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493 – Ostrogoten King Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker
1845 – US Congress authorizes ocean mail contracts for foreign mail delivery
1863 – Free city delivery replaces zone postage; 449 letter carriers hired
1883 – Congress authorizes the 1st steel vessels in US navy
1915 – US National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) created, the predecessor of NASA
1959 – The Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts opens in Yerevan, Armenia, with a collection of over 23,000 manuscripts
1966 – Kwame Nkrumah flees Ghana to exile in Conakry, Guinea
1987 – Ray Dandridge, third baseman in Negro Leagues, eleected to Hall of Fame
