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🌟 Editor's Note
Happy Monday! It's November 2. Today we're exploring Cheerleading, the Balfour Declaration, the first internet-distributed computer worm, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Michael Jackson's Thriller, and more, all quick and to the point!
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🚀 Time Machine
-1875
Verney Camberon reached Benguela on Africa's east coast and became the first European to cross Africa's equator by sea.
-1898
Cheerleading began when Johnny Campbell cheered on the University of Minnesota football team.
-1917
British government proclaimed support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine in the Balfour Declaration.
-1930
Ras Tafari Makonnen was crowned as Haile Selassie I, the 225th Emperor of Ethiopia’s Solomonic Dynasty.
-1936
BBC began broadcasting high-definition TV from specially built studios at Alexandra Palace in North London.
-1949
The Netherlands recognized Indonesia as a sovereign state after the Round Table Conference in The Hague.
-1966
The Cuban Adjustment Act takes effect, allowing 123,000 Cubans to apply for permanent residence in the U.S.
-1983
Michael Jackson released the "Thriller" single worldwide.
-1983
President Ronald Reagan signed a bill designating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a federal holiday on the third Monday of January.
-1988
Morris worm, the first computer worm distributed over the internet, accidentally infected MIT, the Pentagon, and six universities.
-2000
International Space Station's first resident crew arrives. Expedition 1 marked the start of a new era of international space cooperation and continuous habitation in low Earth orbit.
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📸 Snapshot
Philippe Halsman took this famous surreal photo of Salvador Dalí in 1948. There was no Photoshop!
🗨️ Last Words
“I am not in the least afraid to die.”
