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History Streak #44 answers
October 27, 2026 · Starting event: The TV series Married... with Children first airs (1987)
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1244Politics
The crown of Aragon and the crown of Castile agree in the Treaty of Almizra on the limits of their respective expansion into al-Andalus
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1452
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1541Politics
Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII
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1701Birth
Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist, is born
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1739War
Start of the Battle of Porto Bello between British and Spanish forces during the War of Jenkins' Ear
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1817
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1875
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1880War
The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan is routed by the British at the Battle of Kandahar, ending the Second Anglo-Afghan War
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1895Invention
German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon
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1920
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1923
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1941
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1973
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1987
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1991
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1992
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1995Transport
A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students
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1996Disaster
The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island
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2015
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2016
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2024