On this day: July 11

POSTED: 10:33 AM Jul 09 2012 UPDATED: 1:00 AM Jul 11 2012

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A vice president duels for honor, the Marine Corps is re-established, a folk singer debuts, a space station plummets to Earth and Martin Luther King earns a posthumous honor, all on this day.

OTD July 11 - John Quincy Adams — 1 / 27

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1767: John Quincy Adams, the sixth U.S. president, is born.

OTD July 11 - John Quincy Adams

OTD July 11 - Detroit

OTD July 11 - Marine Corps

OTD July 11 - Hamilton-Burr duel

OTD July 11 - Big Ben

OTD July 11 - Fort Stevens

OTD July 11 - Tijuana

OTD July 11 - Lumiere

OTD July 11 - Babe Ruth

OTD July 11 - Yul Brynner

OTD July 11 - William Howard Taft

OTD July 11 - Hollywood Bowl

OTD July 11 - Giorgio Armani

OTD July 11 - Dean Martin

OTD July 11 - Air Force Academy Cadets

OTD July 11 - Joan Baez

OTD July 11 - To Kill a Mockingbird

OTD July 11 - Space Oddity

OTD July 11 - Martin Luther King

OTD July 11 - Skylab

OTD July 11 - Nolan Ryan

OTD July 11 - Caroline Wozniacki

OTD July 11 - Michael Blassie

OTD July 11 - Lars Ulrich

OTD July 11 - Mumbai

OTD July 11 - Lady Bird Johnson

OTD July 11 - iPhone 3G

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