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A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
KSTP-TV makes the first commercial television broadcast in Minnesota, showing the Minneapolis Millers' baseball game from Nicollet Park for the approximately 2,500 owners of television sets in the Twin Cities. Station owner Stanley E. Hubbard had experimented with television since the 1930s.
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