The Mississippi River is rocked by earthquakes, Baltimore burns, Chaplin debuts "The Tramp," The Beatles arrive in America, and space shuttle astronauts make the first untethered spacewalk, all on this day.
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2001: Actress and singer Dale Evans, the third wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers, dies of congestive heart failure at the age of 88 in Apple Valley, Calif. Evans and Rogers formed a team on- and off-screen from 1946 until Rogers' death in 1998. She's seen here with Rogers at the Academy Awards in 1989.