HOY EN LA HISTORIA SEGUN EL NEW YORK TIMES On This Date By The Associated Press 1783 Revolutionary Simon Bolivar was born in Caracas, Venezuela. 1847 Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake in present-day Utah. 1862 Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States, died in Kinderhook, N.Y., at age 79. 1866 Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War. 1937 The state of Alabama dropped charges against five black men accused of raping two white women in the Scottsboro case. 1959 During a visit to the Soviet Union, Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev compared the merits of capitalism and communism in the kitchen debate, so-named because it took place at a model kitchen at a U.S. exhibition. 1969 Apollo 11, the first manned mission to the moon, splashed down safely in the Pacific. 1979 A Miami jury convicted Ted Bundy of first-degree murder in the slayings of two Florida State University sorority sisters. 1990 Iraq massed tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks along its border with Kuwait. 1997 Retired Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan died at age 91. 2002 The U.S. House expelled Rep. James Traficant, D-Ohio, who had been convicted of bribery, racketeering and tax evasion. 2005 Lance Armstrong won a seventh consecutive Tour de France.
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