Laurel and Hardy team up, a human heart is transplanted for the first time, an assassin targets Bob Marley, and the first text message is sent via phone, all on this day.
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1857: Author Joseph Conrad, who would go on to write novels such as "Heart of Darkness," "Lord Jim," "Nostromo" and "Chance," is born Józef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski in Berdychiv, Ukraine.