History for July 11 - On-This-Day.com
John Quincy Adams 1767 - Sixth President of the United States, John Wanamaker 1838, E.B. White 1899
Yul Brynner 1915, Giorgio Armani 1934, Suzanne Vega 1959 - Musician
1804 - The United States' first secretary of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton, was killed by Vice President Aaron Burr in a duel.
1998 - U.S. Air Force Lt. Michael Blassie, a casualty of the Vietnam War, was laid to rest near his Missouri home. He had been positively identified from his remains that had been enshrined in the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington, VA.
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