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Events

• Astronomer Tycho Brahe outlined his solar system structure– 1588
• Jesse James robbed his first bank– 1866
• Strauss’s Blue Danube premiered in Vienna– 1867
• First well-documented occurrence of U.S. quintuplets born, Watertown, Wisconsin– 1875
• Novocain (procaine) patented– 1906
• The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) established– 1914
• The first Barbie dolls went on sale– 1959
• First women Royal Canadian Air Force pilots (Captains Nora Bottomley, Dee Brasseur, and Leah Mosher) graduated– 1981
• Winter Olympics began, Calgary, Alberta– 1988
• Second tune-up for the Hubble Space Telescope began– 1997
• The last original Peanuts comic strip ran in newspapers– 2000
• Former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani received an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II– 2002