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472 – After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in St. Peter's Basilica and put to death.; 813 – Byzantine emperor Michael I, under threat by conspiracies, abdicates in favor of his general Leo the Armenian, and becomes a monk (under the name Athanasius).
Muhammad ibn Qasim leading his troops in battle Qasim's expedition into northwestern India. Year 711 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
1725 – J. S. Bach led the first performance of his chorale cantata Jesu, nun sei gepreiset, which features trumpet fanfares at the start and end.; 1801 – Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres, naming it after the Roman goddess of agriculture and of motherly love.
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711 may refer to: . 711 (number), a natural number AD 711, a year of the 8th century AD; 711 BC, a year of the 8th century BC; 7-1-1, the telephone number of the Telecommunications Relay Service in the United States and Canada
On this day in 1985, the first Blockbuster video store rental opened in Dallas, Texas. Blockbuster was founded by David Cook, who at the time had owned a computer software business. However, it ...
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Google is turning 17! It seems like such a gigantic company should be much older, but it wasn't even two decades ago that the very first iteration of today's most used search engine went online.