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October 24

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Luciano Berio

FEATURED EVENT

1945

United Nations established

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2017: American musician Fats Domino , who was one of the first rock-and-roll stars and who helped define the New Orleans sound, died at age 89. [Take our quiz about rock and roll.]

2005: African American civil rights activist Rosa Parks—whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus to a white man in 1955 helped ignite the American civil rights movement —died at age 92. [Read about 10 milestones in U.S. civil rights history.]

2003: Supersonic passenger service ended as British Airways flew its last Concorde flight; Air France had ceased similar operations in May. [ How much do you know about the history of flight?]

1992: The Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Atlanta Braves to become the first team not based in the United States to win the World Series. [ Test your knowledge of baseball.]

1970: Salvador Allende's election as the first Marxist president of Chile was confirmed. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about Chile.]

1962: The American Cold War thriller The Manchurian Candidate was released in American theatres, and it was a major hit, especially noted for the performance by Angela Lansbury. [Take our film buff quiz.]

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