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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration began operation in 1958.
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The Peanuts comic strip debuted in 1950.
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East and West Germany reunified in 1990.
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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.
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George Horace Lorimer, long-time editor of the Saturday Evening Post, was born in 1868.
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Edgar Allan Poe, poet and author, died in 1849.
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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.
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The official birth of the metric system took place on this date in 1796.
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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.
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The cornerstone of the White House was laid in 1792.
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Zhang Xueliang, Chinese military leader, died in Hawaii in 2001 at the age of 100.
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Chef Emeril Lagasse was born in 1959.
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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.
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18
Inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931.
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The United States halted exports to Communist Cuba in 1960.
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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.
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Congress enacted the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act (MPRSA) in 1972.
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The United Nations officially came into existence in 1945.
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25
The Charge of the Light Brigade took place in 1854.
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Pioneer aviatrix Beryl Markham was born in 1902.
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In 1904, the first rapid transit subway opened in New York City.
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President Clinton signed the 2000 farm bill into law.
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French Mathematician and statesman Paul Painleve died in 1933.
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The United States government announced the end of shoe rationing in 1945.
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Today is Halloween.