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1847

Liberia was proclaimed an independent republic.

1920

The 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote went into effect.

1939

The first televised major league baseball game was televised: a double-header between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds.

1974

Aviator Charles Lindbergh, the first man to fly solo, nonstop across the Atlantic, died.

1978

John Paul I became Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. He died one month later.

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