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Famous People Born On This Day In History
1769 Duke of Wellington, who made Napoleon very unhappy.
1830 Mary Harris Jones, (Mother Jones), hellraiser.
1907 Kate Smith
1916 Glenn Ford, actor.
1959 Eddie Johnson, basketball player Houston Rockets, guard #8.
1966 Tim McGraw, singer.
Events On This Day In History
1840 First adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued.
1850 John Geary becomes first mayor of City of San Francisco.
1860 First school for the deaf founded.
1869 Folies-Bergere opens in Paris.
1884 Construction begins in Chicago on the first U.S. skyscraper.
1892 U.S. quarantine station opens on Angel Island.
1928 Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)
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