🌟 Editor's Note
Happy Friday! It’s October 30. Today we're talking about Jane Austen's first novel, Shaw's "Mrs. Warren's Profession", the October Manifesto, H. G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds," Jam Master Jay's murder, and more. As always, swift, precise, and mindful!
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🚀 Time Machine
-1340
King Afonso IV of Portugal and King Alfonso XI of Castile defeated Moroccan Sultan Abu al-Hasan in the last Marinid invasion of the Iberian Peninsula.
-1811
Jane Austen published her first novel, “Sense and Sensibility,” anonymously. The British public only knew that it was written: "by a lady."
-1899
Boers defeat the British at the Battle of Ladysmith, leading to the Siege of Ladysmith in Natal.
-1905
Tsar Nicholas II granted civil liberties and accepted the first Duma (Parliament) in the "October Manifesto“.
-1905
George Bernard Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession, which dealt frankly with prostitution, premiered at New York's Garrick Theater and faced police interruption and arrests.
-1917
The British government approves the Balfour Declaration.
-1918
Great Britain and the Ottoman Empire signed an armistice ending Ottoman involvement in the First World War.
-1938
Orson Welles narrated a radio broadcast of H. G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds," causing mass panic.
-1973
The Bosphorus Bridge opened in Istanbul, Turkey, connecting Europe and Asia for the first time.
-1974
Muhammad Ali, 32, regains the heavyweight title using the "rope-a-dope" tactic in "The Rumble in the Jungle" in Kinshasa, Zaire.
-2002
Jam Master Jay, DJ for the pioneering hip-hop trio Run-DMC, was shot and killed in his Queens recording studio.
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📸 Snapshot
Times Square, New York City, USA, circa 1938
🗨️ Last Words
“Hey, let's go for a drive.”
