The Grand Canyon National Monument was created.
It was the fifteenth site in the US to be named a national park.
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The first Jewish person was elected in the US.
England drew it's very first lottery outside St Paul's Cathedral.
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling officially finished writing The Deathly Hallows.
Samuel Morse sent the first telegraph message using Morse code across two miles of wire in New Jersey, USA.
The ruins of an ancient lost city were discovered in eastern Ecuador.
