Today is Wednesday, July 11, 193rd day of 2012. There are 173 days left in the year.
1533 _ Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
1804 _ V.P. Aaron Burr kills Alex Hamilton in a pistol duel near Weehawken
1921 _ Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day)
1952 _ General Eisenhower nominated as Republican presidential candidate
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
1991 _ Total solar eclipse is seen in Hawaii