1855 - American inventor Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor
1877 - American Humane Association organizes in Cleveland
1932 - Soviet leader Joseph Stalin expels Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev from the Communist Party after a power struggle
1959 - Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in Southampton, England
1999 - The last flight of the US aircraft Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird"

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