"Huckleberry Finn" is first published, the first Nobel Prizes are awarded, the first transcontinental flight ends, Playboy debuts, and "Avatar" premieres in theaters, all on this day.
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1974: Drummer Meg White, best known as one-half of the rock duo The White Stripes with ex-husband Jack White, is born in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.