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1896 Dow Jones index begins with an average of 12 industrial stocks (closing is 40.94).
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1897 "Dracula" by Irish author Bram Stoker is published by Archibald Constable and Company in London. |
1908 At Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made, rights acquired by the United Kingdom. |
 | The 1910 Model T Ford |
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1927 Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company produce the last (and 15th million) Model T Ford nicknamed the Tin Lizzie. |
1948 South Africa elects a nationalist government under D. F. Malan with an apartheid policy. |
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Also Clement VII, Al Jolson and Lenny Kravitz (60). |
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Also Jimmie Rodgers and Ray Liotta. |
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Louis Mandrin, an outlaw known as the French Robin Hood or the Prince of Smugglers, was executed on this day after his band of men waged war on tax collectors. |
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