First edition cover of "TKAM" |
July 11, 1804 – Vice President Aaron Burr killed Alexander
Hamilton during a duel outside Weehawken, N.J. Burr would be arrested in 1807 at McIntosh Bluff, which was then a part of the Mississippi Territory, but in present-day Washington County, Ala.
July 11, 1831 – The federal government granted an 80-acre tract
of land to Monroe County Probate Judge Henry W. Taylor for a town to be
established at the Crossroads. Monroeville’s present-day town square rests in
about the center of this original land grant.
July 11, 1861 - Union troops under General George B.
McClellan score another major victory in the struggle for western Virginia at
the Battle of Rich Mountain.
July 11, 1914 - In his major league debut, George Herman
"Babe" Ruth pitches seven strong innings to lead the Boston Red Sox
over the Cleveland Indians, 4-3.
July 11, 1930 - The thermometer at the Evergreen weather
observation station registered high mark of 107.5 degrees on both July 11 and
July 12, 1930.
July 11, 1947 – Forty-one men were formally inducted into the
Monroeville Kiwanis Club on its first ever Charter Night nearly two months
after the club was formed.
July 11, 1960 – J.B. Lippincott & Co. published the first edition of Harper
Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”
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