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 | | Faraday was born on Sept. 22, 1791, in Newington, Surrey, England. |
 | | In experimenting with magnetism, Faraday made two discoveries of great importance; one was the existence of dimagnetism, and the other was the fact that a magnetic field has the power to rotate the plane of polarized light passing through certain types of glass. |
 | | On February 2, 1980, details of ABSCAM, an FBI operation to uncover political corruption in the government, were released to the public. |
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