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2012 Event - Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, President of Argentina, announces she will switch her personal savings from the U.S. dollar to the Argentine peso

2005 Event - Apple Computer announces they will switch to Intel processors in 2006

1996 Event - New York Yankee Bernie Williams switch hits home runs in a post season game

1995 Event - Padres Ken Caminiti switch hits home runs in 3rd of 4 games

1994 Event - Eddie Murray sets record for switch hit home runs in a games (11 times)

1993 Event - Baseball's proposed switch to a three-division format OKed in AL

1993 Event - Indians' Carlos Baerga is 1st to switch hit home runs in same inn (vs Yankees)

1992 Event - New York Met Eddie Murray sets RBI record by a switch hitter

1990 Event - Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market

1990 Event - Dodger Eddie Murray ties Mickey Mantle with switch hit home runs in 10 games

1987 Event - Kevin Bass is 1st NLer to switch hit home runs in a game twice in 1 season

1987 Event - Oriole Eddie Murray is 1st to switch hit home runs in 2 consecutive games

1985 Event - Pirates score 10 in top of 1st, but lose 15-11 to Phillies, as Steve becomes 1st Phillie to switch hit home runs in same game

1963 Birthday - Lysette Anthony, London, actress, Angelique-Dark Shadows, Switch

1955 Birthday - Wayne Tolleson, born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, professional baseball player, switch hitter, played for the Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees

1953 Event - Operation "Big Switch" Korean War prisoner exchanged at Panmunjom

1946 Event - Yankees switch from 3rd base to 1st base dug out

1942 Event - U.S. auto factories switch from commercial to war production

1937 Event - Cub Augie Galan becomes 1st player to switch hit home runs in a game

1928 Death - Henrich Federer, Switzerland, writer (I Switch Off The Light), dies at 61

1924 Event - School in Babb's Switch, Oklahoma catches fire, 36 die

1902 Event - Canada's Maritime Provinces switch from Eastern to Atlantic time

1897 Event - W B Purvis patents electric railway switch

1582 Event - Many Catholic countries switch to Gregorian calendar, skip 10 days

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