Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 11

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July 11: Naadam in Mongolia begins

• 1302 - Flemish infantry successfully halted a French invasion near Kortrijk in the Battle of the Golden Spurs.
• 1789 - French Revolution: Jacques Necker was dismissed as Director-General of Finances and ordered to leave France at once.
• 1811 - Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro (pictured) published a hypothesis on the molecular content of gases, now known as Avogadro's law.
• 1957 - Prince Karim El Husseni succeeded Sultan Mahommed Shah as the Aga Khan, becoming the 49th Imam of the Shi'a Ismaili Muslims.
• 1995 - Bosnian Genocide: Bosnian Serb forces under Ratko Mladić began the Srebrenica massacre in Potočari, Srebrenica.

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