Today in History, July 11: Aaron Burr, Babe Ruth, and Skylab
1804—Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton duel in Weehawken, N.J. Burr, the vice president, shoots Hamilton, who dies of his wounds the following day.
1914—Babe Ruth makes his major-league debut with the Boston Red Sox.
1960—Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird is published.
1979—The space station Skylab falls from Earth orbit, leaving debris over the Indian Ocean and western Australia. The Australian community of Esperance would later fine NASA $400 for littering.
1995—Serbian forces take the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, a designated United Nations safe haven, killing thousands of Muslim men and boys.
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Your boy Hammy...
204 years ago today, Hamilton goes out in a blaze of glory. If I remember correctly Burr was the Vice President at the time, which makes Cheney look like a wimp who just peppered an old man's face with buckshot...
dean
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