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🎂 Famous American Birthdays — October 19
• 1945 — John Lithgow
• 1966 — Jon Favreau
• 1970 — Chris Kattan
• 1962 — Evander Holyfield
• 1964 — Ty Pennington

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October 19

🕊️ 1983 — The U.S. Senate passes legislation establishing Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a federal holiday
🇨🇺 1960 — The United States announces a sweeping trade embargo against Cuba
📼 1985 — The first Blockbuster Video store opens in Dallas

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⚔️ 1781 — British forces under General Lord Charles Cornwallis formally surrender at Yorktown, Virginia
📜 1765 — The Stamp Act Congress adopts its Declaration of Rights and Grievances in New York City, challenging Britain's authority to impose taxes on the American colonies

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🎂 Famous Birthdays — October 18
• 1926—Chuck Berry
• 1935—Peter Boyle
• 1960—Jean-Claude Van Damme
• 1987—Zac Efron
• 1939—Mike Ditka

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America 250 ----- #291

October 18

🌊 1972 — The Clean Water Act becomes federal law after Congress overrides President Richard Nixon's veto
🚗 1933 — American inventor and visionary R. Buckminster Fuller files a patent application for his revolutionary Dymaxion Car

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🏔️ 1867 — The United States formally takes possession of Alaska from Russia
📚 1851 — Herman Melville's legendary novel Moby-Dick is first published
📏 1767 —Mason-Dixon Lineestablished. Originally intended to settle colonial boundary disputes

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🎂 Famous American Birthdays — October 17
• 1972—Eminem
• 1958—Alan Jackson
• 1971—Chris Kirkpatrick
• 1956—Dr. Mae Jemison, physician, engineer, and first African American woman to travel into space
• 1938—Evel Knievel

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October 17

🌎 1986 — President Ronald Reagan signs the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA)
📻 1919 — The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) is incorporated
🏫 1979 — President Jimmy Carter signs the Department of Education Organization Act

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⚖️ 1931 — Notorious Chicago gangster Al Capone is convicted of federal income tax evasion
🇺🇸 1777 — British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army to American forces at Saratoga, New York, following a decisive Revolutionary War campaign.

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🎂 Famous American Birthdays — October 16
• 1962—Flea, bassist and founding member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
• 1977—John Mayer
• 1758—Noah Webster
• 1946—Suzanne Somers, actress
• 1947—David Zucker, filmmaker

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America 250 ----- #289

October 16

🏨 1829 — The Tremont House. Considered one of the nation's first modern hotels
🚇 1943 — Chicago's first subway opens to the public
🏰 1923 — Walt Disney and his brother Roy establish the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in Hollywood, California

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🏛️ 1901 — President Theodore Roosevelt hosts educator and civil rights leader Booker T. Washington for dinner at the White House
📜 1854 — Abraham Lincoln delivers his famous Peoria Speech in Illinois, speaking out against the expansion of slavery into western territories.

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🎂 Famous American Birthdays — October 15
• 1943—Penny Marshall, actress
• 1959—Emeril Lagasse, celebrity chef
• 1953—Larry Miller, comedian
• 1953—Tito Jackson, musician
• 1924—Lee Iacocca

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America 250 ----- #288

October 15 — This Day in American History

✈️ 1939 — LaGuardia Airport is dedicated in New York City
📺 1951 — I Love Lucy premieres on CBS
🗽 1924 — President Calvin Coolidge designates the Statue of Liberty a national monument

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⚖️ 1914 — President Woodrow Wilson signs the Clayton Antitrust Act into law
🏛️ 1991 — The United States Senate confirms Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court

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🎂 Famous American Birthdays — October 14
• 1890—Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States
• 1939—Ralph Lauren
• 1978—Usher
• 1952—Harry Anderson
• 1994—Jared Goff

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October 14

🕊️ 1964 — MLK is announced as the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership in the American civil rights movement
✈️ 1947 —U.S. Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager becomes the first person officially recognized to break the sound barrier

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☢️ 1962 —the Cuban Missile Crisis begins
📺 1968 — Astronauts aboard Apollo 7 conduct the first live television broadcast from an American spacecraft
📜 1774 — The First Continental Congress adopts the Declaration and Resolves, outlining the rights of the American colonies

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🎂 Famous American Birthdays — October 13
• 1941 — Paul Simon
• 1947 — Sammy Hagar
• 1962 — Jerry Rice
• 1967 — Kate Walsh
• 1942 — Jerry Jones

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October 13

🏀 1967 — The American Basketball Association (ABA) begins its inaugural season
😷 1914 —patent for safety hood and smoke protector, an early respiratory protection device often described as a predecessor to the modern gas mask

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📸 1860 — 1st U.S. Aeriel Photo taken
🏛️ 1792 — The cornerstone of the White House is laid in Washington, D.C.
⚓ 1775 — The birth of the U.S. Navy