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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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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On this day in 1974, American Dave Kunst became the first known person to circumnavigate the globe on foot.

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On this day in 1915, President Woodrow Wilson established the Dinosaur National Monument to protect one of the world’s richest known fossil beds.

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On this day in 1942, Nazi Germany successfully fired the world’s first long-range guided ballistic missile.

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