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1862 Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank off Cape Hatteras, NC
1879 Edison gives 1st public demonstration of his incandescent lamp
1911 Marie Curie receives her 2nd Nobel Prize
1935 Charles Darrow patents Monopoly
1938 Dr R N Harger's "drunkometer," 1st breath test, introduced in Indiana
1946 Pres Truman officially proclaims end of WW II
1961 1st performance of Beach Boys
1974 Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks join Fleetwood Mac
1981 CNN Headline News debuts - long live Lynne Russell
1985 Rock singer Rick Nelson, 45, and six other people were killed when fire broke out aboard a DC-3 that was taking the group to a New Year's Eve performance in Dallas
1995 Cartoonist Bill Watterson ends his "Calvin & Hobbes" comic strip
1999 Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama
2006 The death toll for Americans killed in the Iraq war reached 3,000.
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