This Day in History ClassTopsy the Elephant Electrocuted / Louis Braille born - January 4th Flashback
Topsy the Elephant was electrocuted on this day in 1903.
On this day in 1809, French educator Louis Braille, namesake of the Braille reading and writing system, was born.
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