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History Streak #15 answers
September 28, 2026 · Starting event: Pink Floyd record their groundbreaking film, Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii at the Amphitheatre of Pompeii (1971)
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1381War
Peasants' Revolt: In England, rebels from Kent and Essex, led by Wat Tyler and Jack Straw, meet at Blackheath. There the rebels are encouraged by a sermon, by renegade priest John Ball
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1714Politics
George I, the new King of Great Britain and Ireland, arrives in Britain for the first time in his life, after having departed Hannover and sailing from the Netherlands
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1880Birth
Helen Keller, American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar, is born
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1919
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1936Politics
The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King Edward VIII, following the death of his father, George V, at Sandringham House
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1939History
Al Capone is released from Terminal Island, due to deteriorating health caused by syphilis
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1946War
U.S. President Harry S. Truman delivers Proclamation 2714, which officially ends hostilities in World War II
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1954
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1964Books
The first volume of Ian Fleming's children's novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang was published posthumously
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1970Music
American rock singer Janis Joplin is found dead of an overdose, age 27, in her hotel room in Hollywood
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1971FilmStarting event
Pink Floyd record their groundbreaking film, Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii at the Amphitheatre of Pompeii
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2006History
Australian conservationist Steve Irwin is fatally stung in the heart by a stingray while filming an underwater documentary
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2021Sport
Max Verstappen won his first Formula One World Championship and the first for a Dutch driver, driving for Red Bull Racing at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix