July 11th

The News of the World, a British newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch, closes after several allegations that the paper's journalists hacked into voicemail accounts belonging to not only a 13-year-old murder victim, but also the relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

FIFA World Cup Final is held in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Netherlands and Spain fought out for the prestigious football trophy. Spain won the match 1-0 and the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Former first lady Lady Bird Johnson died in Austin, Texas, at age 94.

Mumbai train bombings. Over 200 people were killed and about 700 people were injured in a series of bombings on Mumbai city trains.

7,000 Bosnian Muslim men are massacred when Bosnian Serbs overrun the UN 'safe haven' of Srebrenica.

Actor Laurence Olivier died.

The abandoned U.S. space station Skylab returned to Earth, burning up in the atmosphere and showering debris over the Indian Ocean and Australia.

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work to advance civil rights.

To Kill a Mockingbird is first published as Atticus. Harper Lee's classic and Pulitzer Prize-winning book is about racial inequality during the Great Depression.

The Air Force Academy was dedicated at Lowry Air Base in Colorado.

The Republican National Convention, meeting in Chicago, nominated Dwight D. Eisenhower for president and Richard M. Nixon for vice president.

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

Baseball Hall of Famer Babe Ruth made his major league debut as a pitcher for the Red Sox at Fenway Park in Boston.

Charlotte Cooper beats Hélène Prévost to become the 1st female Olympic tennis champion and the 1st individual female Olympic champion in any sport.

Confederate general Jubal A. Early and his troops attacked Washington, DC. They retreated the next day, ending the Confederate threat to occupy the capital.

Big Ben, the great bell inside the famous London clock tower, chimed for the first time.

Former vice president Aaron Burr fatally wounded former secretary of the treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Hamilton died the following afternoon.

The U.S. Marine Corps was created by an act of Congress.

John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, was born in Braintree, Mass.

Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII.

Chinese fleet commander Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.