Inventor Frederick E. Blaisdell patented the pencil in the US.
He called it “sheathing with paper sheaths.”
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The People's Republic of China launched Shenzhou 1, the first uncrewed Shenzhou spacecraft.
The Nintendo Wii was released in the US.
Pope Hilarius became the Bishop of Rome.
One of the greatest speeches of all American history, The Gettysburg Address, was given by Abraham Lincoln.
The University of Warsaw, Poland, was founded as a Royal University following the Partitions of Poland.
