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Events
- 1679 – Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi – led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.
- 1776 – The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with Great Britain; wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not approved until July 4.
- 1777 – Vermont becomes the first American territory to abolish slavery.
- 1863 – American Civil War: Second day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
- 1878 – The Brighton Beach Line (now the BMT Brighton Line) opens in the then–city of Brooklyn.
- 1881 – Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from infection on September 19.
- 1890 – The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
- 1917 – Forty–eight die in rioting in East St. Louis, Illinois, as lower–paid black laborers clash with whites.
- 1937 – Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round–the–world flight.
- 1947 – An object speculated to be a UFO crashes near Roswell, New Mexico, though the United States Air Force claims it is a weather balloon.
- 1962 – The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
- 1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits segregation in public places.
- 1979 – The first U.S. coin to honor a woman, the Susan B. Anthony dollar, is introduced.
- 2002 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.