1910 - Glacier National Park in Montana was established.
1502 - Christopher Columbus left Cadiz, Spain, on his fourth and final trip to the Western Hemisphere.
1647 - Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to become governor of New Netherland.
1858 - Minnesota became the 32nd state of the Union.
1935 - the Rural Electrification Administration was created as one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt\'s New Deal programs.
1946 - the first CARE packages arrived in Europe, at Le Havre, France.
1950 - President Harry S. Truman formally dedicated the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state.
1960 - in the wake of the U-2 incident, President Dwight D. Eisenhower defended intelligence-gathering activities as \"distasteful\" but necessary, saying \"no one wants another Pearl Harbor.\"
1973 - charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the \"Pentagon Papers\" case were dismissed by Judge William M. Byrne, who cited government misconduct.
1985 - 56 people died when a flash fire swept a jam-packed soccer stadium in Bradford, England.
1996 - an Atlanta-bound ValuJet DC-9 caught fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on board.
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