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- 1962
Sam Walton opens first Walmart store View Post →
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- 2015
BP agrees to compensate $18.7 billion for 2010 oil spill
- 1843
Alligator falls from sky in Charleston, South Carolina
- 1947
Object crashes near Roswell, NM
- 1982
Larry Walters uses lawn chair & balloons to rise to 16,000'
- 1890
Idaho is admitted as 43rd US state
- 2019
Rediscovered Lewis chess piece sells for £735,000 in London
- 1776
New Jersey grants voting rights for £50 net worth adults
- 2018
British divers discover 12 boys and their coach in Thailand cave
- 1850
Benjamin Lane patents a gas mask with a breathing apparatus
- 1937
Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific
- 2002
Steve Fossett completes solo around-the-world Balloon Flight
- 1903
Ed Delahanty disappears, found dead at Niagara Falls later
- 1993
Boat sinks at Bocaue, Philippines, 325 die
- 1698
Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine
- 1881
President Garfield is shot by Charles Guiteau
- 1901
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid rob a train
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