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History Streak #29 answers
October 12, 2026 · Starting event: The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21 (1901)
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184 BC
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1309War
Reconquista: Aragonese forces led by King James II landed on the coast of Almería, beginning an ultimately unsuccessful siege of the city, then held by the Emirate of Granada
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1579Exploration
Explorer Francis Drake landed in a region of present-day California, naming it New Albion and claiming it for England
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1685
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1791History
The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly
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1814
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1824War
The Marquis de Lafayette, the last surviving French general of the American Revolutionary War, arrives in New York and begins a tour of 24 states
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1861Politics
Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America
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1869
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1901TransportStarting event
The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21
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1926History
Harry Houdini's last performance takes place at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit
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1934
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1957Disaster
KLM Flight 844 crashes off the Schouten Islands in present day Indonesia (then Netherlands New Guinea), killing 58 people
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1961Space
Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a dog and a human dummy, and demonstrating that the Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight
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1963
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1975
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1979Politics
Female workers of YH Trading in South Korea held a sit-in protest in response to the company's unilateral shutdown
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1990History
Anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela, having been a political prisoner for 27 years, was released from Victor Verster Prison near Paarl, South Africa
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2013