Happy Birthday! Michele Bachmann, Merle Haggard, John Ratzenberger
1830 - Joseph Smith and five others organized the Mormon Church in western New York.
1896 - The first modern Olympic Games began in Athens, Greece.
1903 - French Army Nationalists were revealed for forging documents to guarantee a conviction for Alfred Dryfus.
1909 - Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson claimed to be the first men to reach the North Pole.
1916 - Charlie Chaplin became the highest-paid film star in the world when he signed a contract with Mutual Film Corporation for $675,000 a year. He was 26 years old.
1917 - The U.S. Congress approved a declaration of war on Germany and entered World War I on the Allied side.
1965 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorized the use of ground troops in combat operations in Vietnam.
1987 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 2,400 for the first time.
1998 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 9,000 points for the first time.
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