The first Sears retail store opened in Chicago.
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Grand Central Terminal opened in New York City.
The Great Fall River fire destroyed many businesses downtown in Fall River, Massachusetts.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ferried a US National Reconnaissance Office payload into orbit.
Forty mummies were discovered and unearthed in Tuna el-Gebel, South Cairo, Egypt.
A polygraph test was conducted by its inventor, Leonarde Keeler, for the first time.