On this day:
1952: US National Security Agency formed
2008: Barack Obama is elected. He was the first African-American president of the US.
Born on this day:
1933: Charles K. Kao, Chinese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Gone on this day:
1847: Felix Mendelssohn, German pianist, composer, conductor
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