Colorado's Grand Canyon, probably the most famous landmark of the United States, can be the highpoint of your Western vacation.

Jones came toward them fast, now, along the southern toe of the Reef, and the dogs could be heard plainly, Old John with his Grand Canyon voice outstanding above the others.

In the Southwest, mountain ranges, rivers and, most obviously, the Grand Canyon can be significant barriers for human communities, likely reducing the frequency of contact with other groups.

A modern landscape artist, painting the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

Other locations and landmarks that have become part of American folklore include: Independence Hall, Ellis Island, Hoover Dam, Pearl Harbor, the Vietnam War Memorial, and the Grand Canyon.

* 2012: Honorary Doctorate Degree of Music and Performance – Grand Canyon University

After World War II increasing encroachment on wilderness land evoked the continued resistance of conservationists, who succeeded in blocking a number of projects in the 1950s and 1960s, including the proposed Bridge Canyon Dam that would have backed up the waters of the Colorado River into the Grand Canyon National Park.

* 1919 – President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of the U. S. Congress establishing most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park ( see Grand Canyon National Park ).

Stretching of units can result in their thinning ; in fact, there is a location within the Maria Fold and Thrust Belt in which the entire sedimentary sequence of the Grand Canyon can be seen over a length of less than a meter.

The sedimentary sequences of the mid-continental United States and the Grand Canyon in the southwestern United States contain almost-undeformed stacks of sedimentary rocks that have remained in place since Cambrian time.

In many places, the Grand Canyon in the southwestern United States being a very visible example, the lower rock units were metamorphosed and deformed, and then deformation ended and the upper, undeformed units were deposited.

Rockfall in the Grand Canyon

*** Geology of the Grand Canyon area ( Arizona )

The elders of the Hopi people believe that a Sipapu entrance in the Grand Canyon exists which leads to the underworld.

* 1956 – A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash, killing all 128 on board both planes.

* 1908 – Grand Canyon National Monument is created.

In 1967, he joined Karl Swenson, Pat Conway, and Dick Foran in the nostalgic western dramatic film Brighty of the Grand Canyon, about a burro who lived in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River from about 1892-1922.

* Brighty of the Grand Canyon ( 1967 )

* Clarke Historical Library, Central, Michigan University, Bibliography for Grand Traverse County

* Clarke Historical Library, Central, Michigan University, Bibliography for Grand Traverse County

* 1866 – The Grand Army of the Republic, an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War, is founded.

* 1965 – Frank Black, American singer-songwriter ( Pixies, Frank Black and the Catholics, and Grand Duchy )

* 1810 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.

* 1919 – Murray Grand, American singer-songwriter and pianist ( d. 2007 )

* 1506 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Crimean Khanate in the Battle of Kletsk

* 1783 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia ( d. 1801 )

* 1955 – Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

* 1642 – Cosimo III de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( d. 1723 )

Albert of Prussia (; ) ( 17 May 1490 – 20 March 1568 ) was the 37th and last sovereign Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights and, after converting to Lutheranism, the first duke of the Duchy of Prussia, which was the first state to adopt the Lutheran faith and Protestantism as the official state religion.

Alexander (; ) ( 5 August 1461 – 19 August 1506 ) of the House of Jagiellon was the Grand Duke of Lithuania and later also King of Poland.

* Alexander Nevsky ( 1220 – 1263 ), Prince of Novgorod and Grand Prince of Vladimir

* Alexander Jagiellon ( 1461 – 1506 ), Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland

* 1810 – Battle of Grand Port – the French accept the surrender of a British Navy fleet.

* 1979 – An IRA bomb explodes on the Grand Place in Brussels.

* 1789 – Stéphanie de Beauharnais, French wife of Charles, Grand Duke of Baden ( d. 1860 )

* 1827 – Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia ( d. 1894 )

* 1842 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia ( d. 1849 )

* 1870 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia ( d. 1891 )

* 1917 – Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia ( d. 1992 )

* 1920 – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey ( TBMM ) is founded in Ankara.

* 1997 – The Red River Flood of 1997 overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota.

* 1574 – Cosimo I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( b. 1519 )

* Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India ( GCSI ) – 1885