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1787 - Andrew Jackson admitted to the bar.

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1787 - Birth of Sir Samuel Cunard founder (first regular Atlantic steamship line).

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1789 - North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state.

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1791 - Colonel Napoleon Bonaparte is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic.

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1794 - Honolulu Harbor discovered.

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1817 - Birth of Richard B Garnett Brigadier General, killed during Pickett's charge.

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1818 - Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine.

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1824 - First Jewish Reform congregation established, Charleston, South Carolina.

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1837 - Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times.

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1847 - Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200.

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