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1968 â Tommie Smith and John Carlos are ejected from the US Olympic team for participating in the Olympics Black Power salute.

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Posted: Oct 16, 2025 - 7:35am
1964 â China detonates its first nuclear weapon.

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Posted: Oct 16, 2025 - 7:34am
1962 â Cuban Missile Crisis begins: U.S. President John F. Kennedy is informed of photos taken on October 14 by a U-2 showing nuclear missiles (the crisis will last for 13 days starting from this point).

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Posted: Oct 16, 2025 - 7:33am
1919 â Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers' Party.

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Posted: Oct 16, 2025 - 7:33am
1916 â Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.

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Posted: Oct 16, 2025 - 7:32am
1859 â Abolitionist John Brown and his supporters launch a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

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Posted: Oct 15, 2025 - 8:32am
Red_Dragon wrote: 1956 â FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community. I remember doing FORTRAN on punchcards in college. I also remember dropping those punchcards all over the floor.

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Posted: Oct 15, 2025 - 8:30am
2016 â One hundred and ninety-seven nations amend the Montreal Protocol to include a phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons.

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Posted: Oct 15, 2025 - 8:28am
1956 â FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.

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Posted: Oct 15, 2025 - 8:26am
1783 â The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-FranÃ§ois PilÃ¢tre de Rozier.

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Posted: Oct 14, 2025 - 7:32am
2003 â The Steve Bartman Incident takes place at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois.

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Posted: Oct 14, 2025 - 7:29am
1964 â Martin Luther King Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.

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Posted: Oct 14, 2025 - 7:29am
1962 â The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba.

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Posted: Oct 14, 2025 - 7:25am
1908 â The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2â0, clinching the 1908 World Series; this would be their last until winning the 2016 World Series.

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Posted: Oct 14, 2025 - 7:25am
1888 â Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.

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Posted: Oct 13, 2025 - 8:03am
1983 â Ameritech Mobile Communications launches the first US cellular network in Chicago.

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Posted: Oct 13, 2025 - 8:02am
1903 â The Boston Red Sox win the first modern World Series, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the eighth game.

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Posted: Oct 12, 2025 - 9:01am
2017 â The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO. Israel immediately follows.

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Posted: Oct 10, 2025 - 8:26am
1969 â King Crimson releases their debut album, In the Court of the Crimson King.

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