Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Day 192 - This day in legal and military history

July 11
 

WORLD Population Day
 

NATIONAL Cheer Up the Lonely Day
 

NATIONAL Cow Appreciation Day 

NATIONAL Blueberry Muffin Day
 

NATIONAL 7-Eleven Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1804 A duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton leaves Hamilton dead
 

1914 Babe Ruth made his major league baseball debut as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox
 

1955 USAF Academy opens with 300 cadets at Lowry AFB, Colorado
 

1977 Martin Luther King, Jr., is posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom
 

1995 Full diplomatic relations are established between the United States and Vietnam

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