Inventor Elias Howe was awarded the patent for the lockstitch sewing machine.
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Buckingham Palace, London, was blasted during The Blitz mass air bombings by Germany.
The pilot episode of the science-fiction series 'The X-Files' aired on FOX in the US & Canada.
Archaeologists and scientists discovered a new human-like species inside caves in South Africa.
Mike the Headless Chicken lost his head.
The Treaty of Amity and Commerce was signed between the Kingdom of Prussia and the United States of America.