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January 4

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In 1809, Louis Braille, inventor of a reading system for the blind, was born in Coupvray, France.

In 1885, Dr. William W. Grant of Davenport, Iowa, performed what's believed to have been the first appendectomy.  The patient was 22-year-old Mary Gartside.

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Actor Sterling Holloway  (1904)

Actress Jane Wyman  (1913)

Actor Sorrell Booke  (1949)

Former heavyweight boxing champion Floyd Patterson  (1934)

Actress Dyan Cannon  (1936)

Maureen Reagan  (1940)

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"People everywhere confuse/What they read in newspapers with news."
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A.J. Liebling, American journalist  (1904-1963)