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2009 ‐
TV comedy "Modern Family" premieres on ABC, starring Ed 'Neill and Sofia Vergara
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1969 ‐
Northern Star and Illinois Univ newspaper start rumors that Paul McCartney is dead
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1949 ‐
US President Harry Truman announces evidence of USSR's 1st nuclear device detonation
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1938 ‐
Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in NYC (capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe & 1,100' of microfilm)
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1913 ‐
Serbian troops march into Albania
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1889 ‐
Nintendo founded
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1884 ‐
American Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine, the beginning of data processing
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1846 ‐
Neptune Discovered
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1845 ‐
1st baseball team, NY Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code
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1806 ‐
Lewis and Clark return to St Louis from Pacific Northwest
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