943 – In a massive ethnic cleansing operation, units of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army attacked various Polish villages in the Volhynia region of present-day Ukraine, killing the Polish civilians and burning those settlements to the ground.
- 1991 – Shortly after takeoff from King Abdulaziz International Airport, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 caught fire in mid-flight and crashed, killing all 261 occupants on board.
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