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Events (150 years ago today): 1876 – The first successful test of a telephone is made by Alexander Graham Bell.[18]
Births (150 years ago today): 1876 – Anna Hyatt Huntington, American sculptor (died 1973)[89]
Births (100 years ago today): 1926 – Marques Haynes, American basketball player (died 2015)[114]
Births (50 years ago today): 1976 – Barbara Schett, Austrian tennis player[182]
Deaths (250 years ago today): 1776 – Élie Catherine Fréron, French author and critic (born 1718)[236]
Deaths (200 years ago today): 1826 – John Pinkerton, Scottish antiquarian, cartographer, author, numismatist and historian (born 1758)[238]
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