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1582: Gregorian calendar adopted, causing many countries to skip from 10/4 to 10/15--all so Pope Gregory could get out of jury duty on 10/5.
11:08 PM Oct 3rd
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1990: Germany gets back together after 41 years; Germany Unity Day established to commemorate the nationwide awesome makeup sex.
9:40 PM Oct 2nd
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1959: Premiere of The Twilight Zone, which went to series only after CBS demanded Rod Serling lose his sidekick comic relief orangutan.
4:27 AM Oct 2nd
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1967: BBC Radio 1 is launched, followed up by the backmasking, sound effects and sampling used on BBC Radio 9.
4:18 AM Sep 30th
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48 BCE: Pompey the Great assassinated upon arriving in Egypt; tourism in the region would not recover until the 3rd Century CE.
12:53 AM Sep 28th
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1950: World Dance Council founded; most famously ruled against Wilson Pickett in 1966, stating the land only had "813 verifiable dances."
2:32 AM Sep 22nd
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1780: Benedict Arnold hands wrong envelope to British friend, giving him plans to West Point instead of just pornographic engravings.
4:43 AM Sep 21st
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1902: "A Trip to the Moon" released: a PSA about space safety so effective that to date no celestial bodies have reported eye injuries.
2:35 AM Sep 1st
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1963: US/Soviet Hotline est. to avoid confusion after a 1959 incident involving the Duchy of Grand Fenwick was initially blamed on the USSR.
10:32 PM Aug 29th
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708: Japan begins minting copper coins after coinage made of cheese and meat were abolished following the Great Spoiling of 706.
12:20 PM Aug 29th
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The Law of Gravity was not officially recognized by Mississippi until 1981.
2:16 PM Aug 28th
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1898: Pepsi-Cola gets its name, after original name "Brad's Happy Pancreas Sugar Water" fails to test well.
9:32 PM Aug 27th
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1896: 38 minute long Anglo-Zanzibar War was shortest war in history until 1913 when rock-paper-scissors decided a border dispute in Prussia.
1:17 AM Aug 27th
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410: Alaric & the Visigoths sack Rome for three days looking for Alaric's keys, which, as it turns out, he had left in Lower Moesia.
1:54 AM Aug 24th
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1932: BBC begins its own TV broadcasting; Daily Mail calls it "moving picture witchcraft" & demands Sir John Reith's head on a pike.
2:53 PM Aug 22nd
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1858: The Lincoln-Douglas series of debates began in Ottawa IL; a William Wilberforce tribute act opened the show at all seven stops.
8:35 PM Aug 21st
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1938: Lou Gehrig finishes 23rd grand slam in baseball; Don Norris will perish 60 years later trying to surpass the record at Denny's.
2:16 AM Aug 20th
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1959: Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" released; companion album "Kind of Red" never released, crushing dreams of a 3-D Jazz genre.
1:59 AM Aug 17th
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1954: The 1st edition of Sports Illustrated is published, but would sell only 17 copies total until its 1st Swimsuit edition 10 years later.
3:17 AM Aug 16th
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1969: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival opens with the ceremonial lighting of Wavy Gravy.
4:23 AM Aug 15th
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