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[UNKNOWN]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: On this day, August 28, 1845, the first issue of scientific American was published.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It began as a small newspaper focused on inventions, patents, mechanics, and industrial progress.

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[SPEAKER_00]: At a time when new machines and discoveries were changing daily life, the publication gave

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[SPEAKER_00]: Over time, it became one of the longest running magazines in the United States and a record of how people tried to understand progress.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Also on this day, August 28th, 1922.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The first radio commercial aired on New York Station, W-E-A-F, advertising apartments and Queens, and opening the door to a new era of broadcast advertising.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Also on this day, August 28, 1996, Prince Charles and Princess Diana's divorce became final.