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| 1756 |
Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria. |
| 1832 |
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” under the pen name Lewis Carroll, was born in Cheshire, England. |
| 1880 |
Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp. |
| 1885 |
Broadway composer Jerome Kern was born in New York City. |
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| 1944 |
The Soviet Union announced the end of the deadly German siege of Leningrad, which had lasted for more than two years. |
| 1951 |
The era of atomic testing in the Nevada desert began. |
| 1967 |
Astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo 1 spacecraft at Cape Kennedy, Fla. |
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| 1967 |
More than 60 nations signed a treaty banning the orbiting of nuclear weapons. |
| 1973 |
The Vietnam peace accords were signed in Paris. |
| 1998 |
First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, appearing on NBC’s “Today” show, said that allegations against her husband were the work of a “vast right-wing conspiracy.” |
| 2010 |
Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad tablet computer during a presentation in San Francisco. |
| 2010 |
J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of “The Catcher in the Rye,” died in Cornish, N.H. at age 91. |
