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  1. 1786
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  3. June 8 - Ives W. McGaffey of Chicago, Illinois receives a patent for the vacuum cleaner.
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  5. July 29 - The Pittsburgh Gazette is the first newspaper west of the Allegheny Mountains to be published.
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  7. August 8 - The silver dollar and the decimal system of money are adopted by the U.S. Congress.
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