1860Telegraph line between LA & San Francisco opens.
1862Civil War: Battle of Perryville, Kentucky - Confederate invasion halted.
1918WWI: American soldier Alvin York single-handedly attacks a German gun nest, killing at least 25 and capturing 132 Germans.
1871The Great Chicago Fire kills an estimated 300 people and destroys over 4 square miles (10 square km) of buildings and the original Emancipation Proclamation.
1945The Microwave oven is patented by US inventor Percy Spencer.
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