1961
Shepard goes sky high and then some
Alan Shepard became the first American in space.
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1809
Mary Kies of South Killingly, Conn., became the first woman to be granted a patent. The patent was for the rights to a technique for weaving straw with silk and thread.
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1821
Napoleon Bonaparte died on the island of St. Helena.
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1891
Carnegie Hall (then known as Music Hall) opened in New York City. Peter Tchaikovsky was the guest conductor.
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1925
John Scopes was arrested in Tennessee for teaching Darwinism.
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1981
Bobby Sands of the Irish Republican Army died in a prison hospital on the 66th day of his hunger strike.
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2004
Pablo Picasso's "Boy with a Pipe" became the most expensive painting ever sold.
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