1948 – Allen Funt’s “Candid Camera” TV debut on ABC
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1860 – Queen of Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) arrives in NYC
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1926 – Harry Houdini stays in a coffin underwater for 1½ hours before escaping
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1865 – Lewis Carroll publishes “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
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1912 – US government censors movies and photos of prizefights
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1914 – 1st transcontinental phone link made between New York City and San Francisco
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1832 – 1st railroad accident in US, Granite Railway, Quincy, Massachusetts, kills 1
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1893 – Katharine Lee Bates writes “America the Beautiful” in Colorado
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1881 – Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull surrenders to US federal troops
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1907 – Florenz Ziegfeld’s “Follies of 1907” premieres in NYC
