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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration began operation in 1958. | 2
The "Peanuts" comic strip debuted in 1950. | 3
East and West Germany reunified in 1990. | 4
Documentary photographer Dorothea Lange was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2003. |
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Ray Kroc, builder of the McDonald’s restaurant chain, was born in 1902. | 6
George Horace Lorimer, long-time editor of the Saturday Evening Post, was born in 1868. | 7
Edgar Allan Poe, poet and author, died in 1849. | 8
World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker was born in 1890. | 9
Letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to Senators Daschle and Leahy in 2001. | 10
The official "birth" of the metric system took place on this date in 1796. | 11
The inaugural display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt occurred in 1987. |
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On this date in 1999, the population of the Earth reached six billion. | 13
The cornerstone of the White House was laid in 1792. | 14
Zhang Xueliang, Chinese military leader, died in Hawaii in 2001 at the age of 100. | 15
Chef Emeril Lagasse was born in 1959. | 16
Hackers redirected millions of AOL email messages in 1998. | 17
Mexican women were granted the right to run for office and to vote in national elections in 1953. | 18
Inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931. |
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The United States halted exports to Communist Cuba in 1960. | 20
The Commemorative Coin Act of 1996 was signed into law. | 21
The Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) was enacted in 1972. | 22
In 1966, the Supremes became the first all-female group to have an album hit number one. | 23
Congress enacted the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act (MPRSA) in 1972. | 24
The United Nations officially came into existence in 1945. | 25
The Charge of the Light Brigade took place in 1854. |
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Pioneer aviatrix Beryl Markham was born in 1902. | 27
In 1904, the first rapid transit subway opened in New York City. | 28
President Clinton signed the 2000 farm bill into law. | 29
French Mathematician and statesman Paul Painlevé died in 1933. | 30
The United States government announced the end of shoe rationing in 1945. | 31
Today is Halloween. | |
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