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This year in history
In the year 1791

	March 4th	Vermont was admitted as the 14th US state.
	April 27th	American inventor, Samuel F. B. Morse, was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He was the inventor of the signalling alphabet known as Morse Code.
	December 4th	The first issue of UK newspaper, The Observer, was published. It was the world's first Sunday newspaper and is still published today (2006).
	December 5th	Austrian composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, died at the age of 35. He was one of the most influential and popular composers of classical music.

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