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1901 – President William McKinley is shot while attending a reception at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, by 28-year-old anarchist Leon Czolgosz. McKinley dies eight days later, the third American president assassinated.
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1895 – Electric generator at Niagara Falls produces first power
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1872 – 1st Japanese commercial ship visits San Francisco, carrying tea
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1863 – Raid at Lawrence KS by William Quantrill
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1942 – World War II: Over 4,000 Canadian and British soldiers killed, wounded or captured raiding Dieppe, France
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1861 – Martial Law is declared at St Louis, Missouri, due to pro-secession sentiment which surged throughout Missouri after the Battle of Wilson’s Creek
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1877 – Thomas Edison completes 1st model for the phonograph, a device that recorded sound onto tinfoil cylinders.
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1914 1st electric traffic light installed in the USA on the corner of East 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio
