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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1894: Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson, most famous "Treasure Island," "Kidnapped" and "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 44 in Vailima, Samoa.