The Korea Times
1755-Samuel Johnson's "A Dictionary of the English Language" is published in London 1861-Federal army of 75,000 volunteers is mobilized by President Abraham Lincoln at the start of the American Civil War 1874-First Impressionist art exhibition opens in Paris, features Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Berthe Morisot 1877-World's first home telephone is installed in Somerville, Massachusetts at the house of Charles Williams Jr. 1880-Guy de Maupassant's short story masterpiece "Boule de Suif" (Dumpling) is first published in the collection "Les Soirées de Médan" 1912-RMS Titanic sinks at 2:20 AM off Newfoundland as the band plays on, with the loss of between 1,490 and 1,635 lives 1955-Ray Kroc opens the first McDonald's Inc. fast food restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois 1983-Tokyo Disneyland opens
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