1847
Mormons come to Salt Lake
Brigham Young and the first members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) arrived at the Great Salt Lake.
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1862
Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States, died in Kinderhook, N.Y.
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1866
Tennessee became the first Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union.
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1937
Charges against five black men accused of raping two white women in the Scottsboro case were dropped.
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1974
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon had to turn over White House tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
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2002
Nine coal miners were trapped in a mine in Pennsylvania. All were rescued three days later.
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