Today is the 164th day of the year, with only 201 days remaining until the new year.
1777 - Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
1805 - Scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
1893 - Grover Cleveland undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw. The operation is not revealed until nine years after his death.
1917 - The deadliest German air rad on London during the First World War, is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.
1927 - Aviator Charles Linbergh receives a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
1934 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy. Mussolini later describes the German dictator as "a silly little monkey."
1955 - Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR is discovered.
1967 - President Lyndon Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1970 - "The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last number 1 song.
1977 - Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray, is recaptured after escaping from prison three days earlier.
1997 - A jury sentenced Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the Oklahoma City bombing, two years earlier.
2005 - A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at Neverland Ranch.
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