Today is Monday, July 11, the 192nd day of 2011. There are 173 days left in the year.
1533 _ Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
1818 _ Keats writes ``In the Cottage Where Burns Was Born," ``Lines Written in the Highlands" and ``The Gadfly"
1921 _ Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day)
1960 _ Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta and Niger declare independence
1962 _ Fred Baldasare is first to swim English Channel underwater (scuba)
1969 _ David Bowie releases ``Space Oddity"
1974 _ House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry
1985 _ Astros' Nolan Ryan, first to strike out 4,000 (Mets' Danny Heep)
1988 _ Mike Tyson hires Donald Trump as an advisor
1989 _ President Ronald Reagan sportscasts the All Star Game