1932 – Amelia Earhart became the first woman to make a transcontinental flight when she landed at the Newark Airport in New Jersey after a 19 hour flight from Los Angeles, CA.
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1911 – “Mona Lisa” stolen from the Louvre by Vincenzo Perugia (Recovered in 1913).
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1903 – Joe Pulitzer donates $1 million to Columbia University & begins the Pulitzer Prizes in America.
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1851 – American inventor Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine.
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1882 – Hatfields of south West Virginia and McCoys of east Kentucky feud, 100 wounded or die.
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1944 – Acting on tip from a Dutch informer, the Nazi Gestapo captures 15-year-old Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family in a sealed-off area of an Amsterdam warehouse.
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1864 – American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C.
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1940 – Bugs Bunny, Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Tex Avery, Bob Givens (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series), first debuts in “Wild Hare”.
