Edouard Manet, French Impressionist painter (A Bar at the Folies-Bergère), born (1832)

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Sergei Eisenstein, Russian innovative early film maker (Battleship Potemkin), born (1898)

Ernst Abbe, German physicist whose theoretical and technical innovations in optics led to advances in microscope design, born (1840)

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Gustave Doré, French illustrator (Inferno, Rime of Ancient Mariner), died at 51 (1883)

Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (The Scream), died at 80 (1944)

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Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh in bathyscaph reached a record depth of 35,810 feet in the Pacific's Mariana Trench (1960)

24th Amendment barring poll tax in federal elections ratified by Congress (1964)

Georgetown University founded in Washington, DC (1789)

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Humane Society of Philadelphia, first aid society, organized (1793)

Charles Curtis of Kansas became the first Native American U.S. senator (1907)

Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman physician to receive MD degree in US (at Medical Institution of Geneva, NY), born in England (1849)

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Iraq destroyed Kuwait oil fields, causing the world's largest oil spill (1991)

Jackie Robinson became the first Black player elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame (1962)

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First inductees into the Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame were Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Domino, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis & Elvis Presley (1986)

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