The Wednesday, September 23, 2026 Edition
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The estimated crowd at Calvin Harris' DJ set in São Paulo — the largest attendance ever recorded for a set by a single DJ, earning him a Guinness World Record. That's roughly the entire population of Philadelphia turning out for one performance.
Source: Billboard
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Today: Bruce Springsteen celebrates his 77th birthday.
- 1806Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis, completing their expedition across the American West
- 1846Astronomer Johann Galle discovers Neptune, the first planet found by mathematical prediction
- 1932The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is proclaimed, unifying the regions of Hejaz and Nejd
- 1949President Truman announces the Soviet Union has detonated its first atomic bomb
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How scientists are racing to spot the early warning signs of a catastrophic collapse of the Atlantic's great ocean current.
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