1916 – National Board of Censorship made up of film fans representing movie studios that served as an industry watchdog to help studios avoid government censorship, says it will not accept nudity in films.
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1831 – 1st US railroad honeymoon trip, Mr & Mrs Pierson, Charleston, South Carolina.
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1929 – Wyatt Earp dies in Los Angeles at the age of 80 best known for the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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1838 – First public demonstration of telegraph messages sent using dots and dashes at Speedwell Ironworks in Morristown, New Jersey by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail.
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1894 – Early 5 second film of Fred Ott sneezing shot by Edison Manufacturing – 1st ever copyrighted.
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1939 – MLB catcher Roy Campanella (18) weds Bernice Ray
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1835 – Georgia gold rush forces the Cherokees to move across the Mississippi River.
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1860 – Harriet Tubman arrives in Auburn, New York, on her last mission to free slaves, having evaded capture for 8 years on the Underground Railroad.
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1912 – 1st “Keystone Kops” film, entitled “Hoffmeyer’s Legacy”.
