On This Day: Monday July 11, 2005 This is the 192nd day of the year, with 173 days remaining in 2005.
Fact of the Day: bowdlerize
British medical doctor, Thomas Bowdler, gave up his practice in 1754 and undertook the "cleansing" of Shakespeare's works - removing all words and expressions he considered to be indecent. In 1818, he published his edition of Shakespeare's works intended for "families." His name became synonymous with self-righteous expurgation and the word bowdlerize has become familiar in the English language.
Holidays Mongolia: National Day / Naadam National Holiday.
Feast day of St Benedict, St John of Bergamo, St Drostan, St Olga, and St Hidulf.
Events 1533 - Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII.
1804 - Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Secretary and his long-time antagonist, Alexander Hamilton, in a pistol duel in New Jersey.
1945 - The US first used napalm on Japanese forces holed up on Luzon in the Philippines.
1955 - The Air Force Academy was dedicated at Lowry Air Base in Colorado.
1966 - "The Newlywed Game" premiered on TV.
1975 - 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.
1979 - The abandoned US space station Skylab made a spectacular return to Earth after being in space since 1973, burning up in the atmosphere and showering debris over the Indian Ocean and Australia.
1985 - Explosions sank the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbor, New Zealand.
1987 - It was formally announced that the world population had reached 5 billion, double the level of 1950.
1995 - President Bill Clinton established full diplomatic relations with Vietnam, about two decades after the fall of Saigon.
Births 1274 - Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (1306-1329).
1767 - John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States (1825-1829).
