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The gramophone was patented in 1887. | 2
The first successful open-heart surgery took place in 1952. | 3
The Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783, formally granting the U.S. independence from Britain. | 4
Historical fiction novelist Mary Renault was born in 1905. | 5
Sylvanus Bowser, inventor of the first U.S. gas pump, made his first sale to a service station in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1885. | 6
Mexican President Vicente Fox became the first Mexican leader in a decade to address a joint session of the U.S. Congress in 2001. |
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Guillaume Apollinaire was arrested for allegedly stealing the Mona Lisa in 1911. | 8
Today is International Literacy Day. | 9
Frances Folsom Cleveland, the wife of President Grover Cleveland, gave birth to daughter Esther in the White House in 1893. | 10
Tennis great Steffi Graf of West Germany won the U.S. Open women's final in 1988, earning her the first women's Grand Slam title since 1970. | 11
The World Trade Center and United States Pentagon were attacked by Islamist terrorists in 2001. | 12
The famous Lascaux cave paintings were discovered near Montignac, France, in 1940. | 13
Undersea explorer Robert Ballard announced the discovery of the remains of an ancient building in the Black Sea in 2000. |
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The United States Senate approved legislation to extend the scope of workers qualifying for protection under the minimum wage law in 1966. | 15
National Hispanic Heritage Month begins. | 16
Television viewers were taken on a live expedition inside the Great Pyramid at Giza in 2002. | 17
Constitution Day. Members of the Constitutional Convention signed the U.S. Constitution in 1787. | 18
Their Eyes Were Watching God, a novel by Zora Neale Hurston, was published in 1937. | 19
Japanese poet Masaoka Shiki died in 1902. | 20
The first Cannes Film Festival was held on this day in 1946. |
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Stretch the Ostrich, a Ty Beanie Baby, was "born" in 1997. | 22
Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862. | 23
Today is the autumnal equinox. | 24
Beloved children's book author Dr. Seuss died in 1991. | 25
Shel Silverstein was born in 1930. | 26
Jonathan Chapman, better known as "Johnny Appleseed," was born in 1775. | 27
The Warren Commission's report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was released in 1964. |
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William the Conqueror invaded England in 1066. | 29
Miguel de Cervantes was born in 1547. | 30
Louis Armstrong arrived in New York City to join the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra in 1924. | | | | |
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