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1568 ― Dean of St Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer
1793 ― French rev writer Jean Paul Marat murdered by Charlotte Corday
1836 ― U.S. patent #1 (after 9,957 unnumbered patents), for locomotive wheels
1854 ― U.S. forces shell and burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua
1863 ― Anti-draft mobs lynch blacks in NYC; about 1,000 die
1882 ― 200 die as train derails near Tcherny, Russia
1930 ― Sarnoff reports in NY Times "TV would be a theater in every home"
1960 ― Democratic convention nominates Sen. John F Kennedy for president
1969 ― Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon
1976 ― Courtmartial begins in USSR for Valeri Sablin (Hunt for Red Oct)
1978 ― BBC bans Sex Pistols "No One is Innocent"
1978 ― Lee Iacocca fired as Ford Motor Pres by chairman Henry Ford II
1978 ― Walter Poenisch completes swim of 207 kilometers from Cuba to Florida
