American inventor Eli Whitney was granted a patent for a ground-breaking new type of cotton gin.
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US best-selling cookie ''Oreo" trademarked its name.
Dolly Parton attempted to refuse a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nomination.
The first theater with a movie being projected from the back of the room was opened in New York City.
Finland became the world's happiest country.
Google employee Emma Haruka Iwao broke a world record by calculating Pi right down to 31.4 trillion digits!
