HISTORY AT A GLANCE

TODAY is Wednesday, July 11, the 192nd day of 2018. There are 173 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1960 – Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, in the United States. 1979 – America’s first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it reenters the Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean. 1995 – The Srebrenica massacre is

carried out. 2006 – Mumbai train bombings: Two hundred nine people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.