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On this date, 1849, Abraham Lincoln received a patent (only US President to do so) for a device…
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On this date in 1819 the first bicycles in the US, called swift walkers, were debuted in…
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On this date in 1609, William Shakespeare's Sonnets were first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by publisher…
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On this date in 1618, German astronomer Johannes Keplerdiscovered the third of his three planetary laws, the…
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On this date in 1607, English colonists led by John Smith establish Jamestown at a second landing…
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1780 William Herschel discovers the first binary star system, Xi Ursae Majoris. Xi Ursae Majoris . .…
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On this date in 1786, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera "The Marriage of Figaro" premiered in Vienna…
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On this date in 1789 George Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the United States of…
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On this date in history a Flemish woman introduced something that has caused undue hardship…