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History Streak #35 answers
October 18, 2026 · Starting event: Lord Clydesdale and David McIntyre undertook the first successful flight over Mount Everest (1933)
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286 BC
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490War
Battle of Adda: The Goths under Theodoric the Great and his ally Alaric II defeat the forces of Odoacer on the Adda River, near Milan
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1077
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1697
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1746Birth
Gaspard Monge, French mathematician, inventor of descriptive geometry and father of differential geometry, is born
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1853History
Solomon Northup regained his freedom after having been sold into slavery in the American South; his memoir Twelve Years a Slave later became a bestseller
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1859
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1872
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1892Religion
The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky premiers in Saint Petersburg, Russia
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1903Sport
The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team
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1933TransportStarting event
Lord Clydesdale and David McIntyre undertook the first successful flight over Mount Everest
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1940Politics
After evading Vichy French and Francoist Spanish authorities, Belgian prime minister Hubert Pierlot arrived in London, marking the beginning of the Belgian government in exile
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1945War
World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for less than 40 hours
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1972
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1978Politics
Tuvalu adopted its national flag the day the country gained independence
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1989Disaster
Typhoon Sarah dissipated after causing extensive damage along an erratic path across the Western Pacific, killing 71 in Taiwan, the Philippines, and the Gotō Islands
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1994
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1999History
Professional wrestler Owen Hart died immediately before a World Wrestling Federation match after dropping 70 feet (21 m) onto the ring during a botched entrance
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2011
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2016