Portal:United States/On this day/July 11
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Events
- 1796 - The U.S. takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.
- 1798 - The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.
- 1804 - Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
- 1864 - Confederate forces attempt an invasion of Washington, D.C.
- 1906 - Gillette-Brown murder inspires Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy
- 1914 - Babe Ruth debuts in Major league baseball.
- 1921 - Former US President William Howard Taft sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, becoming the only person to ever be both President and Chief Justice.
- 1922 - Hollywood Bowl opens.
- 1936 - Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
- 1944 - Franklin D. Roosevelt says he will run for a fourth term as President of the United States.
- 1955 - The phrase In God We Trust is added to all US currency.
- 1960 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published.
- 1977 - Martin Luther King is posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom.
- 1979 - The space station Skylab returns to Earth.
- 1991 - Total solar eclipse in Hawaii and Mexico.
- 1995 - Full diplomatic relations are established between the United States and Vietnam.
- 2004 - CIA Director George Tenet leaves his position at the agency.
