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This Day in Minnesota History

December 21, 1998

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ISBN: 0873514165
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Television's original Betty Crocker, Adelaide Hawley Cumming, dies in Seattle. Cumming starred in the Betty Crocker Show beginning in 1949 and remained General Mills' advertising icon until 1964, after which she taught English as a second language in Seattle.

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