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Posted: Oct 18, 2025 - 7:23am
1945 â The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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Posted: Oct 18, 2025 - 7:22am
1929 â The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of Canada in Edwards v. Canada when it declares that women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.

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Posted: Oct 18, 2025 - 7:21am
1922 â The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.

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Posted: Oct 18, 2025 - 7:20am
1851 â Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.

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Posted: Oct 18, 2025 - 7:20am
1648 â Boston shoemakers form the first American labor organization.

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Posted: Oct 17, 2025 - 8:35am
1956 â The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield, England.

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Posted: Oct 17, 2025 - 8:33am
1933 â Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.

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Posted: Oct 17, 2025 - 8:32am
1907 â Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.

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Posted: Oct 17, 2025 - 8:31am
1814 â Eight people die in the London Beer Flood.

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Posted: Oct 16, 2025 - 7:37am
1995 â The Million Man March takes place in Washington, D.C. About 837,000 attend.

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Posted: Oct 16, 2025 - 7:35am
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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