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30-Dec

Hideki Tojo (Japanese Prime Minister during World War II)

11-Oct

Eleanor Roosevelt (wife of former President Franklin Roosevelt)

19-Jun

Eddie Cicotte (Baseball player)

8-May

Harry S Truman (former U.S. President)

4-Apr

Isoroku Yamamoto (Japanese World War II Marshall Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese fleet who led the attack on Pearl Harbor)

6-Dec

Army engineers completed construction of the Washington Monument, 36 years after the cornerstone was laid. (The monument was dedicated the following February, but wasn’t opened

5-Aug

The cornerstone was laid for the Statue of Liberty on Bedloe’s Island in the New York Harbor.

4-Jul

The Statue of Liberty was presented to the United States in Paris, France.

16-Jun

At Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York, the first roller coaster (The Switchback Railway) in the United States opened.

5-Jun

Civil War hero General William T. Sherman refused the Republican Presidential Nomination with the words, “I will not accept if nominated and will not serve

30-Dec

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Dianne Russell

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