This Day in History Class

On this day in 1898, American troops raised the U.S. flag over Puerto Rico. 

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On this day in 1943, after a year of grueling labor, the two sides of the Burma Railway were joined at the Konkoita POW camp in Thailand.

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On this day in 1869, a 10-foot-tall stone giant was unearthed on a farm in Cardiff, New York.

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On this day in 1860, James Wallace Black took a photo of Boston from a hot air balloon 1,200 feet in the air.

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On this day in 1979, Douglas Adams published his comedic sci-fi masterpiece "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

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On this day in 1865, Paul Bogle led hundreds of Black Jamaican protestors in the Morant Bay Rebellion.

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On this day in 1865, American inventor John Wesley Hyatt received a patent for an imitation ivory pool ball. 

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Show Info: Finally, your daily puzzle fix—in audio form! Every day, in 10 minutes or less, New York Times bestselling author A.J. Jacobs and his celebrity guests will puzzle–and laugh–their way through new spins on old puzzle favorites, like anagrams and palindromes, as well as quirky originals such as “Ask Chat GPT” and audio rebuses. Plus, Chief Puzzle Officer Greg Pliska joins A.J. each week to present new puzzles from the Puzzle Lab. And there’s a daily Extra Credit Puzzler for our Puzzlers at home. (Answers revealed in the following episode.) 

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On this day in 1992, a meteorite the size of a bowling ball crashed into a parked Chevy Malibu in a suburb of Peekskill, New York.

Che Guevara was executed on this day in 1967.

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On this day in 1945, William Sianis allegedly put a curse on the Chicago Cubs after he and his pet goat were ejected from Wrigley Field.

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