The Erie Canal opens, the Pony Express closes, Wyatt Earp shoots it out in Tombstone, "Baby Fae" gets a baboon heart, and the Patriot Act is signed into law, all on this day.
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1947: Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former first lady who served as a U.S. senator from New York from 2001 to 2009 and as the 67th U.S. secretary of state, is born in Chicago.