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40					1 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.
41	4 Documentary photographer Dorothea Lange was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2003.	5 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.
42	11 The inaugural display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt occurred in 1987.	12 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.
43	18 Inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931.	19 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.
44	25 The Charge of the Light Brigade took place in 1854.	26 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 Painleve died in 1933.	30 The United States government announced the end of shoe rationing in 1945.	31 Today is Halloween.

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