Inventor William Austin Burt patented the typographer, also known as the typewriter in the US.
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Benjamin Franklin sailed from England back to the US to work for a Quaker merchant in Philadelphia.
Forty-three people were killed in the Detroit Riots, one of the worst riots in US history.
Eileen Collins became the first female space shuttle commander with the launch of mission STS-93.
The Chinese Communist Party was founded in Shanghai.
The first US woman in space, Sally Ride, died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 61.