Inventor Otis Tufts patented the first elevator in the US.
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Vice President Gerald Ford was sworn in as the 38th President of the United States after Richard Nixon handed in his resignation.
American sea Captain Robert Gray returned to Boston after a three-year journey commanding the ship Columbia Rediviva.
American forces made a second attack on Japan during World War II and dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
An inflatable chicken that resembled US President Donald Trump was placed outside the US White House as part of a political protest.
Child actress Jennette McCurdy released her book 'I'm Glad My Mom Died.'
