July 11<\/p>\n
1174 \u2013 Baldwin IV, age 13, becomes King of Jerusalem, with Raymond III, Count of Tripoli as regent and William of Tyre as chancellor.<\/p>\n
1576 \u2013 While exploring the North Atlantic Ocean in an attempt to find the Northwest Passage, the English mariner Martin Frobisher sights Greenland, mistaking it for the hypothesized (but non-existent) island of “Frisland”.<\/p>\n
1796 \u2013 The U. S. takes possession of Detroit from Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.<\/p>\n
1798 \u2013 The United States Marine Corps is re-established after being disbanded after the Revolutionary War.<\/p>\n
1804 \u2013 Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounds Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel with pistols.<\/p>\n
1864 \u2013 Battle of Fort Stevens; Confederate forces attempt to invade Washington D.C. during the War Between The States.<\/p>\n
1895 \u2013 Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumi\u00e8re demonstrate motion picture technology<\/p>\n
1914 \u2013 Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball.<\/p>\n
1921 \u2013 Former President William Taft is sworn in as the 10th Chief Justice of the U.S.<\/p>\n
1960 \u2013 To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em> by Harper Lee is first published in the U.S. 1962 \u2013 Named Project Apollo<\/em>,\u00a0 NASA announces that the method of landing\u00a0 astronauts on the Moon, and returning them to Earth will be via lunar orbit by a main vehicle and decent and return to rendezvous by a separate lander instead of direct landing.<\/p>\n 1979 \u2013 America’s first space station, Skylab,<\/em> is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n 1983 \u2013 A Linea Aerea del Ecuador state airline Boeing 737\u2013200 crashes near Cuenca, Ecuador, killing all 119 passengers and crew on board.<\/p>\n 2005 \u2013 The final stage of the Department of Defense’s Military to Civilian conversion at Fort Knox’s Consolidated Weapons Facility begins.<\/p>\n 2021 \u2013 Richard Branson becomes the first civilian to be launched into space on his own Virgin Galactic spacecraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 11 1174 \u2013 Baldwin IV, age 13, becomes King of Jerusalem, with Raymond III, Count of Tripoli as regent and William of Tyre as chancellor. 1576 \u2013 While exploring the North Atlantic Ocean in an attempt to find the Northwest Passage, the English mariner Martin Frobisher sights Greenland, mistaking it for the hypothesized (but … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56881"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94300,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56881\/revisions\/94300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2 years later it is adapted to film and released.<\/p>\n