Daily Calendar for Friday, July 11, 2025

The U.S. Marine Corps was reestablished– 1798
U.S. Marine Band established– 1798
U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr fatally shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel– 1804
The Waterloo railway station in London opened– 1848
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens was published– 1859
Confederate General Jubal Early’s army reached Frederick, Maryland– 1864
Wilfrid Laurier became prime minister of Canada– 1896
Babe Ruth made his major league baseball debut with the Boston Red Sox– 1914
Fred Baldasare used scuba gear to become the first person to swim the English Channel underwater– 1962
Last slide rule manufactured in the United States.– 1976
U.S. space station Skylab, in orbit since 1973, returned to Earth and disintegrated over the Indian Ocean– 1979
Houston Astros pitcher Nolan Ryan became the first major league pitcher to strike out 4,000 batters– 1985
According to the United Nations, the world population crossed the 5,000,000,000 mark– 1987
35-pound chum salmon caught in Edye Pass, British Columbia– 1995

Strong winds and a thunderstorm collapsed a circus tent injuring 44 people, Howard, Wisconsin– 1987
Colorado was battered by baseball-size hail causing more than $600 million in damage from Estes Park to Colorado Springs– 1990