On this day in 1307, a legend was born when a Swiss farmer and skilled hunter named William Tell shot an apple off his son’s head with a crossbow.

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On this day in 1968, football fans got an unwelcome surprise when a televised game between the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders was interrupted in its final minutes by a made-for-TV movie adaptation of Heidi.

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On this day in 1979, Paul McCartney released his quirky seasonal classic “Wonderful Christmastime.”

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On this day in 1953, Ada White of the Indiana Textbook Commission alleged that textbook writers were presenting the story of Robin Hood in a pro-communist light.

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On this day in 1666, English diarist and politician Samuel Pepys wrote the first known description of a blood transfusion.

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On this day in 1974, nuclear whistle-blower Karen Silkwood was killed in a one-car crash under mysterious circumstances.

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On this day in 1946, the controversial Disney movie Song of the South premiered at the Fox Theater in Atlanta, Georgia.

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On this day in 1933, at age 18, jazz legend Billie Holiday released her first hit song, “Riffin’ the Scotch”.

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On this day in 1903, Alabama native Mary Anderson was awarded a patent for her early design of windshield wipers.

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On this day in 1983, Alfred “Freddy” Heineken, CEO of the Heineken brewery, was abducted at gunpoint outside the company’s headquarters in Amsterdam.

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