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History Streak #18 answers
October 1, 2026 · Starting event: Pierre Boulle publishes Planet of the Apes (1963)
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1009Religion
First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg
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1291
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1593Books
Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe
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1768Politics
James Otis Jr. offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court
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1796Politics
The Dutch East India Company is nationalized by the Batavian Republic
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1861Landmarks
The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed
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1883History
The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey
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1890
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1892Birth
Pearl S. Buck, Chinese women Nobel Prize winner, author, teacher, missionary, is born
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1917War
First World War: Troops of the British Empire defeated Ottoman forces at the Battle of Rafa on the Sinai–Palestine border
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1941War
In the first airborne operation undertaken by the British military, a small force of paratroopers landed near Calitri, Italy, to destroy an aqueduct
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1942History
The American tanker Dixie Arrow is torpedoed and sunk off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, by the German U-boat U-71
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1948Transport
The British railway network is nationalized to form British Railways
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1962Disaster
American Airlines Flight 1 crashes into Jamaica Bay in New York, killing 95
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1963
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1980Music
Queen releases the album Flash Gordon – Original Soundtrack Music by Queen
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1983
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1997
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2000
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2018
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2021