60-56: Hamilton vs. Burr
60: The Galveston Hurricane makes landfall, killing anywhere from 6,000 to 12,000 people. It remains the deadliest natural disaster in American history.
59: Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting for the first time in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
58: War of 1812: Americans defending the key city of Baltimore mark a turning point in the war, inspiring Francis Scott Key to pen “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
57: Vice President Aaron Burr kills former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton in a duel (featuring trial and appellate lawyer David O. Stewart, author of American Emperor: Aaron Burr’s Challenge to Jefferson’s America).
56: The CIA locates 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where he is later killed by Navy SEAL Team Six in a pre-dawn raid on his compound (featuring former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Leon Panetta).
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