A bit of July 11th history…
1533 - Pope Clement VII excommunicates England’s King Henry VIII
1804 - Vice President of the US Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel (pictured)
1892 - US patent office says Joseph Swan rather than Thomas Edison invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp
1955 - US Congress authorizes all US currency to say “In God We Trust”
1977 - US Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
2018 - Oldest stone tools outside Africa discovered in Western China, estimated 2.12 million years old made by hominids
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