American inventor Eli Whitney was granted a patent for a ground-breaking new type of cotton gin.
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German inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin granted a patent for the navigable balloon.
Finland became the world's happiest country.
President Warren G. Harding became the first president to pay taxes in the US.
Boston became the first American city to have a town meeting.
Dolly Parton attempted to refuse a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nomination.
