11th July: Today In History

Today is Tuesday, July 11th, the 192nd day of 2017. There are 173 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

Events:

1767:  John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, was born in Braintree, Massachusetts.

1798:  The U.S. Marine Corps was formally re-established by a congressional act that also created the U.S. Marine Band.

1804:  Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton during a pistol duel in Weehawken, New Jersey. (Hamilton died the next day.)

1922:  The Hollywood Bowl officially opened with a program called “Symphonies Under the Stars” with Alfred Hertz conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

1937:  American composer and pianist George Gershwin died at a Los Angeles hospital of a brain tumor; he was 38.

1952:  The Republican National Convention, meeting in Chicago, nominated Dwight D. Eisenhower for president and Richard M. Nixon for vice president.

1955:  The U.S. Air Force Academy swore in its first class of cadets at its temporary quarters at Lowry Air Force Base in Colorado.

1960:  The novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee was first published by J.B. Lippincott and Co.

1977:  The Presidential Medal of Freedom was presented to polio vaccine pioneer Dr. Jonas Salk and (posthumously) to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. by President Jimmy Carter.

1979:  The abandoned U.S. space station Skylab made a spectacular return to Earth, burning up in the atmosphere and showering debris over the Indian Ocean and Australia.

1989:  Actor and director Laurence Olivier died in Steyning, West Sussex, England, at age 82.

1991:  A Nigeria Airways DC-8 carrying Muslim pilgrims crashed at the Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, international airport, killing all 261 people on board.

1995:  The U.N.-designated “safe haven” of Srebrenica (sreh-breh-NEET’-sah) in Bosnia-Herzegovina fell to Bosnian Serb forces, who then carried out the killings of more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys. The United States normalized relations with Vietnam.

Birthdays:

Actor Tab Hunter is 86.

Actress Susan Seaforth Hayes is 74.

Singer Jeff Hanna (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) is 71.

Ventriloquist-actor Jay Johnson is 68.

Actor Bruce McGill is 67.

Singer Bonnie Pointer is 67.

Actor Stephen Lang is 65.

Actress Mindy Sterling is 64.

Boxer Leon Spinks is 64.

Actress Sela Ward is 61.

Reggae singer Michael Rose (Black Uhuru) is 60.

Singer Peter Murphy is 60.

Quotes Of The Day: 

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.

If you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn’t have fallen for the second.