July 11, 2022
QUOTE
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people… it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
--John Quincy Adams
BIRTHDAYS
1767 – John Quincy Adams, Lawyer and politician, 6th President of the United States
1909 – Irene Hervey, Actress
1924 – Brett Somers, Actress and singer
1953 – Leon Spinks, Boxer
IN MEMORY
1937 – George Gershwin, Pianist, songwriter, and composer
1989 – Laurence Olivier, English actor, director, and producer
2007 – Lady Bird Johnson, 43rd First Lady of the United States
2014 – Tommy Ramone, Drummer and producer
IN ON THIS DAY
1405 – Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.
1796 – The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.
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.
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.
1962 – First transatlantic satellite television transmission.