Daily Calendar for Friday, July 11, 2025

The U.S. Marine Corps was reestablished – 1798
U.S. Marine Band established – 1798
U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr fatally shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel – 1804
The Waterloo railway station in London opened – 1848
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens was published – 1859
Confederate General Jubal Early’s army reached Frederick, Maryland – 1864
Wilfrid Laurier became prime minister of Canada – 1896
Babe Ruth made his major league baseball debut with the Boston Red Sox – 1914
Fred Baldasare used scuba gear to become the first person to swim the English Channel underwater – 1962
Last slide rule manufactured in the United States. – 1976
U.S. space station Skylab, in orbit since 1973, returned to Earth and disintegrated over the Indian Ocean – 1979
Houston Astros pitcher Nolan Ryan became the first major league pitcher to strike out 4,000 batters – 1985
According to the United Nations, the world population crossed the 5,000,000,000 mark – 1987
35-pound chum salmon caught in Edye Pass, British Columbia – 1995

Strong winds and a thunderstorm collapsed a circus tent injuring 44 people, Howard, Wisconsin – 1987
Colorado was battered by baseball-size hail causing more than $600 million in damage from Estes Park to Colorado Springs – 1990