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the first ironclad ship, the USS Monitor.
• In 1887, the International Herald Tribune had its beginnings as the Paris Herald, a European edition of the New York Herald.
• In 1931, the comic strip "Dick Tracy," created by Chester Gould, made its debut.
• In 1940, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini conferred at Brenner Pass in the Alps.
• In 1958, the first trans-Atlantic passenger jetliner service was begun by the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) with flights between London and New

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