1766
Jul 11, Elisabeth Farnese (73), princess of Parma, queen of Spain, died.

1964
Jul 11, Queen Elizabeth ordered Beatles to her birthday party and they attended.

1986
Jul 11, Mary Beth Whitehead christened her surrogate Baby M (b.3/27/86), Sara.

2001
Jul 11, An Israeli soldier shot and killed a Palestinian woman after her taxi evaded a roadblock. Israeli police in Afula captured a Palestinian would-be suicide bomber.

2005
Jul 11, Frances Langford (b.1913), singer and entertainer, died. The 1935 song “I’m in the Mood for Love" by Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh was her signature piece.

2007
Jul 11, Lady Bird Johnson (b.1912), widow of former US Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969), died in Austin, Texas.

2008
Jul 11, In the Netherlands health authorities announced a Dutch woman, infected during a holiday to Uganda by the contagious Marburg virus, had died overnight. The Marburg virus is similar to Ebola and causes heavy bleeding. About 100 people who may have had contact with the woman were under surveillance.

2008
Jul 11, A North Korean soldier fatally shot a South Korean woman tourist (53) at a mountain resort in the communist North, prompting the South to suspend the high-profile tour program. Park Wang-ja had strayed a half-mile into a fenced off military area and was shot twice from behind.