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October 4, 2020

5th October 1970: PBS, the national Public Broadcasting Service in the United States, was launched

With 80% of all American television households watching at least one PBS program each year, it has been consistently rated the most-trusted national institution in the United States according to Roper Opinion Research ...
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Published on October 04, 2020 19:05

October 3, 2020

4th October 1927: Work begins on the USA’s Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota

Washington’s face was the first to be completed, seven years after work began. In July 1939 Roosevelt was the final likeness to be ...
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Published on October 03, 2020 19:05

October 2, 2020

3rd October 1993: The Black Hawk Down incident during the Battle of Mogadishu

During the operation, two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down and 19 Americans lost their lives, while at least 200 Somali militiamen were killed as well as hundreds of ...
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Published on October 02, 2020 19:05

September 30, 2020

1st October 1957: The phrase ‘In God We Trust’ appears on U.S. paper currency for the first time

The first printed note to feature ‘In God We Trust’ was the updated one-dollar silver certificate that entered circulation on 1 October ...
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Published on September 30, 2020 19:05

September 29, 2020

30th September 1935: The Hoover Dam is dedicated by Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Hoover Dam was known as the Boulder Dam at the ...
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Published on September 29, 2020 19:05

September 28, 2020

29th September 1938: The Munich Conference agrees the Nazi annexation of the Sudetenland

On the 29th September 1938, Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini and Édouard Daladier reached an agreement on the Nazi annexation of the Sudetenland areas of ...
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Published on September 28, 2020 19:05

September 27, 2020

28th September 1781: The Siege of Yorktown begins in the American Revolutionary War

The Siege of Yorktown was the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War in North ...
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Published on September 27, 2020 19:05

September 25, 2020

26th September 1960: Kennedy and Nixon take part in their first televised debate

The first United States presidential debate took place between John F. Kennedy and Richard ...
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Published on September 25, 2020 19:05

September 22, 2020

23rd September 1949: President Truman announces the USSR’s first nuclear test

‘The eventual development of this new force by other nations was to be expected. This probability has always been taken into account by ...
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Published on September 22, 2020 19:05

September 19, 2020

20th September 1973: Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in the ‘Battle of the Sexes’ tennis match

Female tennis player Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs, a former World No. 1 men’s player, in the ‘Battle of the ...
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Published on September 19, 2020 19:05