Inventor Frederick E. Blaisdell patented the pencil in the US.
He called it “sheathing with paper sheaths.”
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A meteorite weighing 8kg landed southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
The British poet Alfred Lord Tennyson became Britain's Poet Laureate.
Christopher Columbus discovered Puerto Rico on his second voyage.
One of the greatest speeches of all American history, The Gettysburg Address, was given by Abraham Lincoln.
The Nintendo Wii was released in the US.
