America's first library opens, a plane crash kills most of the Marshall University football team, Princess Anne marries a commoner, and Michael Jackson premieres his "Black or White" video, all on this day.
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U.S. Navy
1910: Aviator Eugene Ely performs the first take off from a ship in Hampton Roads, Va., taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher aircraft.