Inventor William Austin Burt patented the typographer, also known as the typewriter in the US.
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The first lighthouse in America was given the green light to be built at Little Brewster Island, Massachusetts.
The first US woman in space, Sally Ride, died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 61.
Benjamin Franklin sailed from England back to the US to work for a Quaker merchant in Philadelphia.
NASA announced they had found 'Earth's bigger, older cousin.'
British boyband One Direction was formed during X-Factor UK.
