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Henry Bacon, American architect (Lincoln Memorial), born (1866)

Friedrich Engels, German social philosopher and collaborator of Karl Marx (The Communist Manifesto), born (1820)

John Bunyan, English cleric author (Pilgrim's Progress), born (1628)

William Blake, English poet and painter (Songs of Innocence & Experience), born (1757)

• Volumes of Verse: Poetry Resources on the Internet
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Jean Baptiste Lully, French composer musician, born (1632)

Washington Irving, American author (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle) died in Tarrytown, New York, at 76 (1859)

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James Naismith, inventor of basketball, died at 78 (1939)

Richard Wright, Black American author (Native Son), died in Paris at 52 (1960)

• Ten Activities Celebrate Achievements of African Americans!
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Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer passed from the Atlantic into the Pacific Ocean through the strait located at the southern tip of South America (1520)

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Lady Nancy Astor elected as the first female in the British House of Commons (1919)

First Polaroid instant film camera available for sale (1948)

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