The Wright Brothers were granted a patent for their “flying machine” after applying for it three years earlier.
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The Trevi Fountain, one of Rome's most famous landmarks, was opened to the public by Pope Clement XIII.
Senator Brooks from South Carolina used a cane to hit a Massachusetts Senator, Charles Sumner, after Sumner criticized slave owners.
Namco installed the first Pac-Man arcade machine in Shibuya, Tokyo.
Abraham Lincoln received a patent for a device that would lift a boat over shoals and obstructions.
Two new moons of Saturn were found in photos from the Hubble Space Telescope by Astronomers Amanda S. Bosh and Andrew S. Rivkin.
