On June 9, 1732, James Oglethorpe received a charter from Britain’s King George II to establish the colony of Georgia.

In 1954, during the Senate Army-McCarthy hearings, Army special counsel Joseph N. Welch berated Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, a Wisconsin Republican, asking: “Have you no sense of decency, sir?”

In 1972, heavy rains triggered record flooding in the Black Hills of South Dakota that left at least 238 people dead and more than 1,300 homes destroyed.

In 1978, leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ended a policy of excluding Black men from the Mormon priesthood that had been in place for more than 125 years.

In 2013, Rafael Nadal became the first man to win eight titles at the same Grand Slam tennis tournament after beating fellow Spaniard David Ferrer in the French Open final.