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- 1993
Pizza Hut blimp deflates, lands safely in NYC View Post →
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- 1894
Elwood Haynes tests one of 1st US autos
- 2009
Statue of Liberty's crown reopens after 8 years
- 1803
Louisiana Purchase announced by President Jefferson
- 1865
Alice in Wonderland published for the first time
- 1996
Hot Mail, free internet E-mail service, begins
- 1848
Cornerstone for Washington Monument laid
- 1997
Mars Pathfinder, unmanned spacecraft, lands on Mars
- 1817
Construction starts on the Erie Canal
- 1776
Declaration of Independence proclaimed by US Congress
- 1960
50-star flag for Hawaiian statehood unfurled
- 1888
1st organized rodeo competition in Prescott, Arizona
- 1866
Fire in Portland, Maine destroys half the city
- 1969
Ohio Fireworks Derecho kills 18, destroys 100+ boats
- 2019
World's biggest seaweed bloom, Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt
- 1934
Leo Szilard patents atomic bomb chain-reaction design
- 2019
Tutankhamun bust sells for $6m, Egypt claims it's stolen
- 1939
Lou Gehrig retires from major league baseball
- 1826
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die
- 1785
James Hutton reads his theory of uniformitarianism
- 2019
Largest earthquake in California in 20 years occurs
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