On this day:
1883: Canadian and American railroads adopt time zones
1963: Push-button phones are used for the first time
Born on this day:
1939: Margaret Atwood, Canadian poet, author, critic
Gone on this day:
1922: Marcel Proust, French writer
1962: Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
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