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Today In History: June 15, Great Smoky Mountains becomes a national park

Also on this date, more than 1,000 people died when fire erupted aboard the steamboat PS General Slocum in New York’s East River; it remained the deadliest individual event in the New York area until 9/11.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt is dedicating the Great Smoky Mountains National Park at Newfound Gap, N.C.-Tennessee, on Sep. 2, 1940. Behind him from left to right: Paul V. McNutt, Gov. Cooper of Tennessee, Senator Reynolds of North Carolina, Senator Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee, the next two men are unidentified. Then Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Gov. Clyde Hoey of North Carolina and Mrs. Bess Hoey. Others are unidentified. (AP Photo)
President Franklin D. Roosevelt is dedicating the Great Smoky Mountains National Park at Newfound Gap, N.C.-Tennessee, on Sep. 2, 1940. Behind him from left to right: Paul V. McNutt, Gov. Cooper of Tennessee, Senator Reynolds of North Carolina, Senator Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee, the next two men are unidentified. Then Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Gov. Clyde Hoey of North Carolina and Mrs. Bess Hoey. Others are unidentified. (AP Photo)
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the most-visited national park in the United States, was established by Congress.

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