TODAY IN HISTORY - JULY 11TH

1653 – Sarah Good, American woman accused of witchcraft (d. 1692) is born.

1735 – Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979.

1767 – John Quincy Adams, American lawyer and politician, 6th President of the United States (d. 1848) is born.

1796 – The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.

1798 – The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.

1801 – French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.

1804 – A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.

1889 – Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.

1899 – E. B. White, American author, Charlotte's Web, and poet (d. 1985) is born.

1906 – Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.

1914 – Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball.

1918 – Venetia Burney, English educator, who named Pluto (d. 2009) is born.

1921 – Former President of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person ever to hold both offices.

1922 – The Hollywood Bowl opens.

1934 – Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer, founded the Armani Company is born.

1936 – The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.

1937 – George Gershwin, American pianist and composer (b. 1898) dies.

1953 – Leon Spinks, American boxer is born.

1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, in the United States.

1962 – Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.

1972 – The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.

1977 – Martin Luther King, Jr. is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

1979 – America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.

1990 – Caroline Wozniacki, Danish tennis player is born.

2007 – Lady Bird Johnson, American businesswoman, 43rd First Lady of the United States (b. 1912) dies.

2012 – Astronomers announce the discovery of Styx, the fifth moon of Pluto.