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Jonathan Swift, Irish writer (Gulliver's Travels) died (1745)

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British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown, which proved to be the last major engagement of the Revolutionary War (1781)

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Elizabeth Blackwell graduated from Geneva Medical College, becoming the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States (1849)

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Napoleon’s troops began retreating from Moscow (1812)

Martin Luther King Jr. and 52 others were arrested in sit-down demonstration in Atlanta (1960)

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Thomas A. Edison successfully demonstrated the electric light (1879)

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Star Spangled Banner was first sung (1814)