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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