SEPTEMBER 20
1973:Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in the “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match at the Houston Astrodome.
1853: Elisha Graves Otis begins selling his first “hoist machine,” an elevator with an automatic safety brake, at his Yonkers, N.Y., factory. The invention of the elevator allows for the growth of skyscrapers and modern high-rise buildings.
1853: Elisha Graves Otis begins selling his first “hoist machine,” an elevator with an automatic safety brake, at his Yonkers, N.Y., factory. The invention of the elevator allows for the growth of skyscrapers and modern high-rise buildings.
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