1804: A duel between two leading American politicians claims the life of one.
United States Vice President Aaron Burr and former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton ended a life-long feud with a duel. Hamilton was fatally wounded and died the next day.
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1859: Big Ben, in the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament, tolled for the first time. In September it cracked under the hammer, a mere two months after it officially went into service. According to the foundry’s manager, a hammer more than twice the maximum weight specified had been used and for three years Big Ben was taken out of commission.
1914: Major League Baseball debut of Babe Ruth
George Herman “Babe” Ruth, Jr., one of the world’s most well-known professional baseball player started his major league baseball career with the Boston Red Sox.
1960: Congolese businessman turned politician Moรฏse Tshombe declares that the Katanga region is seceding from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The new country of DRC is thrown into chaos, which will lead to U.N. peacekeeping intervention. The crisis will expand with the assassination of Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba and the death of U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskhรถld, which will be linked to the Katanga Gendarmerie.
1960: To Kill a Mockingbird is first published as Atticus
Harper Lee’s classic and Pulitzer Prize-winning book is about racial inequality during the Great Depression.
1991: Nigerian DC-8 crashes near Djeddah 261 die. โ
1995: More than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys are massacred by Bosnian Serbs after they overrun the UN ‘safe haven’ of Srebrenica on directive of Radovan Karadลพiฤ.
1998: Dr. James Young (a cardiac pathologist) reaffirms that MKO Abiola died of natural causes, of long standing disease of the heart, of a type and severity that can cause unexpected death.
2002: The Supreme Court ruled against the trial for murder of Mohammed Abacha, son of late General Sani Abacha, saying no clear case had been established against him.
2006: Mumbai train bombings. Over 200 people were killed and about 700 people were injured in a series of bombings on Mumbai city trains.
2009: MEND bombed the Atlas Cove Jetty killing at least 5 security personnel including Navy Commander Kolawole Johnson Awe. It was the first attack by Niger Delta militants outside the Niger Delta. โ
2010: The FIFA World Cup championship’s final game is played at Soccer City in Johannesburg, South Africa. This ends the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the first World Cup to be held on African soil. In the final, Spain defeats The Netherlands.
2019: During South Africaโs annual rites of manhood observed by some traditionalists, 17 boys die after circumcisions made with crude tools cause fatal infections. The tragedy would be worse if Eastern Province authorities had not previously removed 100 boys from illegal traditional initiation camps.
BIRTHS ON THIS DAY: July 11
Olu Jacobs, 82 years
Oludotun Baiyewu Jacobs, known professionally as Olu Jacobs, is a veteran Nigerian actor and film executive. He began his career starring in several British television series and international films. Vanguard described him as one of the “godfathers of Nollywood”, along with Pete Edochie.
