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.