1849: Georgetown University in Washington, DC, presented its first Doctor of Music Degree. It was given to Professor Henry Dielman.
1933: The first broadcast of "The Romance of Helen Trent" was heard on radio. 7,222 episodes were aired.
1847: Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake in present-day Utah.
1866: Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the U.S. Civil War.
1847: Richard M. Hoe patented the rotary-type printing press.
1923: The Treaty of Lausanne, which settled the boundaries of modern Turkey, was concluded in Switzerland.
1929: U.S. President Hoover proclaimed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounced war as an instrument of foreign policy.
1933: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his fourth "Fireside Chat."
1948: Soviet occupation forces in Germany blockaded West Berlin. The U.S.-British airlift began the following day.
1956: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis ended their team. They ended the partnership a decade after it began on July 25, 1946.
1969: The Apollo 11 astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
1974: The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor.
1978: Billy Martin was fired for the first of three times as the manager of the New York Yankees baseball team.
1984: Terry Bradshaw retired from the National Football League.
1985: Walt Disney released their 25th full-length cartoon. The work was "The Black Cauldron."
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1987: Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbed Mt. Fuji. Hulda became the oldest person to climb Japan’s highest peak.
1998: A gunman burst into U.S. Capitol and opened fire killing two police officers. Russel Weston Jr., was later ruled incompetent to stand trial.
1998: Roy O. Disney received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2003: The U.S. released pictures of the bodies of Odai and Qusai Hussein. The two died during a battle with U.S. forces near Mosul, Iraq.
