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Day in History Archive January 9
January 9
1793: Jean Pierre Blanchard, using a hot-air balloon, flew between Philadelphia, PA, and Woodbury, N.J. 1848: English astronomer Caroline Herschel, the first woman to discover a new comet, died. 1894: "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" was released in movie theaters. 1939: The discovery of element Fr (francium) was reported by French chemist Marguerite Perey. 1951: The United Nations headquarters building in NYC officially opened. 1958: Willis Whitney, who founded the General Electric research laboratory, died. 1968: The Surveyor 7 space probe made a soft landing on the moon, marking the end of the American series of unmanned explorations of the lunar surface. 1986: Kodak exited the instant camera business after losing a patent lawsuit with Polaroid. 1998: Scientists announced the discovery that some galaxies are actually accelerating, flying apart at ever faster speeds.
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