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| 1629 | - | Royal charter grants Mass Bay Colony |
| 1644 | - | England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now RI) |
| 1743 | - | 1st American town meeting (Boston\s Faneuil Hall) |
| 1794 | - | Eli Whitney patents cotton gin |
| 1855 | - | 1st train crosses Niagara suspension bridge |
| 1870 | - | Calif legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible |
| 1883 | - | Karl Marx dies |
| 1896 | - | Sutro Baths opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1 - 1952) |
| 1900 | - | US currency goes on gold standard |
| 1903 | - | 1st natl bird reservation established in Sebastian - FL |
| 1923 | - | Pres Harding became 1st pres filing income tax report |
| 1931 | - | 1st theatre built for rear movie projection (NYC) |
| 1935 | - | 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars |
| 1948 | - | Freedom Train arrives in SF |
| 1951 | - | During Korean War - UN forces recaptured Seoul |
| 1964 | - | Dallas jury finds Jack Ruby guilty of Lee Harvey Oswald murder |
| 1965 | - | Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with W Germany |
| 1967 | - | JFK\s body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial |
| 1975 | - | Susan Hayward dies at 56 |
| 1980 | - | Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers) |
| 1983 | - | OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years |
| 1986 | - | European Space Agency\s Giotto flies by Halley\s Comet (540 km) |
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