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On this day: February 7

POSTED: 04:01 PM PST Feb 06, 2013 UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Feb 06, 2013

The Mississippi River is rocked by earthquakes, Baltimore burns, Chaplin debuts "The Tramp," The Beatles arrive in America, and space shuttle astronauts make the first untethered spacewalk, all on this day.

OTD February 7 - Sinclair Lewis — 9 / 39

Library of Congress

1885: Author Sinclair Lewis, the first writer from the United States to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, is born in Sauk Centre, Minn. Among his most popular works are the novels "Main Street," "Babbitt," "Arrowsmith," "Elmer Gantry" and "Dodsworth."

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