New Haven Register (New Haven, CT)
TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT July 11, 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.)
ON THIS DATE 1798
The U.S. Marine Corps was formally reestablished by a congressional act that also created the U.S. Marine Band.
1960
The novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee was first published by J.B. Lippincott and Co.
1974
The House Judiciary Committee released volumes of evidence it had gathered in its Watergate inquiry.