The first Walmart store opened in Rogers, Arkansas.
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American aviator Amelia Earhart disappeared.
North and South Vietnam were formally reunified after more than twenty years of war.
Inventor Thomas Savery patented the first steam engine in England.
Charles J. Guiteau shot US President James A. Garfield in Washington, D.C.
During a thunderstorm in Charleston, South Carolina, the National Weather Service reported an alligator falling from the sky.
