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October 5th, 1945: Hollywood Bloody Friday. A six-month strike by over ten thousand members of the Conference of Studio Unions (representing such jobs as set carpenters, painters, cartoonists, and other crafts) turns violent when the clash with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, who had been scabs. 25 people were injured.

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A bit of December 2nd history…

1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of France in Paris

1823 - US President Monroe declares his “Monroe Doctrine” a US foreign policy regarding Latin America

1845 - Manifest Destiny: US President Polk announces to Congress that the US should aggressively expand into the West (pictured)

1942 - World’s 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction occurs in Chicago   Pile-1; world’s 1st nuclear reactor

1960 - Paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey discovers 1.4 million year old Homo erectus in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

1971 - United Arab Emirates forms and declares independence from UK

1976 - Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba

2014 - Stephen Hawking claims that Artificial Intelligence could be a “threat to mankind” and spell the end of the human race 

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October 4th, 1951: Henrietta Lacks dies of cancer.

Henrietta Lacks’ cancer was the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line. HeLa cells are incredibly important in scientific research around the world. However, they were taken and used without permission, and the cell line is now incredibly lucrative while Lacks’ family saw none of the profit.

momentsinhistory:

A bit of December 1st history…

1824 - US House of Representatives begins to decide outcome of election deadlock between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson - Adams wins

1913 - Ford Motor Company institutes world’s 1st moving assembly line for the Model T Ford

1943 - At the end of the Tehran Conference, the Big Three (Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt) agree that the invasion of Normandy should take place in May 1944

1953 - Hugh Hefner publishes 1st edition of Playboy magazine, featuring Marilyn Monroe as the magazines centerfold

1955 - Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Alabama (pictured) 

1998 - Exxon announces a $73.7 billion USD deal to buy Mobil, creating Exxon-Mobil, the worlds largest company

2016 - UN admits its peacekeepers were responsible for the cholera epidemic in Haiti in 2010 that killed 30,000

2019 - Earliest traceable patient, a 55 year old man, develops symptoms of a novel coronavirus, Covid-19, in Wuhan, China  

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Several Circles (1926) by Vassily Kandinsky. Oil on canvas.

momentsinhistory:

A bit of November 30th history…

1016 - Cnut the Great, King of Denmark, claims the English throne after the death of Edmund ‘Ironside’

1487 - The 1st German Beer Purity Law is passed in Munich, stating that beer should be brewed from only 3 ingredients - water, malt, and hops

1876 - Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann find the gold Mask of Agamemnon at Mycenae, the Mona Lisa of prehistory (pictured)

1982 - “Thriller” studio album by Michael Jackson is released 

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October 3rd, 1952: The United Kingdom officially becomes the world’s third nuclear power after testing a weapon in the Montebello Islands, Western Australia.

The Montebello Islands are now a park, though tourists are advised to limit visits to affected areas to a max of 1 hour per day. The area is also home to one of Australia’s best oil and natural gas drilling regions. The islands are also an important environment for several endangered species.

momentsinhistory:

A bit of November 29th history…

1877 - US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the 1st time

1910 - 1st US patent for inventing the traffic light system is issued

1935 - Physicist Erwin Schrodinger publishes his famous thought experiment  “Schrodinger’s Cat”, a paradox that illustrates the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics (pictured)

1963 - LBJ set up Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of JFK

1972 - Co-founder of Atari, Nolan Bushnell releases Pong, the 1st commercially successful video game

2019 - Wood fragment believed to be from Jesus’ manger returned to Bethlehem after 1400 years by Pope Francis 

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October 2nd, 1890: American comedian Groucho Marx is born.

momentsinhistory:

A bit of November 28th history…

1717 - Blackbeard attacks and captures a French merchant slave ship, which he renames as his flagship the “Queen Anne’s Revenge” (pictured)

1720 - Anne Bonny and Mary Read are tried, found guilty of pirating, and sentenced to death in Jamaica; although their discovered pregnancies win them stays of execution

1814 - The Times of London 1st printed by automatic, steam powered presses - makes newspapers available to a mass audience

1893 - Women vote in a national election for 1st time in the world in New Zealand

1895 - America’s 1st auto race organized by the “Chicago Times-Herald”; 6 cars, 55 miles, Frank Duryea wins averaging 7 mph

1994 - Convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by fellow inmate in Wisconsin

2016 - “Hamilton” set new record for most money earned in a week on Broadway - $3.3 million