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| 1822 | - | Fla became a US territory |
| 1842 | - | Dr. Crawford Long - 1st physician to USE [stampsma_ss]ther as anesthetic |
| 1858 | - | Hyman Lipman of Phila patents a pencil with attached eraser |
| 1867 | - | US purchases Alaska for $7 -200 -000 (Seward\s Folly) |
| 1870 | - | 15th Amendment passes - guarantees right to vote regardless of race |
| 1870 | - | Tx readmitted to US after Civil War |
| 1909 | - | Queensboro Bridge opens linking Manhattan & Queens |
| 1932 | - | Amelia Earhart 1st woman to solo cross the Atlantic |
| 1945 | - | USSR invades Austria during WW II |
| 1948 | - | Mahatma Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi |
| 1948 | - | Mahatma Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi |
| 1950 | - | Phototransistor invention announced - Murray Hill - NJ |
| 1961 | - | P.J Melotte - discovered Jupiter\s 8th satellite Pasiphae - dies |
| 1964 | - | John Glenn withdrew from Ohio senate race |
| 1973 | - | Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to S Vietnam |
| 1981 | - | Pres Reagan shot & wounded by John W Hinckley Jr |
| 1982 | - | 3rd Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 3 returns to Earth |
| 1984 | - | US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force |
| 1986 | - | James Cagney dies at his Stanfordville NY farm at 86 |
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