Posted by Paul Callighan on Jul 10, 2020
July 6, 1885 – Dr. Louis Pasteur gave the first successful anti-rabies inoculation to a youngster who was bitten by an infected dog.
 
July 7, 1895 – President William McKinley signed a resolution annexing Hawaii (which had to wait for statehood until 1959).
 
July 7, 1930 – Construction begins on Hoover Dam.  Over the next five years approximately 21,000 people would be employed to build it.
 
July 11, 1804 – Vice President Aaron Burr fatally shoots his long-time political antagonist Alexander Hamilton during a duel in Weehawken, New Jersey.