1828 – The first printing press designed to use the newly-implemented Cherokee alphabet arrived in New Echota, GA, to help the General Council of the Cherokee Nation produce its Cherokee-language newspaper.
1842 – John J. Greenough of Washington, DC patented the sewing machine on this day.
1848 – Karl Marx, with the assistance of Friedrich Engels, published The Communist Manifesto in London.
1878 – The first telephone directories issued in the U.S. were distributed to residents in New Haven, CT, with only 50 subscribers’ names were listed.
1885 – The Washington Monument, built in honor of the nation’s first president, was dedicated in Washington, D.C.
1925 – The first issue of The New Yorker was published.
1926 – Swedish actress Greta Garbo’s first U.S. film, The Torrent, opened.
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1932 – William N. Goodwin of Newark, New Jersey patented the camera exposure meter.
1947 – Edwin Land demonstrated the Polaroid Land Camera to the Optical Society of America in New York City. It was the first camera to take, develop and print a picture on photo paper (in black and white back then) all in about a minute.
1948 – The National Association for Stock Racing (NASCAR) was officially incorporated.
1950 – The first International Pancake Race was held in Liberal, Kansas. The annual event, scheduled each year on Shrove Tuesday, pits the women of Liberal against the women of Olney, Bucks, England.
1965 – Black activist Malcolm X was shot by Black Muslim assassins as he was about to address a rally in New York.
1995 – Former Chicago stockbroker and U.S. balloonist Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon, landing in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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