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Today in 1805 Lewis and Clark first sighted the Pacific Ocean.
1811 Battle of Tippecanoe, gave Harrison a presidential slogan.
1874 First cartoon to use the elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party.
1875 Verney Cameron was first European to cross equatorial Africa from sea to sea.
1885 Canada completed its own transcontinental railway.
Today's Birthdays
1867 Madame Marie Curie, scientist, discoverer of radium.
1918 Billy Graham, televangelist.
