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12 people were trampled to death in a stampede sparked by a rumor that the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge was in danger of collapsing.
In 1883,
In 1911,
The first Indy 500 took place at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway; the winner was Ray Harroun, who drove a Marmon Wasp for more than 61⁄2 hours at an average speed of 74.6 mph and collected a prize of $10,000.
In 1912,
aviation pioneer Wilbur Wright, 45, died in Dayton, Ohio, of typhoid fever more than eight years after he and his brother, Orville, launched their first airplane.
In 1922,
the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., was dedicated in a ceremony attended by President Warren G. Harding, Chief Justice William Howard Taft and Robert Todd Lincoln.
In 1937,
10 people were killed when police fired on steelworkers demonstrating near the Republic Steel plant in South Chicago.
In 1943,
during World War II, American troops secured the Aleutian island of Attu from Japanese forces.
In 2002,
a solemn, wordless ceremony marked the end of the cleanup at ground zero in New York, 81⁄2 months after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba, was seen leaving a hotel room in Lima, Peru, where the body of 21year-old Stephany Flores was found three days later. (Van der Sloot later confessed to murdering Flores, and is serving a 28-year prison sentence.)
Vice President Joe Biden’s son, former Delaware attorney general Beau Biden, died at age 46 of brain cancer.
President Donald Trump said he was slapping a 5% tariff on all Mexican imports to pressure the country to do more to crack down on Central American migrants trying to cross the U.S. border.
Associated Press