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October 23rd

Random fact: History’s shortest war lasted 38 minutes between Great Britain and Zanzibar.

Famous births: Pelé, Brazilian footballer; Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor.

WHOTD: 2001 – Apple releases the iPod.

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October 22nd

Random fact: In 2004, researchers at King’s College in London spent weeks examining dozens of horror movies before determining that Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining was “the perfect scary film.”

Famous birth: Shaggy, Jamaican musician.

WHOTD: 1966 – The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).

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October 21st

Random fact: The guy featured in the NBA logo is former Laker, Jerry West.

Famous births: Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and founder of the Nobel Prize (d. 1896); Kim Kardashian, American socialite.

WHOTD: 1983 – The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures in terms of the speed of light as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.

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October 21st, 2009
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October 20th

Random fact: The Hard Rock Café got its name from a now-defunct bar that appeared on the back of the Doors’ album Morrison Hotel.

Famous births: Tom Petty, American musician; Snoop Dogg, American rapper

WHOTD: 1973 – The Sydney Opera House opens.

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October 21st, 2009
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October 19th

Random fact: In the classic movie-musical, The Wizard of Oz, the many-hued Horse of a Different Color that leads Dorothy and gang through the Emerald City wasn’t actually painted. Instead, animal rights activists advocated that the white horse be sponged with different flavors (and colors) of gelatin and then physically restrained from licking it off.

Famous birth: DJ Sammy, Spanish DJ

WHOTD: 1469 – Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.

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October 19th, 2009
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October 18th

Random fact: In the early 1900s, jugglers and acrobats, not singers and rappers, kept their eye on Billboard magazine each week. In those days, the magazine served as the insider’s bible for the traveling fair and carnival crowd.

Famous births: Chuck Berry, American musician; Freida Pinto, Indian actress and model; Zac Efron, American actor

WHOTD: 1954 – Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.

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October 18th, 2009
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October 17th

Random fact: Even though he hated their taste, Mel Blanc insisted on chewing real carrots to provide the chomping sounds when he voiced the cartoon character Bugs Bunny.

Famous births: Arthur Miller, American playwright (d. 2005); Ziggy Marley, Jamaican musician; Eminem, American rapper; Wyclef Jean, Haitian-born singer

WHOTD: 1979 – Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

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October 16th

Random fact: Restaurant chains like Applebee’s and T.G.I. Friday’s have their staff sing a specialized song to wish customers a happy birthday in order to avoid paying royalties, since “Happy Birthday to You” is a copyrighted tune.

Famous birth: John Mayer, American musician

WHOTD: 1923 – The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.

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October 16th, 2009
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October 15th

Random fact: The very first TV commercial was for Bulova watches in 1941, and it aired in the middle of a pro baseball game between the Dodgers and Phillies. The spot cost nine dollars.

Famous birth: Tito Jackson, American musician

WHOTD: 1793 - Queen Marie-Antoinette of France is tried and condemned in a swift, pre-determined trial in the Palais de Justice, Paris, and condemned to death the following day.

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October 14th

Random fact: An elephant weighs less than the tongue of a blue whale.

Famous birth: E. E. Cummings, American poet (d. 1962); Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer; Usher, American singer and actor

WHOTD: 1926 – The children's book Winnie the Pooh, by A.A. Milne, is first published.

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