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This Day In History
1493
Columbus mistakes manatees for mermaids.
1788
Connecticut became the 5th state in the United States.
1854
Astor Library opens in New York City, later to become the New York Public Library.
1905
The Russian Revolution of 1905 was sparked by troops firing on petitioners to Czar Nicholas in St. Petersburg.
1968
Surveyor 7, the last of America's unmanned lunar probes, landed on the Moon.
Famous Birthdays
1875
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American sculptor & arts patron who founded Whitney Museum in New York City
1908
Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer
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