Today In History

Fri., July 24, 1998

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 Civil War.

1929: President Hoover proclaimed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounced war as an instrument of foreign policy.

1937: The state of Alabama dropped charges against five black men accused of raping two white women in the Scottsboro Case.

1969: The Apollo XI astronauts, including the first two men to set foot on the moon, splashed down safely in the Pacific.

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.

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