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History Streak #45 answers
October 28, 2026 · Starting event: Édouard Manet paints The Railway (1873)
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627War
At the Battle of Nineveh, the Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeated the forces of Sasanian emperor Khosrow II, commanded by Rhahzadh, near present-day Mosul, Iraq
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1492Religion
Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile sign the Alhambra Decree, ordering all Jews to convert to Christianity or be expelled from the country
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1519Politics
Zhu Chenhao declared Ming emperor Zhengde to be a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion
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1789Politics
The Bastille, a fortress and prison in Paris, was stormed by a crowd during the flashpoint of the French Revolution
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1797
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1831
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1856History
John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas
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1873
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1886War
After more than 25 years of fighting against the United States Army and the armed forces of Mexico, Geronimo of the Chiricahua Apache surrendered at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona
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1894
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1903
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1906
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1937History
The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, the precursor of the United Steel Workers of America, had a major success when it signed a collective-bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel
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1953Medicine
Jonas Salk announced the successful test of his polio vaccine on a small group of adults and children
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1957Disaster
An explosion at the Soviet nuclear reprocessing plant Mayak released 74 to 1,850 PBq of radioactive material
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1969Tech
The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet
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1985
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1999
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2005Music
Arctic Monkeys releases the song "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor"
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2009
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2014Transport
A Taiwanese man carried out a stabbing spree on a Taipei Metro train, killing four people and injuring 24 others