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October 24, 1926: Harry Houdini’s last performance

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October 23, 1941: Walt Disney’s ‘Dumbo’ flies into theaters

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October 22, 1906: Henry Ford rises to president of the Ford Motor Company

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October 20, 1864: Abraham Lincoln proclaims Thanksgiving is a national holiday

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October 19, 1960: Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested at Rich’s lunch counter in Atlanta

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October 18, 1775: Phillis Wheatley is freed from slavery

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October 17, 1993: Albert Einstein makes his move to America permanently

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October 16, 1847: ‘Jane Eyre’ published

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October 15, 1917: Mata Hari is executed

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October 14, 1982: President Reagan begins the “War on Drugs”

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October 13, 1925: Margaret Thatcher is born

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October 12, 1945: Desmond Doss, pacifist superhero, receives the Medal of Honor

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October 11, 1975: ‘Saturday Night Live’ Debuts On NBC

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October 10, 1845: US Navy Academy is founded

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October 9, 1975: Andrei Sakharov of the Soviet Union wins the Nobel Peace Prize

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October 8, 1971: John Lennon’s : “Imagine” brought the world together

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October 7, 1955: Allen Ginsberg reads “Howl” publicly for the first time

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October 6, 1889: The first motion picture is revealed by Thomas Edison

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Colonel Sanders was way cooler than the inspirational memes suggests

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October 5, 1961: The legendary film “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” is released

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October 4, 1927: Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mt. Rushmore

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October 3, 1995: O.J. Simpson is acquitted

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October 2, 1968: Marcel Duchamp passes away – Ceci n’est pas un art

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October 1, 1868: The literary classic ‘Little Women’ is published by Louisa May Alcott

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September 30, 1939: The end of the Cold War’s Berlin Airlift

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November 11, 1969: The Doors frontman Jim Morrison is arrested by the FBI

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November 10th, 1940: Walt Disney started a 25-year relationship working with the FBI

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November 9th, 1799: Napoleon becomes Emperor of France

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November 8th, 1895: Wilhelm Röntgen discovers x-rays

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November 7th, 1874: Republican party depicted as an elephant by Thomas Nast

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Man discovers invaluable hidden treasure while fixing his toilet

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November 6, 1913: Gandi arrested in South Africa

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This rusty coin prevented an impromptu shave— its current worth will surprise you

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This underground city is carved entirely out of salt rock— and it’s super cool

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Meet Sergeant Stubby: The first dog in American history to be awarded military rank

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November 5th, 1940: FDR is elected for a third term

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Gems that kill: Scandalous stories behind cursed and looted jewelry

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One surprising effect of the black plague? A longer life span

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Kemetism: Ancient Egyptian religion revived in the modern age

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Secret room discovered under house turns out to be part of American history

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November 4, 1922: Howard Carter discovers King Tut’s tomb

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This perfectly-preserved shrine in Pompeii takes you back in time

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After 32 years, Chernobyl is still as deadly as ever

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On the front lines: Fighting in a Viking raid

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November 3, 1954: Godzilla is unleashed into the world

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