Inventor Frederick E. Blaisdell patented the pencil in the US.
He called it “sheathing with paper sheaths.”
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The University of Warsaw, Poland, was founded as a Royal University following the Partitions of Poland.
Pelé, the legendary Brazilian soccer star, scored his 1,000th goal.
A meteorite weighing 8kg landed southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
One of the greatest speeches of all American history, The Gettysburg Address, was given by Abraham Lincoln.
Television broadcasting company CBS banned a Calvin Klein Jeans advertisement.
