The 984-foot (300-metre) Eiffel Tower, a wrought iron technological masterpiece created by Gustave Eiffel to commemorate the French Revolution, was opened to the public at the Centennial Exposition in Paris this day in 1889.
| 1980: | | | American track-and-field legend Jesse Owens died in Phoenix, Arizona. |
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| 1918: | | Clocks in the United States were set one hour ahead as daylight saving time went into operation for the first time. |
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| 1870: | | Thomas Peterson-Mundy of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, became the first African American to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. |
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| 1854: | | | U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry signed the Treaty of Kanagawa in Japan, ending that country's period of seclusion. |
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| 1732: | | Composer Joseph Haydn was born in Rohrau, Austria. |
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| 1521: | | The first Roman Catholic mass in the Philippines was celebrated on the island of Limasawa. |
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