Historybook: USS Constitution first launched (1797); Inventor Alfred Nobel, founder of Nobel Prizes, born (1833); Actress Carrie Fisher born (1956); Guggenheim Museum opens to the public (1959); Poet and novelist Jack Kerouac dies (1969); Kim Kardashian born (1980).

"I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life but that great consciousness of life."

- Jack Kerouac

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