July 11th
Today in America's Present Past
1656 | Civil Rights: The first Quakers to land in Boston, Ann Austin and Mary Fisher, are arrested and jailed by the Puritan colonial government. After 5 weeks of imprisonment, they are deported.
1767 | POTUS: President John Quincy Adams was born.
1798 | POTUS: President Adams signs legislation to create the U.S. Marine Corps.
1804 | Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton duel resulting in Hamilton’s death.
1806 | Founding Father James Smith died.
1825 | Revolutionary War hero Thomas P. Grosvenor died.
1834 | Painter James McNeill Whistler was born.
1861 | Civil War: Battle of Laurel Mountain, Virginia.
1863 | Civil War: The military holds the first draft lottery.
1897 | Politician Bull Connor was born.
1899 | Author E.B. White was born.
1916 | Congress passes the first Federal Aid Road Act.
1921 | SCOTUS: Chief Justice William Howard Taft was sworn in.
1930 | Literary critic Harold Bloom died.
1934 | POTUS: Democrat President Roosevelt became the first sitting President to travel through the Panama Canal.
1937 | Composer George Gershwin died.
1955 | Congress: Authorized all currency to say "In God We Trust.”
1959 | Musician Richie Sambora was born.
1960 | Harper Lee publishes “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
1962 | Entrepreneur Owen D. Young died.
1974 | Baltimore, Maryland police strike starts.
1977 | Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
1981 | Civil Rights: Neva Rockefeller was the first woman ordered to pay her husband alimony.
1989 | POTUS: Republican President Ronald Reagan sportscasts the All-Star Game.
1996 | Activist Martin Corbett died.
2007 | First Lady Lady Bird Johnson died.