1804: Duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. Outraged over disparaging remarks that Alexander Hamilton had allegedly made at a dinner party, Aaron Burr challenged his longtime rival to a duel, and on this day in 1804 he fatally shot Hamilton in Weehawken, New Jersey. 1955: The U.S. Air Force Academy officially opened at temporary quarters at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, Colorado. 1953: Leon Spinks, who, like his brother Michael, won a world boxing title—the first set of brothers to do so—was born in St. Louis, Missouri. 1914: George Herman (“Babe”) Ruth played in his first major league baseball game, for the Boston Red Sox. 1863: Angered by unfair practices in Civil War conscription, New York City workers rioted and attacked draft headquarters. 1798: The U.S. Marine Corps, originally established in 1775, was formally reestablished. 1690: In the Battle of the Boyne, King William III of England defeated former king James II, who was attempting to take back the throne. 1302: In the Battle of the Golden Spurs, an untrained Flemish infantry militia defeated a professional force of French and patrician Flemish cavalry, thus halting the growth of French control over Belgium. 1274: The Scottish king Robert the Bruce, who freed Scotland from English rule, was born.
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