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Classic headlineTwo Sisters Reunited After 18 Years at Checkout Counter
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OddlyTrue News Stand — June 7
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Weird history on June 7
1975 First everSony launches Betamax, the first videocassette recorder format.
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1640 Oddly trueCorpus de Sang in Barcelona: Catalan reapers riot against Spanish Royal soldiers and officers, killing the Viceroy of Catalonia, Dalmau de Queralt. Escalation of hostilities between the Principality of Catalonia and the Spanish Monarchy, leading to the Reapers' War.
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1810 First everJournalist Mariano Moreno published Argentina's first newspaper, the Gazeta de Buenos-Ayres.
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Vintage clipping · 1917
The Ward County independent (Minot, Ward County, N.D.), June 7, 1917
Page 1 · mentions "corpse" · printed on this very day
“K Mi JJ This Issue J20 Pages J1 1 ife V sL 1 f Vol 16 NQ 8 NEW PUN ID SECURE scmsnTim State Will Be Divided Into Groups of Four and Five Counties for Pur pose of Efficiency The meeting of bankers real estate men and news…”
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