On this day: July 11

POSTED: 09:33 AM MDT Jul 09, 2012    UPDATED: 12:00 AM MDT Jul 11, 2012 

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
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Library of Congress

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

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