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50 Years Ago Today: D.B. Cooper hijacks a 727, disappears into legend
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100 years ago today, the word "robot" was coined when Czech writer Karel Čapek's play R.U.R. premiered at the National Theater in Prag
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The undertaker who got tired of the competition cheating
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Capacitor Plague
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TIH: October 30, 1938- Newspapers create a nationwide moral panic over the new media of radio
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TIH: October 23, 1929- Black Tuesday. Wall Street crashes.
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TIH: October 9. 1410- The Prague Astronomical Clock is first mentioned.
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TIH: October 1, 1890- Yosemite National Park is established.
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TIH: September 17th, 1991 - Linus Torvalds releases the first Linux kernal onto the internet
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TIH: July 30, 1881- Smedley Butler is born
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TIH: July 16, 1821- Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the "Church of Christ, Scientist," is born
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TIH: June 24, 1947- Kenneth Arnold coins the term "flying saucer."
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TIH: June 18, 1178- Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed.
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TIH: June 12, 1967- In Loving vs Virginia, the US Supreme Court overturns all laws prohibiting interracial marriage
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TIH: June 5th, 1989. Student protests in Tiananmen Square lead to the amazing footage of an individual known as "Tank Man"
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TIH: May 6, 1915- Orson Wells is born.
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TIH: April 27, 1981- Xerox introduces the Computer Mouse
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TIH: April 4, 1913- The Great Muddy Waters is born
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TIH: March 22, 1993- Intel releases the firt Pentium Processors.
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TIH: January 26, 1950- The Republic of India becomes a reality as its Constitution comes into force
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TIH: December 19, 1776- Thomas Paine publishes the first of the "The American Crisis" pamphlets
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TIH: December 4, 1906- Alpha Phi Alpha the first black intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
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TIH: December 2, 1939- New York City's LaGuardia Airport opens
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TIH: October 31, 1517- Martin Luther begins the Protestant Reformation with his "95 Theses"
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TIH: October 23, 1844- The Great Dissapointment as the predictded end of the world does not happen
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TIH: September 21, 1937- J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
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TIH: July 25, 1976- The now infamous 'Face on Mars' picture is taken!
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TIH: June 13, 1386-The Treaty of Windsor is signed, creating the longest lasting alliance in the world
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TIH: May 23, 1829- The Accordion is patented!
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