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Events
1870 - The first college sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, is formed at DePauw University.
1926 - John Logie Baird demonstrates the first television broadcast.
1983 - World's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.90 km) opens in Japan connecting the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido.
Births
1756- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1791)
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