Tuesday, the Dow was up 184.84 points (0.71%) at 26,246.96, the NASDAQ was up 60.32 points (0.76%) at 7,956.11, and the S&P 500 was up 15.51 points (0.54%) at 2,904.31. The Russell 2000 closed 7.42 points (0.44%) higher at 1,710.97, and the Wilshire 5000 increased 157.67 points (0.52%) to 30,226.39.

ON THIS DATE: In 1862, Union troops under General William Rosecrans defeated a Confederate force commanded by General Sterling Price at Iuka in northern Mississippi. In 1876, Melville R. Bissell patented the carpet sweeper. In 1881, 80 days after a failed office seeker shot him in Washington, D.C., President James A. Garfield died of complications from his wounds. In 1957, the United States detonated a 1.7 kiloton nuclear weapon in an underground tunnel at the Nevada Test Site (NTS), a 1,375 square mile research center located 65 miles north of Las Vegas. In 1970, “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” premiered on CBS-TV. In 1988, just one day after sustaining a head injury in a frightening accident, American diver Greg Louganis won gold in the springboard competition at the Summer Olympics, in Seoul, South Korea. It was his second consecutive Olympic gold in the event. In 1995, The Washington Post published a 35,000-word manifesto written by the Unabomber, who since the late 1970s had eluded authorities while carrying out a series of bombings across the United States that killed 3 people and injured another 23.