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Events
- 1619 – First African slaves arrive in Jamestown, Virginia.
- 1828 – Bolton and Leigh Railway opens to freight traffic.
- 1832 – The Black Hawk War ends.
- 1842 – Lombard Street Riot erupts.
- 1876 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
- 1902 – The United States buys the rights to the Panama Canal from France.
- 1941 – The first Jeep is produced.
- 1948 – The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded.
- 1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
- 1966 – Charles Whitman kills 15 people at The University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
- 1971 – Concert for Bangladesh.
- 1977 – Former Lockheed U–2 pilot Francis Gary Powers crashes the news helicopter he was flying in Los Angeles
- 1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed The Radio Star" by the Buggles.
- 1988 – Rush Limbaugh begins his national radio show.
- 1993 – The Great Flood of 1993 comes to a peak. The Mississippi River crested at St. Louis, hitting a record 49.58 feet above flood stage. The Missouri River would peak the next day (August 2) in St. Charles, Missouri at a record 39.6 feet above flood stage.
- 1996 – Michael Johnson breaks the 200m world record by 0.30 seconds with a time of 19.32 seconds at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
- 2001 – Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
- 2007 – The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapsed during the evening rush hour.