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1963: The British spy film From Russia with Love premiered in London; the second film in
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fiction in our quiz about films.]

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Featured Event
1845

Founding of the U.S. Naval Academy

To improve the then-unsatisfactory methods of instructing midshipmen, George Bancroft—

historian, educator, and secretary of the navy—founded the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis,
Maryland, on this day in 1845.

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Featured Biography
Giuseppe Verdi

Italian composer

Born

October 9, 1813 or October 10, 1813

Le Roncole, Italy

Died

January 27, 1901

Milan, Italy

© Juulijs/Fotolia

1969

Brett Favre

American football player

1950

Nora Roberts

American novelist

1930

Harold Pinter

British dramatist

1917

Thelonious Monk

American musician

1906
R.K. Narayan

Indian author

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2010

The Netherlands Antilles—formerly an autonomous part of the Kingdom of the

Netherlands consisting of a group of five islands in the Caribbean Sea—was officially
dissolved.Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about the Caribbean

1985

American filmmaker Orson Welles—who notably wrote, directed, produced, and acted in Citizen
Kane (1941), one of the most influential films of all time—died at age 70.Test your knowledge
of cinema

RKO Radio Pictures Inc.

1979
Canadian hockey player Wayne Gretzky made his NHL debut, with the Edmonton Oilers.How
much do you know about hockey?

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1973

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigned from office and pleaded no contest to the charge of
failing to report $29,500 in income while governor of Maryland.Take our quiz about U.S.
political scandals

© Bettmann/Corbis

1970
Fiji gained independence from Great Britain.Take our islands and archipelagos quiz

1969

American gridiron football player Brett Favre, who broke all the major NFL career passing

records as quarterback of the Green Bay Packers, was born.Sort fact from fiction in our quiz
about American football

PRNewsFoto/Sports Illustrated/AP Images

1963

The British spy film From Russia with Love premiered in London; the second film in the James
Bond franchise, it is considered one of the best in the series.Sort fact from fiction in our quiz
about films

© 1963 United Artists Corporation; photograph from a private collection

1956
The American classic Giant had its world premiere; the saga was especially notable for being the
last movie of James Dean, who died in a car accident shortly after filming was completed.Test
your knowledge of A-list actors

© 1956 Giant Productions, courtesy of Warner Bros.; photograph, Culver Pictures

1935

George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess opened on Broadway.Take our quiz about opera

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1917

American pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, among the first creators of modern jazz, was
born.Test your knowledge of music

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1911
A group of revolutionaries launched an uprising in Wuchang, China, which many regard as the
formal beginning of the Chinese Revolution, a nationalist democratic revolt that overthrew
the Qing dynasty.Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about China

1846

English astronomer William Lassell discovered Triton, the largest satellite of the

planet Neptune.How much do you know about the planets of the solar system?

NASA/JPL

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