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Famous People Born On This Day In History
1912 Woodie Guthrie
1913 Gerald R. Ford, 38th President from (1974 - 1976).
1918 Jay Wright Forrester, invented random-access magnetic core memory.
1962 Matthew Fox, actor "Party of Five".
Events On This Day In History
1789 The citizens of Paris storm the Bastille prison.
1850 First public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration.
1853 Commodore Perry requests trade relations with the Japanese.
1865 The first ascent of the Matterhorn.
1868 Patent granted for a tape measure enclosed in a circular case.
1927 First commercial airplane flight in Hawaii.
1977 Lightning strikes New York City power lines, and leaves the city in total darkness for 25 hours.
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