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Famous People Born On This Day In History
1790 Jean-Francois Champollion, deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics.
1918 Jose Greco
1946 Susan Lucci, actress, "Erica Kane, All My Children".
Events On This Day In History
1834 Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs.
1947 Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain & Shockley in Bell Labs.
1985 Congress passes a tax simplification guide, which is 1,379 pages in length
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