This Day, That Year – February 18
Fri 18 Feb 2022
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Auguste Bartholdi was awarded a patent for his design of the Statue of Liberty on this day in 1879.
Did you know that:
• Alessandro Volta, an Italian inventor of the electric battery, was born on this day in 1745
• Mark Twain published the “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” on this day in 1885
• Nellie Jay was the first cow to be flown and milked in an aeroplane on this day in 1930