On this day in 1807, Aaron Burr was arrested in Alabama for treason against the United States government.
On this day in 1847, a rescue party reached the stranded Donner Party in the Sierra Nevada.
On this day in 1878, Thomas Alva Edison received a patent for the phonograph.
On this day in 1945, the Battle of Iwo Jima began with the landing of 30,000 United States Marines on the island.
And, in Chuckery, Ohio in 1891, Mrs. Anson Smith was out of town visiting friends and relatives in Gallipolis.
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