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February 8th In NYC History
Updated: Updated 02/08/2013 01:00 AM
By: NY1 News

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1834...Romantic New Yorkers stock up on Valentines when engraver Robert Elton starts selling the first manufactured Valentine cards in the nation.


Today's New Yorker birthdays include actor and comedian Robert Klein, born in the Bronx in 1942.

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