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1755 – Samuel Johnson’s “A Dictionary of the English Language” was published in London.
1817 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the first US public school for the deaf, Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons in Hartford, CT. The school has since been renamed the American School for the Deaf.
1892 – The General Electric Company was formed.
1912 – The Titanic sank
1924 – Rand McNally published its first road atlas.
1947 – Jackie Robinson broke the Major League Baseball color line when he played his first game for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1955 – Ray Krok opened the first McDonald’s in Des Plaines, IL.
1999 – Astronomers Found a new solar system with three planets orbiting around the star Upsilon Andromedae.
2002 – The FDA Approved Botox
