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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 23rd, 2009

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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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