1847 – After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City. Celebrations of this event include the Pioneer Day Utah state holiday and the Days of '47 Parade.
1862 – Martin Van Buren, American lawyer and politician, 8th President of the United States (b. 1782) dies.
1866 – Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
1897 – Amelia Earhart, American pilot and author (d. 1937) is born.
1901 – O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
1915 – The passenger ship S.S. Eastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
1935 – The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109 °F (43 °C) in Chicago and 104 °F (40 °C) in Milwaukee.
1937 – Quinlan Terry, English architect, designed the Brentwood Cathedral is born.
1950 – Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.
1951 – Lynda Carter, American actress is born.
1959 – At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate".
1964 – Barry Bonds, American baseball player is born.
1969 – Jennifer Lopez, American actress, singer, and dancer is born.
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
1974 – Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
1983 – George Brett batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the "Pine Tar Incident".
2012 – Robert Ledley, American physiologist and physicist, invented the CT scanner (b. 1926) dies.
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