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Day In History
1498
On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
1703
Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
1790
The very first U.S. patent is issued: to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
1865
The first narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Australia.
1930
The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time.
1938
Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
1964
Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
1970
Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
1999
NASA intentionally crashes the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the Moon, completing its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.
Famous
Birthdays
1598
Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor and architect (d. 1654)
1803
John Ericsson, Swedish inventor and engineer (d. 1889)
1835
Paul du Chaillu, French explorer (d. 1903)
1901
Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (d. 1985)
1912
Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2006)
1923
Ahmet Ertegun, Turkish-born record company executive (d. 2006)
1950
Steve Miller, American writer
1962
Wesley Snipes, American actor
1965
J. K. Rowling, British writer
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