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June 23
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In 1683, William Penn signed a friendship treaty with the Lenni Lenape Indians near present-day Philadelphia.
In 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called a "Type-Writer."
In 1931, aviators Wiley Post and Harold Catty took off from New York for a flight around the world.
In 1938, the Civil Aeronautics Authority was established.
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Advertising executive David Ogilvy (1911)
Singer June Carter Cash (1929)
Musical conductor James Levine (1943)
Actor Ted Shackelford (1946)
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"Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is EVERYTHING."
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C(harles) F(erdinand) Ramuz, Swiss novelist (1878-1947)