Associated Press

On July 24, 1847, Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in present- day Utah.

In 1866, Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War.

In 1911, Yale University history professor Hiram Bingham III found the “Lost City of the Incas,” Machu Picchu, in Peru.

In 1959, during a visit to Moscow, Vice President Richard Nixon engaged in his famous “Kitchen Debate” with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.

In 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts — two of whom had been the first men to set foot on the moon — splashed down safely in the Pacific.

In 1998, the movie “Saving Private Ryan” was released.

In 2016, Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.