^B{^#!16!11 July^N! National Day of Mongolia. Feast day of St Benedict, St John of Bergamo, St Drostan, St Olga, and St Hidulf.
^B{1708^B} The Duke of Marlborough's forces defeated the French at the Battle of Oudenarde, in the War of the Spanish Succession. ^B{1776^B} Captain Cook sailed from Plymouth in the Resolution, accompanied by the Discovery, on his last expedition. ^B{1848^B} London's Waterloo Station was officially opened. ^B{1950^B} In Britain ^I{Andy Pandy^I}, the BBC's popular children's television program, was first transmitted. ^B{1975^B} Excavations at the tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi, near the ancient Chinese capital of Xi'an, uncovered an army of 8,000 life-size terracotta warriors dating to about 206 BC ^B{1977^B} In Britain, ^I{Gay News^I} was fined ú1,000 for publishing a poem which portrayed Jesus as homosexual. ^B{1979^B} America's ^I{Skylab I^I} returned to earth after 34,981 orbits and six years in space.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland, ^B{1274^B}; Frederick I, King of Prussia, ^B{1657^B}; John Quincy Adams, 6th US president, ^B{1767^B}; Yul Brynner, US film actor, ^B{1915^B}; Peter de Savary, British entrepreneur and yachtsman, ^B{1944^B}; Leon Spinks, US boxer, ^B{1953^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Alfred Dreyfus, French soldier, ^B{1935^B}; George Gershwin, US composer, ^B{1937^B}; Arthur John Evans, English archeologist, ^B{1941^B}; Paul Nash, English painter, ^B{1946^B}; Buddy DeSylva, US lyricist and film director, ^B{1950^B}; Laurence Olivier, English actor and director, ^B{1989^B}.
