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1911
Proctor & Gamble Company introduced Crisco vegetable shortening.
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1935
Aviator Wiley Post and actor Will Rogers were killed in a plane crash.
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1939
The Wizard of Oz premiered in Hollywood.
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1947
The Indian Independence Bill created the two independent states of India and Pakistan.
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1948
South Korea became the Republic of Korea.
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1969
Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened at Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York.
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1998
A car bomb in Omagh, Northern Ireland, killed 29 people. It was the deadliest act of violence in more than 30 years of "Troubles."
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2001
Astronomers announced the discovery of the first solar system outside our own.
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