American inventor Ogden Bolton Jr. patented the first electric-powered bicycle.
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Paul McCartney filed a lawsuit to break up The Beatles.
Evel Knievel attempted to jump the Caesar's Palace Fountain.
The British East India Trading Company was given a Royal Charter by Queen Elizabeth I.
Boris Yeltsin resigned as the President of Russia, which left Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as acting President.
A blue moon and a lunar eclipse occurred on the same day.