Tuesday, the Dow was up 120.74 points (0.66%) at 18,347.67, the NASDAQ increased 34.18 points (0.69%) to 5,022.82, and the S&P 500 closed 14.98 points (0.70%) higher at 2,152.14. The Russell 2000 climbed 15.85 points (1.33%) to 1,205.88, and the Wilshire 5000 gained 172.47 points (0.78%) to finish at 22,309.29.

On the NYSE, 3.1 billion shares changed hands, and on the NASDAQ, 2.7 billion shares traded, with advancing issues outnumbering declining issues more than 2 to 1 on both exchanges.

ON THIS DATE: In 1585, a group of 108 English colonists, led by Sir Richard Grenville, reached Roanoke Island, North Carolina. In 1754, at the beginning of the French and Indian War, George Washington surrendered the small, circular Fort Necessity in southwestern Pennsylvania to the French. In 1787, the U.S. Congress, under the Articles of Confederation, enacted the Northwest Ordinance, which established the rules for governing the Northwest Territory, for admitting new states to the Union and limiting the expansion of slavery. In 1863, opponents of the Civil War draft began three days of rioting in New York City, which resulted in more than 1,000 casualties. In 1954, in Geneva, the United States, Great Britain and France reached an accord on Indochina which divided Vietnam into two countries, North and South, along the 17th parallel.