WORLD EVENTS ON 11 JULY

There are many important events that had happened on 11 July in the annals of the World History:

1. World Population Day:

The world faces ever-increasing overpopulation problems as each day goes by. World Population Day was created to raise awareness of this global crisis.

World Population Day was established by the then-Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989, an outgrowth of the interest generated by the Day of Five Billion, which was observed on 11 July 1987. The United Nations declared Matej Gaspar as the five billionth person in the world.  By resolution 45/216 of December 1990, the United Nations General Assembly decided to continue observing World Population Day to enhance awareness of population issues, including their relations to the environment and development. The Day was first marked on 11 July 1990 in more than 90 countries. Since then, a number of a number of UNFPA country offices and other organizations and institutions commemorate World Population Day, in partnership with governments and civil society. (Source:UN International Observance)

UN Decades: The United Nations designates specific  International decades as occasions to mark particular events or topics in order to promote, through awareness and action, the objectives of the Organization. Usually, it is one or more Member States that propose these observances and the United Nations General Assembly establishes them with a resolution.  Some of them may be later adopted by the General Assembly. 

UN Decades:2021-2030-United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.

(https://sites.google.com/view/internationalobservances/decades#h.xjnpxnygpy5t)

2. Happy Canada Day:

Canada Day is celebrated annually on the 1st of July and it is a statutory holiday. This day marks the anniversary of the formation of the union of the British North American provinces in a federation under the name of Canada. Canada Day also means fireworks and the year's biggest national party.

3. Charlotte Cooper:

In winning the women’s tennis singles title at Paris 1900, Charlotte Cooper became the first female athlete to win Olympic gold in an individual event.

A record breaker

Charlotte Cooper was one of the great women’s tennis champions of the late 19th-century, a time when the ladies’ game was played in long dresses. A member of the Ealing Lawn Tennis Club, she won her first Wimbledon singles title in 1895, aged 25, and would go on to repeat the feat on four further occasions. She was a wife and a mother by the time she won the last of those titles, in 1908, when she became the oldest winner of the prestigious tournament at the age of 37 years and 296 days, a record that stands to this day. Her 11 singles finals between 1895 and 1912 represented another Wimbledon record, which she held outright until 1994, when it was equalled by Martina Navratilova.

4. On this day in 1977, Martin Luther King Jr. posthumously received the US Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter.

5. On this day in 1804 A duel between two leading American politicians claims the life of one. United States Vice President Aaron Burr and former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton ended a life-long feud with a duel. Hamilton was fatally wounded and died the next day.

6. Births On This Day, July 11:

a) 1986 Yoann Gourcuff, French footballer

b) 1975 Lil' Kim, American rapper, actress

c) 1916 Gough Whitlam, Australian politician, 21st Prime Minister of Australia

d) 1767 John Quincy Adams, American politician, 6th President of the US

e) 1274 Robert the Bruce, Scottish king

7. Deaths On This Day, July 11

a) 2010 Bob Sheppard American sportscaster

b) 2007 Lady Bird Johnson American wife of Lyndon B. Johnson, 38th First Lady of the United States

c) 1998 Panagiotis Kondylis Greek writer, translator

d) 1989 Laurence Olivier English actor, director, producer

e)  472 Anthemius Roman Emperor