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Today in History: October 4, Soviets launch Sputnik, spark the Space Age

Today in History: October 3, Germany reunifies after 45 years

Today in History: October 2, Marshall joins Supreme Court

Today in History: October 1, Las Vegas music festival shooting

Today in History: September 30, Berlin Airlift concludes

Today in History: September 29, Willie Mays makes “The Catch”

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Today in History: September 28, Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

Today in History: September 27, Taliban take power in Afghanistan

Today in History: September 26, Kennedy-Nixon presidential debate

Today in History: September 25, Military escorts Little Rock Nine into Central High

Today in History: September 24, Protesting NFL players take a knee

Today in History: September 23, Nixon’s ‘Checkers’ speech

Today in History: September 22, Lincoln issues preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

Today in History: September 21, Nairobi shopping mall attack

HFStival returns to DC this weekend: ‘People looked forward to it — it was like Christmas’

Today in History: September 20, Billie Jean King wins “Battle of the Sexes”

Today in History: September 19, state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II

Today in History: September 18, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies

Today in History: September 17, U.S. Constitution signed

Today in History: September 16, Cherokee Strip Land Run

Today in History: September 15, Birmingham church bombing

Today in History: September 14, Roosevelt becomes youngest US president

Loudoun Co. courthouse named for civil rights attorney Charles Hamilton Houston

Today in History: September 7, Germany launches Blitz on UK