Engineer Alva J. Fisher patented the electric washing machine.
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The USSR launched the Mars 7 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in modern-day Kazakhstan.
American forces made a second attack on Japan during World War II and dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
Inventor Robert Fulton tested his 66-foot long boat on River Seine in Paris, France.
Vice President Gerald Ford was sworn in as the 38th President of the United States after Richard Nixon handed in his resignation.
Admiral Cornelis Evertsen de Jonge led Dutch forces to recapture New York from the English.
