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1290 ― Jews are expelled from England by order of King Edward I
1817 ― First flower show held (Dannybrook, County Cork, Ireland)
1859 ― Paper bag manufacturing machine patented by William Goodale, Mass
1874 ― Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure, "The Gloria Scott" (BG)
1906 ― Alfred Dreyfus found innocent in France
1914 ― Babe Ruth makes his baseball debut, pitches for the Red Sox
1928 ― First televised tennis match
1957 ― First President to fly in helicopter: Dwight Eisenhower
1960 ― USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs
1962 ― Rolling Stones 1st performance (Marquee Club, London)
1970 ― Janis Joplin debuts in Kentucky
1971 ― Juan Corona indicted for 25 murders
1982 ― FEMA promises survivors of a nuclear war will get their mail
