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432 B.C. _ Origin of Metonic Cycle
1836 _ U.S. patent No. 1 (after 9,957 unnumbered patents), for locomotive wheels
1865 _ Horace Greeley advises his readers to ``Go west young man"
1908 _ Fourth modern Olympic games opens in London
1917 _ Vision of Virgin Mary appeared to children of Fatima, Portugal
1969 _ Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon
1978 _ Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to eight years
1978 _ BBC bans Sex Pistols ``No One is Innocent"
1978 _ Lee Iacocca fired as Ford Motor president by chairman Henry Ford II
1985 _ Live Aid, a rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney