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1745 Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, co-inventor of the first aircraft to carry humans into the sky, was born.

1852 Louis Braille, developer of the Braille System of writing and reading for the blind, died.

1912 New Mexico was admitted as the 47th state.

1919 Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, died.

Benjamin Franklin's Work with Electricity led to the discovery that lightning is caused by discharges of static electricity in the atmosphere, which led to the invention of the lightning rod.

Andrei Dmitriyevich Sakharov helped develop the Soviet Union's first hydrogen bomb before becoming a spokesman for worldwide nuclear disarmament and winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

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