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1804 Lt. Stephen Decatur led a successful raid into Tripoli harbor to burn the U.S. Navy frigate Philadelphia, which had fallen into the hands of pirates.
1937 Wallace H. Carothers, a research chemist for Du Pont, received a patent for nylon.
1948 NBC-TV aired its first nightly newscast, "The Camel Newsreel Theatre," which consisted of Fox Movietone newsreels.
1959 Fidel Castro became premier of Cuba a month after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista.
1968 The nation's first 911 emergency telephone system was inaugurated in Haleyville, Ala.
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