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1962:Author John Steinbeck turns on the morning news in his Sag Harbor, N.Y., cottage to hear that he has won the Nobel Prize in Literature for a literary career that includes the classics The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden and Of Mice and Men.
1854: Lord James Cardigan leads a disastrous cavalry charge against superior Russian artillery forces at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. Alfred Lord Tennyson immortalizes the fallen English heroes in the famous poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade."
1940: Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is promoted to brigadier general, becoming the first African American to reach the rank of general in the United States Army. Davis would retire in 1948 after 50 years of military service.
2001:Release of Microsoft's Windows XP
1964:Rolling Stones play on the Ed Sullivan Show, this first major TV appearance in the United States
1955:Microwave oven first introduced, by Tappan Stove Company of Mansfield, Ohio
1861:The Toronto Stock Exchange is created - grows to become the world's third largest stock exchange.
1917:Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and his Bolshevik army seize power in Russia after the Tsar's fall.
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