Daily Almanac: July 11, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset:
RISE: 6:26 a.m.
SET: 9:19 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:
HIGH: 90 °F
LOW: 62 °F

Today is…:
• Free Slurpee Day
• National Mojito Day
• Cow Appreciation Day

What Happened On This Day:
• 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird is first published as Atticus. Harper Lee’s classic and Pulitzer Prize-winning book is about racial inequality during the Great Depression.

• 1914 Major League Baseball debut of Babe Ruth. George Herman “Babe” Ruth, Jr., one of the world’s most well-known professional baseball player started his major league baseball career with the Boston Red Sox.

• 1804 A duel between two leading American politicians claims the life of one. United States Vice President Aaron Burr and former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton ended a life-long feud with a duel. Hamilton was fatally wounded and died the next day.

Births On This Day:

• 1767 John Quincy Adams

American politician, 6th President of the United States

• 1274 Robert the Bruce

Scottish king

Deaths On This Day:

• 2010 Bob Sheppard

American sportscaster

• 1989 Laurence Olivier

English actor, director, producer