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| 1829 |
William Austin Burt of Mount Vernon, Mich., received a patent for his typographer, a forerunner of the typewriter.
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| 1885 |
Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, died in Mount McGregor, N.Y., at age 63.
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| 1904 |
By some accounts, the ice cream cone was invented by Charles E. Menches during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis.
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| 1945 |
French Marshal Henri Petain, who had headed the Vichy government during World War II, went on trial, charged with treason.
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| 1952 |
Egyptian military officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser overthrew King Farouk I.
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| 1967 |
Rioting that claimed some 43 lives erupted in Detroit.
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| 1984 |
Vanessa Williams became the first Miss America to resign her title, because of nude photographs published in Penthouse magazine.
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| 1986 |
Britain's Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey in London. (The couple divorced in 1996.)
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| 1997 |
Police found the body of Andrew Cunanan, the suspected killer of designer Gianni Versace and others, on a houseboat in Miami Beach, Fla., an apparent suicide.
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| 2000 |
Tiger Woods became the youngest golfer to complete a career Grand Slam when he won the British Open at age 24.
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| 2001 |
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Eudora Welty died in Jackson, Miss., at age 92.
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| 2003 |
Massachusetts' attorney general issued a report saying clergy members and others in the Boston Archdiocese probably sexually abused more than 1,000 people over six decades.
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