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On this day...
1832 French take Antwerp in liberation of Belgium
1863 Patent granted for a process of making color photographs
1887 The opera "The Trumpeter of Suckingen" 1st American production (NYC)
1899 1st jukebox (Palais Royal Hotel, San Francisco)
1903 Enrico Caruso US debut (Metropolitan Opera House, NY) in "Rigoletto"
1904 3rd Olympic games close in St Louis
1942 Steward Poon Lim set adrift for 133 days after his boat was torpedoed
1943 US forces seized control of Tarawa & Makin from Japanese
1948 Lens to provide zoom effects patented-FG Back
1955 British transfer Cocos (Keeling) Is in Indian Ocean to Australia
1960 Tiros 2, a weather satellite is launched
1963 JFK's body, lay in repose in East Room of White House
1964 Beatles release "I Feel Fine" & "She's a Woman"
1971 China People's Republic seated in UN Security Council
1980 4,800 die in series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy
1985 Retired CIA analyst Larry Wu-tai Chin, arrested of spying for China
