Inventor William Austin Burt patented the typographer, also known as the typewriter in the US.
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Forty-three people were killed in the Detroit Riots, one of the worst riots in US history.
The Chinese Communist Party was founded in Shanghai.
Italian Artist Caravaggio signed his first commission contract to paint the Contarelli Chapel in the French church in Rome.
NASA announced they had found 'Earth's bigger, older cousin.'
The first US woman in space, Sally Ride, died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 61.
