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1875 - Birth of James Cash Penney department store founder (J.C. Penney).

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1877 - Birth of James J Jeans cosmologist/astrophysicist (Mysterious Universe).

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1880 - Birth of Alfred Noyes England, poet (The Highwayman).

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1885 - Puritan (US) beats Genesta (England) in 6th running of America's Cup.

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1887 - Birth of Nadia Boulanger Paris, music teacher (Lasiréne Ideology).

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1887 - The first game of softball is played in Chicago, Illinois.

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1888 - Birth of Frans Sillanpää Finland, writer (Meek Heritage-Nobel Prize 1939).

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1890 - Newswriter George Whitney Calhoun names Green Bay team the Packers.

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1893 - Birth of Albert Szent-Györgyi Hungary, biochemist (Nobel Prize 1937).

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1893 - Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma opened to white settlement homesteaders.

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