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1884 - Birth of Harold Vanderbilt New York, America's Cup (1930, 1934, 1937)/inv contract bridge.

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1885 - First inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur.

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1886 - Horlick's of Wisconsin offers first malted milk to public.

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1892 - Striking steelworkers in Homestead, Pennsylvania, USA fire on scabs, killing 7.

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1894 - Cleveland sends 2,000 troops to Chicago to suppress Pullman strike.

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1903 - Birth of Axel Theorell Sweden, biochemist, studied enzymes (Nobel Prize 1955).

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1903 - George Wyman arrives in New York City by motorcycle 51 days out of San Francisco.

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1904 - Birth of Robert Whitney Newcastle-on-Tyne England, conductor (Sospiro do Roma).

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1908 - Robert Peary's expedition sails from New York City for the north pole.

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1915 - Birth of Dorothy Kirsten Montclair New Jersey, soprano (A Time to Sing).

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