- 1804 11 Jul US Vice President Aaron Burr kills former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
- 1940 11 Jul World War One hero Henri Petain becomes head of the collaborative Vichy government of France.
- 1995 11 Jul Bosnian Serbs overrun the UN 'safe haven' of Srebrenica and 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men are massacred.
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