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81 years ago today, as part of their surrender at the end of WWII, Japan retroceded Taiwan to Chinese control after having occupied it for 50 years
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Arthur Besse 7
Sun Oct 25, 2026 1:34 pm
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35 years ago today, concert promoter Bill Graham died in a helicopter crash near Vallejo, California. After his death, the San Francisco Civic Auditorium was renamed the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium.
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Arthur Besse 3
Sun Oct 25, 2026 1:11 pm
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25 years ago today, Microsoft released Windows XP. It was the first consumer edition of Windows to use the Windows NT kernel.
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Arthur Besse 20
Sun Oct 25, 2026 5:07 pm
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55 years ago today, more than two decades after its founding, the PRC finally replaced the ROC as the representative of China in the United Nations
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Arthur Besse 9
Sun Oct 25, 2026 12:48 pm
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80 years ago today, the inaugural session of the UN General Assembly reconvened (having initially started in London earlier in the year) in New York's Flushing Meadows–Corona Park.
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Arthur Besse 6
Sun Oct 25, 2026 1:45 pm
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25 years ago today, Apple Computer announced the iPod
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Arthur Besse 8
Fri Oct 23, 2026 11:21 am
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100 years ago today, prime ministers of the Dominions of the British Empire met in London to begin the month-long *1926 Imperial Conference*. They adopted the term "Commonwealth of Nations" there.
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Arthur Besse 4
Mon Oct 19, 2026 3:26 pm
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50 years ago today, US President Gerald Ford signed the Copyright Act of 1976 into law. It introduced automatic copyright (no registration prerequisite) and extended the duration to life plus 50 years
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Arthur Besse 7
Mon Oct 19, 2026 3:10 pm
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175 years ago today, Herman Melville's *Moby-Dick* was first published
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Arthur Besse 1
Sun Oct 18, 2026 2:14 pm
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1010 years ago today, a Danish army led by Cnut defeated an English army led by Edmund Ironside in the Battle of Assandun.
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Arthur Besse 1
Sun Oct 18, 2026 1:21 pm
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64 years ago today, in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Michael Craig Judge was born. His co-creations include *Beavis and Butt-Head*, *King of the Hill*, *Silicon Valley*, *Office Space*, and *Idiocracy*
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Arthur Besse 2
Sat Oct 17, 2026 4:55 pm
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65 years ago today, childhood friends Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, having not seen each other since Jagger moved seven years prior, met by chance on Platform 2 at Dartford railway station in Kent.
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Arthur Besse 1
Sat Oct 17, 2026 4:45 pm
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65 years ago today, police led by Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon massacred dozens (possibly hundreds) of Algerians protesting in Paris. The French government acknowledged 40 killed, 37 years later.
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Arthur Besse 3
Sat Oct 17, 2026 4:26 pm
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Eight years ago today, recreational cannabis became legal in Canada
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Arthur Besse 1
Sat Oct 17, 2026 4:12 pm
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167 years ago today, abolitionist John Brown led 23 men on a raid of the Harpers Ferry Armory. It resulted in 19 of them being killed, but also galvanized both sides and helped to spark the Civil War.
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Arthur Besse 2
Fri Oct 16, 2026 8:14 pm
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60 years ago today, after decades of canceled plans, and finally five years of construction, Montreal's rubber-tired underground rapid transit system (Métro de Montréal) began operation.
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Arthur Besse 1
Wed Oct 14, 2026 7:41 pm
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960 years ago today, in the first battle of the Norman Conquest, William the Conqueror defeated the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, Harold Godwinson, in the Battle of Hastings
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Arthur Besse 1
Wed Oct 14, 2026 7:24 pm
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35 years ago today, *Star Trek: The Next Generation* 5x04 *Silicon Avatar* first aired. It featured a powerful warp-capable life form called the *Crystalline Entity* which resembled a giant snowflake.
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Arthur Besse 1
Wed Oct 14, 2026 7:08 pm
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145 years ago today in Paris, proto-Zionist Eliezer Ben Yehuda and two friends had what is thought to be the first conversation in modern Hebrew
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Arthur Besse 1
Tue Oct 13, 2026 9:21 am
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80 years ago today, France had a constitutional referendum in which 53% of voters (with 68% turnout) approved the constitution of the French Fourth Republic. It would last for 12 years.
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Arthur Besse 1
Tue Oct 13, 2026 9:18 am
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534 years ago today, Christopher Columbus's first transatlantic expedition made landfall on an island the Taíno people called Guanahani in what is today the Bahamas.
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Arthur Besse 1
Mon Oct 12, 2026 5:51 pm
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9 years ago today, the United States withdrew from UNESCO. It stopped paying its dues six years earlier, due to a US law prohibiting funding any organization which accepts Palestine as a full member.
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Arthur Besse 1
Mon Oct 12, 2026 3:48 pm
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21 years ago today, Shenzhou 6 launched on a Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. It was China's second human spaceflight.
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Arthur Besse 1
Mon Oct 12, 2026 3:32 pm
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55 years ago today, the Shah of Iran's "2,500-year celebration of the Persian Empire" began.
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Arthur Besse 1
Mon Oct 12, 2026 3:00 pm
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62 years ago today, the Soviet Union launched Voskhod 1. It was the first human spaceflight to carry more than one person, and the first without pressure suits. It completed 16 orbits.
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Arthur Besse 1
Mon Oct 12, 2026 2:51 pm
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