On this day:
1957: Hamilton Electric 500, the first electric watch, is available
1959: Alaska becomes the 49th U.S. state after being bought from Russia
1994: Millions of people from the former Apartheid Homelands gain South African citizenship
Born on this day:
1892: J. R. R. Tolkien, English philologist, author
Gone on this day:
2010: Mary Daly, American philosopher, theologian
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