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1930: 3M receives a patent for transparent cellophane tape, which becomes known as Scotch tape.
1931: General Mills brings Bisquick to grocery-store shelves.
1937: Hormel Foods launches Spam.
1941: The Andrews Sisters of Minneapolis record "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy."
1942: Munsingwear introduces a stars-and-stripes bra and girdle set.
1948: KSTP-TV beams a Minneapolis Millers baseball game to 2,500 households in the state's first commercial TV broadcast.
1956: The Dayton Company opens Southdale, the nation's first enclosed shopping mall.
KIM ODE
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