Oregon became the 33rd state to join the United States of America.
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Ellen Page received a standing ovation after her emotional coming out speech at the Human Rights Campaign ''Time to Thrive.”
Alexander Graham Bell applied for a patent for the telephone.
Whitney Houston's self-titled album was released.
Hundreds of Jews in Strasbourg, France, were publicly burnt to death.
The discovery of Earth's wobbling motion on its axis was presented to the Royal Society, London, in a letter written by astronomer James Bradley.
