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The Mayor Was Supposed to Drive the Train for One Ceremonial Minute. He Refused to Give Back the Controls.

The New York City subway opened on October 27, 1904. More than a hundred thousand people rode it on the first evening, each for a nickel, and the city was never the same shape again.

Oct 27, 2026

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Thirty Seconds, Thirty Shots, and It Did Not Even Happen at the O.K. Corral

On October 26, 1881, the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday faced a group of cowboys in a vacant lot in Tombstone, Arizona. Three men died, and the most famous gunfight of the American West was born.

Oct 26, 2026

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The Midwife Thought He Was Stillborn. He Lived to Ninety-One and Reinvented Painting More Than Once.

Pablo Picasso was born on October 25, 1881, in Malaga, Spain. Over nearly eight decades of work he co-founded Cubism, painted Guernica, and became the most famous artist of the twentieth century.

Oct 25, 2026

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The Bankers Stopped the Panic on Thursday. On Monday It Came Back and Did Not Stop.

October 24, 1929, is remembered as Black Thursday, the first day of the Wall Street Crash. Within a week the great bull market of the 1920s was finished, and the Great Depression was on its way.

Oct 24, 2026

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Students Marched Through Budapest, and for Twelve Days a Small Country Defied the Soviet Empire

The Hungarian Revolution began on October 23, 1956. It was crushed by Soviet tanks within two weeks, but it exposed the nature of Soviet rule in Eastern Europe to the entire world.

Oct 23, 2026

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A Frenchman Cut the Rope at Three Thousand Feet and Trusted His Life to a Silk Umbrella

On October 22, 1797, Andre-Jacques Garnerin made the first parachute descent from a balloon, over the Parc Monceau in Paris. He landed badly shaken, slightly airsick, and alive.

Oct 22, 2026

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He Made His Fortune from Explosives and Left It All to Peace, Science, and Literature

Alfred Nobel was born on October 21, 1833. The inventor of dynamite held 355 patents, built a global industrial empire, and wrote a one-page will that created the most famous prizes in the world.

Oct 21, 2026

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It Was Ten Years Late and Fourteen Times Over Budget. Its Architect Never Saw It Finished.

Queen Elizabeth II opened the Sydney Opera House on October 20, 1973. The Danish architect who designed it had left Australia in anger seven years earlier and never returned.

Oct 20, 2026

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The British Band Played, the Redcoats Laid Down Their Arms, and the War Was Effectively Over

General Cornwallis surrendered his army at Yorktown, Virginia, on October 19, 1781. A French fleet had made it possible, and the defeat convinced Britain that the American colonies could not be recovered.

Oct 19, 2026

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The Greatest American Novel Was Published in London, Flopped, and Was Forgotten for Seventy Years

Herman Melville's whaling epic first appeared on October 18, 1851, under the title The Whale. It sold poorly, wrecked his career, and was rediscovered only long after his death.

Oct 18, 2026

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The Mayor Was Supposed to Drive the Train for One Ceremonial Minute. He Refused to Give Back the Controls.

Thirty Seconds, Thirty Shots, and It Did Not Even Happen at the O.K. Corral

The Midwife Thought He Was Stillborn. He Lived to Ninety-One and Reinvented Painting More Than Once.

The Bankers Stopped the Panic on Thursday. On Monday It Came Back and Did Not Stop.

Students Marched Through Budapest, and for Twelve Days a Small Country Defied the Soviet Empire

A Frenchman Cut the Rope at Three Thousand Feet and Trusted His Life to a Silk Umbrella

He Made His Fortune from Explosives and Left It All to Peace, Science, and Literature

It Was Ten Years Late and Fourteen Times Over Budget. Its Architect Never Saw It Finished.

The British Band Played, the Redcoats Laid Down Their Arms, and the War Was Effectively Over

The Greatest American Novel Was Published in London, Flopped, and Was Forgotten for Seventy Years

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