JULY 11
1955:Three-hundred six cadets are sworn in as the first class of the new U.S. Air Force Academy at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver.
1533: King Henry VIII is excommunicated by Pope Clement VII as punishment for the king’s defiant divorce of Catherine of Aragon in order to marry Anne Boleyn.
1804: Vice President Aaron Burr and his longtime political and personal adversary, former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, meet in a pistol duel. Hamilton is mortally wounded and dies the following day; Burr’s political career is ruined.
1960: Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird is published.
1955:Three-hundred six cadets are sworn in as the first class of the new U.S. Air Force Academy at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver.
1533: King Henry VIII is excommunicated by Pope Clement VII as punishment for the king’s defiant divorce of Catherine of Aragon in order to marry Anne Boleyn.
1804: Vice President Aaron Burr and his longtime political and personal adversary, former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, meet in a pistol duel. Hamilton is mortally wounded and dies the following day; Burr’s political career is ruined.
1960: Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird is published.
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