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175 years ago today Frédéric Chopin, a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, died. (en.wikipedia.org)
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90 years ago today the Long March began with the departure of the First Red Army under the leadership of Mao Zedong from their headquarters in the southern province of Jiangxi. (en.wikipedia.org)
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190 years ago today most of the Palace of Westminster in London was destroyed in a fire caused by the burning of wooden tally sticks. (en.wikipedia.org)
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60 years ago today Cole Porter, an American songwriter of pop standards, died. (en.wikipedia.org)
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65 years ago today Sarah, Duchess of York, a British author, philanthropist, television personality, and member of the extended British royal family, was born. (upload.wikimedia.org)
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495 years ago today the siege of Vienna ended with Austrian forces repelling the invading Turks, turning the tide against almost a century of conquest in Europe by the Ottoman Empire. (en.wikipedia.org)
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On this day, 15 Oct 1940 Charlie Chaplin's first talkie The Great Dictator debuted in New York (while the US was still formally at peace with Nazi Germany). (files.mastodon.social)
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The antifascist film ends with this impassioned speech to the audience opposing all forms of oppression.

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50 years ago today the album War Child by the Progressive rock/folk band Jethro Tull from the United Kingdom was released. (i.ibb.co)
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60 years ago today the Presidium and the Central Committee voted to accept Nikita Khrushchev's "voluntary" request to retire as Premier of the Soviet Union… (en.wikipedia.org)
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…and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for reasons of "advanced age and ill health."

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45 years ago today Rebecca Clarke, a British classical composer and violist, died. She became one of the first female professional orchestral players in London. (en.wikipedia.org)
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90 years ago today Nana Mouskouri, a Greek singer and politician, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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On this day in 1986: Li Wenliang was born, one of the first Chinese doctors to sound the alarm on Covid19 and to die from the disease. (static.mstdn.science)
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His Wikipedia article

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40 years ago today the album Rattlesnakes by the Scottish 1980s band Lloyd Cole and The Commotions was released. (i.ibb.co)
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40 years ago today British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher escaped an attempt on her life when an Irish Republican Army bomb exploded at a hotel in Brighton, England, killing five people. (i.ibb.co)
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A gaping hole in the 5th floor level in the facade of the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England on Oct. 12, 1984, following a bomb explosion. Britain’s Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and most of her 22 member cabinet were staying at the hotel for their party’s conference. The windows of Mrs. Thatcher’s rooms were blown out in the blast and the bathroom of her suite were badly damaged. (AP Photo/Dave Caulkin)

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225 years ago today Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin became the first woman to make a parachute descent, falling 900 metres (3,000 ft) in the gondola of a hot air balloon. (en.wikipedia.org)
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50 years ago today the album Paper Money by the American hard rock / heavy metal band Montrose was released. (i.ibb.co)
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105 years ago today Douglas Albert Munro, a United States Coast Guardsman who was posthumously decorated with the Medal of Honor for an act of "extraordinary heroism" during World War II, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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680 years ago today Mary of Waltham, Duchess of Brittany, daughter of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault, and wife of John IV, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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70 years ago today David Lee Roth, lead singer in Van Halen, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today John Entwistle, bassist in The Who, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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70 years ago today Scott Bakula, who played Captain Jonathan Archer of the Star Trek television series entitled Star Trek: Enterprise, was born. (upload.wikimedia.org)
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150 years ago today the Universal Postal Union, then known as the General Postal Union, was established with the signing of the Treaty of Bern to unify disparate postal services and regulations… (en.wikipedia.org)
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…so that international mail could be exchanged easily.

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50 years ago today Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist, humanitarian, and member of the Nazi Party, died. He is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust… (en.wikipedia.org)
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…by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

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614 years ago today the Prague astronomical clock was first mentioned (en.wikipedia.org)
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Quite a while.

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50 years ago today Harry Carney, an American 1930s-70s Jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and composer in Duke Ellington Orchestra, died. (en.wikipedia.org)
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