Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis patented the first blue jeans with copper rivets.
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Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland.
The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope was shown to members of the National Federation of Women's Club.
The Church of Scotland voted in favor of allowing openly gay men and women to be ministers.
The US Air Force Space Command launched the Boeing X-37B spaceplane for a classified mission.
The chandelier of the Palais Garnier Opera House broke, and its debris fell on a crowd.
