Inventor Thomas Savery patented the first steam engine in England.
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American aviator Amelia Earhart disappeared.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by US President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Inventor Benjamin J. Lane patented the first self-contained gas mask.
The International Astronomical Union named Pluto's fourth and fifth moons Kerberos and Styx.
North and South Vietnam were formally reunified after more than twenty years of war.
