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Today in History for Feb. 11: In 1765, London wig-makers, dismayed that fewer men were wearing wigs, asked King George III to buy their products to spur sales. He declined. In 1834, William Lyon Mackenzie was forcibly ejected from Upper Canada’s legislature. In 1847, inventor Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio. Perhaps the […]

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