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| 1736 | - | Abdication of Stanislas King of Poland |
| 1880 | - | Thomas Edison granted patent for an electric incandescent lamp |
| 1888 | - | National Geographic Society founded in Washington DC |
| 1894 | - | Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park |
| 1915 | - | US Marines occupy Haiti |
| 1926 | - | 1st public TV demonstration |
| 1948 | - | 1st locomotive to carry 1 000 000 pounds operated |
| 1948 | - | 1st Tape Recorder is sold |
| 1964 | - | "Introducing the Beatles\"" album released in US" |
| 1964 | - | Sen Margaret Chase Smith of Maine tried for Republican Pres bid |
| 1965 | - | Groundbreaking for \Dragon Gateway\ at Grant Avenue |
| 1967 | - | Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom White & Chaffee |
| 1967 | - | Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space is signed |
| 1971 | - | Montgomery St Station last link in BART \holed thru\ |
| 1973 | - | US & Vietnam sign cease-fire ending longest US war & milt draft |
| 1977 | - | Pres Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10 000) |
| 1979 | - | Islanders ends 23 undefeated games at home streak (15-0-8) |
| 1985 | - | Fifteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 3 returns to Earth |
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