1701 – James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes described by both supporters and detractors as the “Old Pretender”, becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.
1880 – The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York. The paper is the United States’ oldest, continuously-independent college daily.
1920 – A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J P Morgan building in Wall Street, New York City, killing 38 and injuring 400.
1959 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
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