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Nineteen Eighty-Four

632 - Muhammad, founder of Islam, died in Medina.
1887 - Herman Hollerith received a patent for his punch card calculator.
1949 - George Orwell's dystopian political novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was first published.
1953 - Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A tornado hit Flint, Michigan, killing 115 people.
2004 - Ethiopian distance runner Kenenisa Bekele broke the world record for outdoor 10,000 m in Ostrava, Czech Republic.

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