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1682 Louis XIV & his court inaugurate Paris Observatory

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1701 England - Wales & Scotland form UK of Great Britain

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1840 1st adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued

1841 1st wagon train leaves Independance - Mo for Cal

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1860 1st school for deaf founded

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1873 1st US postal card issued

1884 Construction begins on Chicago 1st skyscraper

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1890 May Day

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1928 Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)

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1931 Empire State Building opens in NYC

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1947 Radar for coml & private planes 1st demonstrated

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1948 Dem People's Rep of Korea (N Korea) established

1949 Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid - (2nd satellite of Neptune)

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1961 1st US airplane hijacked to Cuba

1964 1st BASIC program run on a computer (Dartmouth)

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1769 Duke of Wellington born, (C) victor at Waterloo British PM (1828-30)

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Malcolm Scott Carpenter born, Mercury astronaut (Aurora 7)

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