Today is Thursday, July 11, the 192nd day of 2013. 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
1812 _ U.S. invades Canada (Detroit frontier)
1921 _ Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day)
1955 _ Congress authorizes all U.S. currency to say ``In God We Trust"
1969 _ David Bowie releases ``Space Oddity"
1977 _ Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
1982 _ Italy beats West Germany 3-1 for soccer's 12th World Cup in Madrid
1985 _ Astros' Nolan Ryan, first to strike out 4,000 (Mets' Danny Heep)
1989 _ President Ronald Reagan sportscasts the All Star Game