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1582: Playwright William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway.
1919: Lady Astor becomes the first woman to be elected to Britain's House of Commons.
1922: Captain Cyril Turner performs the first skywriting exhibition above New York City, spelling out "Hello, USA," followed by a phone number to which 47,000 people respond.
1961: Ernie Davis of Syracuse University becomes the first African American to win college football's prestigious Heisman Trophy.
1964: The US spacecraft Mariner 4 is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida, with promises—which it makes good on—of transmitting close-up TV pictures of Mars back to Earth by July of the following year.
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