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★28 Oct 1886
In New York Harbor, U.S. President Grover Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty, a gift from France commemorating the Declaration of Independence.

★31 Mar 1899
Philippine–American War: Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, was captured by American forces.

★14 Sep 1901
Theodore Roosevelt became President of the United States at age 42, the youngest person ever to do so, eight days after William McKinley was fatally wounded in Buffalo, New York.

★28 Feb 1904
The most successful football club in Portugal, S.L. Benfica, was founded in Lisbon as Sport Lisboa.

★16 Jun 1904
Irish author James Joyce began his relationship with Nora Barnacle, and subsequently used the date to set the actions for his 1922 novel Ulysses.

★14 Nov 1910
Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performed the first takeoff from a ship, flying from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in the U.S. state of Virginia.

★16 Apr 1912
American Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.

★07 Oct 1913
The Highland Park Ford Plant in the Detroit area of Michigan became the world's first car factory to implement a moving assembly line, eventually reducing Ford Model T production time from 6 hours to 93 minutes.

★06 Oct 1927
The Jazz Singer, one of the first feature-length motion pictures with a synchronized recorded music score, was released.

★16 Jul 1931
Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie signed the nation's first constitution, intended to officially replace the Fetha Nagast, which had been the supreme law since the Middle Ages.

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