Alexander Hamilton–Aaron Burr duel

John Quincy Adams, son of John Adams and sixth president of the United States, is born

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Harper Lee publishes “To Kill a Mockingbird”

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E.B. White, American writer, is born

Luis de Góngora y Argote, Spanish Baroque lyric poet, is born