July 11 Birthday
July 11, 1804: Aaron Burr, Vice President of the United States, shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel at Weehawken, New Jersey. Hamilton's bullet went into a tree. Burr's went into Hamilton's abdomen. Hamilton died the next day. The duel was the culmination of years of political rivalry and personal hatred. Hamilton had written that Burr was "a man of fair character" but then said worse things in private correspondence. Burr was charged with murder but never tried. He later plotted to create an independent nation in the western territories. People born on July 11 fall under the zodiac sign of Cancer. The birthstone is Ruby and the birth flower is Larkspur. Historical events on July 11 include 1804: Aaron Burr kills Alexander Hamilton in duel, 1979: Skylab crashes into Australia, 1995: Srebrenica massacre begins. Famous people born on July 11 include John Quincy Adams (1767), Yul Brynner (1920), Giorgio Armani (1934).