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36			1 The gramophone was patented in 1887.	2 The first successful open-heart surgery took place in 1952.	3 The Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783, formally granting the U.S. independence from Britain.	4 Historical fiction novelist Mary Renault was born in 1905.	5 Sylvanus Bowser, inventor of the first U.S. gas pump, made his first sale to a service station in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1885.
37	6 Mexican President Vicente Fox became the first Mexican leader in a decade to address a joint session of the U.S. Congress in 2001.	7 Guillaume Apollinaire was arrested for allegedly stealing the Mona Lisa in 1911.	8 Today is International Literacy Day.	9 Frances Folsom Cleveland, the wife of President Grover Cleveland, gave birth to daughter Esther in the White House in 1893.	10 Tennis great Steffi Graf of West Germany won the U.S. Open women's final in 1988, earning her the first women's Grand Slam title since 1970.	11 The World Trade Center and United States Pentagon were attacked by Islamist terrorists in 2001.	12 The famous Lascaux cave paintings were discovered near Montignac, France, in 1940.
38	13 Undersea explorer Robert Ballard announced the discovery of the remains of an ancient building in the Black Sea in 2000.	14 The United States Senate approved legislation to extend the scope of workers qualifying for protection under the minimum wage law in 1966.	15 National Hispanic Heritage Month begins.	16 Television viewers were taken on a live expedition inside the Great Pyramid at Giza in 2002.	17	18 Their Eyes Were Watching God, a novel by Zora Neale Hurston, was published in 1937.	19 Japanese poet Masaoka Shiki died in 1902.
39	20 The first Cannes Film Festival was held on this day in 1946.	21 Stretch the Ostrich, a Ty Beanie Baby, was "born" in 1997.	22 Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862.	23 Today is the autumnal equinox.	24 Beloved children's book author Dr. Seuss died in 1991.	25 Shel Silverstein was born in 1930.	26 Jonathan Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, was born in 1775.
40	27 The Warren Commission's report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was released in 1964.	28 William the Conqueror invaded England in 1066.	29 Miguel de Cervantes was born in 1547.	30 Louis Armstrong arrived in New York City to join the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra in 1924.

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