Jefferson Davis becomes the president of the Confederacy, Pluto is discovered, a cow flies, the first Church of Scientology is formed, the Chicago Seven are found not guilty, and Dale Earnhardt dies at the Daytona 500, all on this day.
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Tiffany & Co
1902: Charles Lewis Tiffany, the jeweler who founded Tiffany & Co. in New York City in 1837, dies at the age of 90 in Yonkers, N.Y.