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Good morning! It’s Saturday, October 31. Today, we're diving into the Protestant Reformation, Houdini's death, Nevada becoming a state, the Spanish Flu, Bitcoin's birth, and much more!
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🚀 Time Machine
-1517
Martin Luther sent his Ninety-Five Theses to Albert of Brandenburg, Archbishop of Mainz, sparking the Protestant Reformation.
-1541
Michelangelo finishes painting "The Last Judgment" on the Sistine Chapel altar wall in Vatican City.
-1876
The Great Bengal Cyclone ravaged British India, now Bangladesh, killing an estimated 200,000 people.
-1918
Spanish flu killed 21,000 people in the U.S. in a single week.
-1926
Harry Houdini, the greatest magician and escape artist, died of peritonitis in a Detroit hospital.
-1950
Earl Lloyd, 21, became the first African American to play in an NBA game for the Washington Capitols.
-1961
Stalin's embalmed body was removed from Lenin's tomb five years after Khrushchev denounced Stalinism at the 20th Party Congress.
-1964
Barbra Streisand's "People" album hits #1 and remains there for five weeks.
-1987
American jockey Chris Antley became the first rider to win nine races in one day. (Four at Aqueduct, five at Meadowlands)
-1997
Violet Palmer, 33, became the first woman to officiate an NBA game.
-2008
Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious, anonymous inventor, released the Bitcoin white paper, introducing the cryptocurrency to the world.
-2011
The world population reached 7 billion, according to the United Nations.
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📸 Snapshot
Hospitalized soldiers with Spanish flu at Camp Funston, Fort Riley, Kansas, 1918
🗨️ Last Words
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