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On This Day, Dec. 31: China reports first cases of COVID-19 to WHO

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In 1862 , the Union ironclad ship USS Monitor sank off Cape Hatteras , N.C. , during a storm.

In 1879 , Thomas Edison gave the first public demonstration of his incandescent lamp.

In 1968 , the Soviet Union tested its supersonic airliner, the TU-144, months before the Concorde .

Pittsburgh Pirates great Roberto Clemente and four other people died in a cargo plane crash in 1972 .

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