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1714 a patent was granted to the English engineer Henry Mill for his typewriter design.

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1785 Blanchard and Jeffries made the first hot-air balloon crossing of the Channel.

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1789 the first nationwide election was held in America, with George Washington elected as president.

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1827 Sandford Fleming, Scottish engineer who divided the world into time zones, was born.

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1955 Marian Anderson was placed under contract by the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the first African-American to be so engaged.

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1999 the impeachment trial of President Clinton began in Washington.