Inventor Otis Tufts patented the first elevator in the US.
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Inventor Robert Fulton tested his 66-foot long boat on River Seine in Paris, France.
Engineer Alva J. Fisher patented the electric washing machine.
The USSR launched the Mars 7 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in modern-day Kazakhstan.
Admiral Cornelis Evertsen de Jonge led Dutch forces to recapture New York from the English.
The Free Soil Party was formed by 465 delegates in Buffalo.
