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July 11
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In 1533, Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII.
In 1767, John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, was born in Braintree, Mass.
In 1798, the U.S. Marine Corps was created by an act of Congress.
In 1804, vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel near Weehawken, N.J.
In 1864, Confederate forces led by General Jubal Early began their invasion of Washington D.C.
In 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first chief executive to travel through the Panama Canal, aboard the cruiser Houston.
In 1974, the house Judiciary Committee released volumes of evidence it had gathered in its Watergate inquiry.
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Actor Tab Hunter (1931)
Singer Bonnie Pointer (1951)
Boxer Leon Spinks (1953)
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"Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave/When they think their children are naive."
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Ogden Nash, American Poet and humorist (1902-1971)