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2019 ‐
Poet John Milton's own copy of Shakespeare's First Folio of 1623 has survived with his annotations according to scholar Jason Scott-Warren in Philadelphia library, could be world's most important modern literary discovery
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2000 ‐
US Open Women's Tennis: Venus Williams wins her first US title; beats fellow American Lindsay Davenport 6-4, 7-5
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1975 ‐
Viking 2 Mars probe launches
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1967 ‐
1st successful Test flight of a Saturn V
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1963 ‐
Alabama Governor George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools
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1926 ‐
National Broadcasting Company (NBC) created by Radio Corporation of America
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1904 ‐
Mounted police 1st used in NYC
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1888 ‐
Easter Island / Rapa Nui in the Pacific is annexed by Chile
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1839 ‐
English scientist and astronomer John Herschel takes 1st glass plate photograph
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1776 ‐
Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America (from the United Colonies)
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1767 ‐
Colegio de San Ignacio de Loyola Vizcaínas - the oldest continuously operating educational institution in Mexico, opens for the education of girls and women in Mexico City
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1753 ‐
1st steam engine arrives in north American colonies
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