ON THIS DAY

1799: France’s Napoleon Bonaparte defeats Turks at Aboukir in Egypt.

1847: Brigham Young and the first Mormons arrive at Great Salt Lake in present-day Utah.

1911: Yale University professor Hiram Bingham discovers Inca city Machu Picchu in Peru.

1942: British bombers devastate German cities of Frankfurt and Mannheim in WWII.

1946: US makes first underwater test of an atomic bomb off Bikini atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

1969: The US Apollo 11 astronauts, the first men to walk on Moon, splash down safely in the Pacific Ocean.

1997: After 290 years of union, the British government offers Scots the power to legislate, to tax and to speak for themselves in the EU.

Birthdays: Alexandre Dumas, French writer (1802-1870); Amelia Earhart, US aviation pioneer (1898-1937); Jennifer Lopez, US singer (1968-).