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Famous People Born On This Day In History
1867 Madame Marie Curie, discovered radium.
1918 Billy Graham, televangelist.
1922 Al Hirt
1943 Joni Mitchell
Events On This Day In History
1805 Lewis and Clark first sighted the Pacific Ocean.
1811 Battle of Tippecanoe, gives Harrison a presidential slogan.
1874 First cartoon to use the elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party appears in Harper's Weekly. It was drawn by Thomas Nast.
1875 Verney Cameron is first European to cross equatorial Africa from sea to sea.
1885 Canada completes its own transcontinental railway.
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