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Events

• Major General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, Virginia, effectively ending the American Revolutionary War– 1781
• President Abraham Lincoln wrote to an 11-year-old girl who requested that he grow a beard– 1860
• First wedding to take place in balloon occurred, over Cincinnati, Ohio– 1874
• Government autos were first used to deliver U.S. mail– 1914
• Watertown Senior High School, in South Dakota, was the first school to fingerprint students– 1936
• Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, was first isolated by researchers at Rutgers University– 1943
• Queen Elizabeth II went to a U.S. football game– 1957
• The Miracle Worker, a dramatization of Helen Keller’s early life, opens on Broadway– 1959
• U.S. auto executive, John DeLorean, was charged with the crime of selling cocaine to undercover police– 1982
• The first Blockbuster Video store opened in Dallas, Texas– 1985
• Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 22% on what has become known as Black Monday”“– 1987
• Mother Teresa was beatified by Pope John Paul II– 2003
• In Indiana, a family’s pet Amazon parrot saved their lives by mimicking the sound of a fire alarm to alert them their house was on fire– 2007
• An earthquake measuring 2.5 hit Littleton, Massachusetts– 2007
• The Tampa Bay Rays won the American League Championship Series for the first time in franchise history– 2008
• First object (‘Oumuamua) from another solar system detected in ours– 2017