July 11th in History

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July 11th in History

1533: King Henry VIII of England is excommunicated.
1804: American VP Aaron Burr kills US treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton during a duel.
1895: First motion picture is shown in Paris by the Lumiere brothers.
1960: Ivory Coast, Niger, Upper Volta and Dahomey all become independent
1975: Army of life-size terracotta soldiers discovered in China
1979: Debris from the US Skylab space station fall on Australia
1995: U.S. establishes diplomatic relations with Vietnam

July 11th birthdays

1274: Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland
1656: First Quaker colonists land at Boston
1754: Thomas Bowdler, British censor.
1767: John Quincy Adams, Former (6th) American President
1899: E. B. White, American writer