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Famous People Born On This Day In History
1819 Abner Doubleday, credited with inventing American Baseball.
1892 Pearl Buck, authoress (The Good Earth.)
1913 Maurice Wilkes, invented the stored program concept for computers.
1966 Chris Issack, singer.
1970 Chris O'Donnel, actor.
Events On This Day In History
1797 Charles Newbold patents an iron plow. He can't sell it to farmers, though, because they fear the effects of iron on the soil!
1896 The first movie theatre is opened in the U.S. with 10 cent movies.
1934 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions.
1945 UN Charter written in San Francisco.
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