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August 1

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In 1774, British scientist Joseph Priestley succeeded in isolating oxygen from air.

In 1790, the first U.S. census was completed, showing a population of nearly 4 million people in 13 states.

In 1834, an Emancipation Bill outlawed slavery throughout the British empire.

In 1873, inventor Andrew S. Hallidie successfully tested a cable car he had designed for the city of San Francisco.  The car, pulled along by an underground cable, traveled down Clay Street between Jones and Kearny, first in a private test, then in a public demonstration.

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Actor Arthur Hill  (1922)

Composer-lyricist Lionel Bart  (1930)

Actor-comedian Dom DeLuise  (1933)

Rock musician Jerry Garcia  (1942)

Actor Giancarlo Giannini  (1942)

Actress Tempestt Bledsoe  (1973)

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"Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it."
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Kenneth Bancroft Clark, American educator and psychologist.