07-11-2007, 03:51 PM
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July 11th
1798 ~ The U.S. Marine Corps was re-created by an act of Congress.
1857 ~ Birthday of Alfred Binet, French Psychologist.
1859 ~ Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" was published.
1899 ~ Birthday of E. B. White, American Writer. (Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, The Trumpet of the Swan.)
1914 ~ Babe Ruth made his major league debut with the Boston Red Sox.
1937 ~ Death of George Gershwin, American Composer.
1971 ~ Death of John W. Campbell, Writer & Editor.
1979 ~ Skylab deorbited.
1989 ~ Death of Sir Laurence Olivier, Actor.
1995 ~ Bosnian Serbs capture the city of Srebrenica.
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