The first Walmart store opened in Rogers, Arkansas.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by US President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Inventor Benjamin J. Lane patented the first self-contained gas mask.
The Salvation Army was founded in London by Methodist preacher William Booth and his wife, Catherine Booth.
During a thunderstorm in Charleston, South Carolina, the National Weather Service reported an alligator falling from the sky.
Charles J. Guiteau shot US President James A. Garfield in Washington, D.C.
