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Famous People Born On This Day In History
1759 Robert Burns, the Scottish poet.
1874 Somerset Maugham, poet.
1882 Virginia Woolf, author, and someone to be afraid of.
1919 Edwin Newman
Events On This Day In History
1858 Mendelssohn's Wedding March first played, at wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter to the Crown Prince of Prussia.
1915 Alexander Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
1945 Grand Rapids, MI. becomes first city to add flouride to its water supply.
1949 First Emmy Awards are given out.
1959 First transcontinental commercial jet flight (LA to NY for $301).
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