On This Date By The Associated Press 1830 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was organized by Joseph Smith in Fayette, N.Y. 1896 The first modern Olympic Games opened in Athens, Greece. 1909 Explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson purportedly became the first men to reach the North Pole. (The exact location they reached has since been called into question.) 1971 Composer Igor Stravinsky died at age 88. 1983 Interior Secretary James Watt banned the Beach Boys from the 4th of July celebration on the Washington Mall, saying rock n roll bands attract the wrong element. 1992 Science fiction author Isaac Asimov died at age 72. 1998 The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 9,000 points for the first time. 1998 Pakistan successfully tested a medium-range missile capable of striking neighboring India. 2001 Algerian national Ahmed Ressam, accused of bringing explosives into the United States days before the millennium celebrations, was convicted on terror charges. 2004 Jordans military court convicted eight Muslim militants and sentenced them to death for the 2002 killing of U.S. aid official Laurence Foley in a terror conspiracy linked to al-Qaida. 2004 The University of Connecticut became the first school to win the NCAA Division I mens and womens basketball titles in the same season as the womens team beat Tennessee 70-61 for their third consecutive championship. 2005 Prince Rainier III of Monaco died at age 81. 2011 Portugal became the third debt-stressed European country to need a bailout as the prime minister announced his country would request international assistance.
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