#OnThisDay #HistoricalEventOfTheDay #Nov3
On November 3, 1957, the USSR launched the artificial satellite “Sputnik 2” with the first living creature on board—a dog named Laika. The goal of the mission was to prove that life could exist in weightless conditions.
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#OnThisDay #HistoricalEventOfTheDay #Nov2
The BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service started on Monday the 2nd of November 1936. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
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#OnThisDay #HistoricalEventOfTheDay #Nov2
On Nov.2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signs a bill in the White House Rose Garden designating a federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., to be observed on the third Monday of January.
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#OnThisDay #HistoricalEventOfTheDay #Oct28
On Oct. 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland.
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#OnThisDay #HistoricalEventOfTheDay #Oct27
At 2:35 on the afternoon of October 27, 1904, New York City Mayor George McClellan takes the controls on the inaugural run of the city’s innovative new rapid transit system: the subway.
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#OnThisDay #HistoricalEventOfTheDay #Oct25
On Oct. 25th, 1881, Pablo Picasso, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, is born in Malaga, Spain.
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#OnThisDay #HistoricalEventOfTheDay #Oct24
On October 24, 2003, at 4:05 p.m. BST, the final commercial flight of the British Airways Concorde came to an end with the landing of G-BOAG at London Heathrow Airport.
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#OnThisDay #HistoricalEventOfTheDay #Oct22
Оn 22 October 1797, pioneering balloonist André-Jacques Garnerin became the modern world's first successful parachutist.
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#OnThisDay #HistoricalEventOfTheDay #Oct20
On October 20, 2011, Muammar al-Qaddafi, the longest-serving leader in Africa and the Arab world, is captured and killed by rebel forces near his hometown of Sirte.
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#OnThisDay #HistoricalEventOfTheDay #Oct20
After 15 years of construction, the Sydney Opera House is dedicated by Queen Elizabeth II on October 20, 1973.
