Eight bombs hit a commuter rail network during evening rush hour in Mumbai, India, killing more than 200 people.
Today is Saturday, July 11, the 192nd day of 2026. There are 173 days left in the year. On July 11, 2006, eight bombs hit a commuter rail network during evening rush hour in Mumbai, India, killing more than 200 people.
In 1798, the U.S. Marine Corps was formally reestablished by a congressional act that also created the U.S. Marine Band. In 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton during a pistol duel in Weehawken, New Jersey. In 1864, Confederate forces led by Gen.
Jubal Early began an abortive invasion of Washington, D.C. ; the raid was turned back the next day. In 1914, Babe Ruth made his Major League baseball debut, pitching the Boston Red Sox to a 4-3 victory over Cleveland. In 1960, Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” was published.
In 1972, the World Chess Championship opened as grandmasters Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union began play in Reykjavik, Iceland. In 1979, the abandoned U.S. space station Skylab made a spectacular return to Earth, burning up in the atmosphere and showering debris over the Indian Ocean and Australia.
In 1991, a Nigeria Airways DC-8 carrying Muslim pilgrims crashed at the Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, international airport, killing all 261 people on board. In 1995, the U.N. -designated “safe haven” of Srebrenica in Bosnia-Herzegovina fell to Bosnian Serb forces, who subsequently carried out the killings of more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
In 2022, President Joe Biden revealed the first image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the farthest humanity had ever seen in both time and distance, closer to the dawn of the universe and the edge of the cosmos. Actor Stephen Lang is 74. Singer Peter Murphy is 69. Rock guitarist Richie Sambora is 67.
Actor Justin Chambers is 56. Pro Football Hall of Famer Andre Johnson is 45. Actor Connor Paolo is 36.
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