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July 11 (UPI) – On this date in history:
In 1804, US Vice President Aaron Burr killed the long-time political foe Alexander Hamilton, the First Secretary of the Treasury, in a duel at Weehawken, NJ [19659002] In 1847, Stephen Foster's first hit song, "Oh! Susanna," is played for the first time in a Pittsburgh show. . He quickly became a standard for minstrel performances
[1859002] [1959-1900] A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens .
In 1914, the legendary Babe Ruth made her debut in Major League Baseball. The Grand Bambino would become one of the greatest baseball players of all time and was included in the inaugural class of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
In 1952, General Dwight D. Eisenhower was appointed Republican. presidential candidate, with Richard Nixon as running mate. They were elected in November
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In 1955, the US Air Force Academy in Colorado was dedicated, with 300 cadets in his first class.
In 1960, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird was published
In 1979, Skylab, the first US space station, fell to Earth after six years. orbit, scattering tons of debris in the Australian desert.
In 1995, the United States resumed diplomatic relations with Vietnam
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In 1995, the Bosnian Serbs declared that the city of Srebrenica, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was launching a genocide that would result in the death of over 7,000 Muslim men and boys. ] In 2006, more than 200 people were killed and 700 wounded in coordinated rush-hour terrorist attacks on the transit system in Mumbai.
In 2011, a Russian cruise ship overloaded with a faulty engine capsized and storm quickly sank, killing 122 people. There were 79 survivors
In 2015, the drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman escaped from a maximum-security Mexican prison through a 5,000-foot tunnel. It was his second prison break, and he would later be caught in January 2016.
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